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I'm trying to invoke a process builder process on all Contacts related to an Account, when an Activity (Event) related to that Account is updated.

I know I can update the full set of contact records themselves, for all child Contacts of the Account, using the Update Records action:

Action Type: Update Records

Record Type: [Event].Account ID.Contacts <--this represents all Contacts of the related Account

...but can I pass all the Account's Contacts as the Starting Object(s) for an invoked process? It seems I can only pass a single reference as the Starting Object:

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When trying to define the reference for the SObject variable, I navigate a similar UI as when I selected the "Record Type" (record(s) to update) for the Update Records Action, but I can only select parent objects of [Event].Account ID, and [Event].Account ID.Contacts isn't selectable.

I realize I could create a custom "Run Update" field on the Contact object, and update this flag using the Update Records action from the Event-triggered process, then have this Run Update field trigger a process on each Contact record individually, but this seems sloppy. Is there any way to invoke the process on a set of objects like this, without this weird workaround and without Apex?

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I think you can just pass the Event as sObject reference and your Update Records process will take care of updates of all contacts, since Record Type is [Event].Account ID.Contacts.

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  • The problem is that I need to run a process on each Contact, not just make an update on the Contact records. – Chris Lukes Nov 18 '16 at 21:58
  • you can use flows – Santanu Boral Nov 18 '16 at 22:00
  • The use-case is that I actually need to update a sub-set of Campaign Members on each of the Contact records, so I need to run a process with the Contact as the SObject in order to access these child records of the Contacts. I can't reference the Campaign Members from the Event-triggered process since they are not considered to be child records of the Account (i.e., [Event].Account ID.CampaignMembers isn't available), and I can't refer to these "grandchild" records via something like [Event].Account ID.Contacts.CampaignMembers. – Chris Lukes Nov 18 '16 at 22:06
  • Okay. I guess I was wondering if flows is the only way to achieve this. Thanks. – Chris Lukes Nov 18 '16 at 22:07

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