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Does anybody know why the "How to Run the Flow" option is not available in Record-Triggered Flows? This flow should run in System Context Without Sharing—Access All Data. Currently we have to set Modify All permission to user's profile to make sure this flow runs.

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Record triggered flows always run in system mode without sharing, so it is not configurable on the flow itself. The same applies to the Scheduled flow and Process Builder

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I will reach out to the Salesforce team that owns this feature to have this information added to our documentation too and will update this thread as I have more inputs.

UPDATE: The documentation has been updated to reflect Record-triggered : System, without sharing

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  • The Salesforce documentation still makes no mention of Record-Triggered flows.
    – Morgan Marchese
    Commented Nov 16, 2021 at 22:18
  • Apologies. This got lost. I'm checking now ....
    – Swetha Maddali
    Commented Nov 17, 2021 at 12:12
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    @Swetha The documentation still doesn't clarify record-triggered flows. As Jason Kuzmak mentions in his answer, we are still getting Flow failures that indicate the flow is running in user context and not system context.
    – David Cheng
    Commented Feb 9, 2022 at 17:27
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    Documentation says Record-triggered System, without sharing
    – Scott Pelak
    Commented Mar 21, 2022 at 19:58
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    This is super frustrating. Documentation still says "Record-triggered" flows run in "System context without sharing" even though that is clearly not correct. help.salesforce.com/s/…
    – Mike Paisner
    Commented Aug 11, 2022 at 17:12
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At time of writing this, it doesn't seem like it's currently possible to run record-triggered flows in system mode. You can demonstrate this by creating a flow that updates another record the user does not have edit rights to. That user will receive an insufficient privileges error when triggering the flow.
This is something I found out after recreating several of my Process Builder flows in Flow Designer. I'm assuming this is something they'll change before they do away with Process Builder.

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  • For reference: the documentation has been updated to state that record-triggered flows run in system context.
    – David Cheng
    Commented Mar 13 at 16:31
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For anyone still running into this issue - You can call an autolaunched flow from within your record triggered flow. Autolaunched flows can be run as System Mode No Sharing. Instead of having your record-triggered flow running with overpowered permissions, create a subflow for the absolute minimum required work. You can pass info in and out of this subflow. This is a good thing.

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