Tip #1240: Trigger another entity’s flows

I have a flow on Account, and sometimes I want to trigger that flow to run when a related contact is updated. Given we don’t have child Flows yet, how can I make a change to one record execute a flow on a different entity?

One trick that I’ve used on workflow that is also a solution for Flow is to update one of the fields that triggers the flow on the parent record. If you don’t want to change the value of the record, you can update the field with its current value.

This will trigger the flow to be run.