# how to generate documents when platform events are fired

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{% step %}
**Create Custom Platform Event**

* Setup → Platform Events → New Platform Events
* Fill out required fields, save
* Add Custom Field(s)
  * For example, add one for the base record ID
    {% endstep %}

{% step %}
**Set up the process to fire Platform Events**

* In Flow, use the Create Records element to do so
  * Custom Platform Events end in the suffix “\_\_e”
* In Apex, insert Platform Events like any custom object
  {% endstep %}

{% step %}
**Set up a Platform-Event Triggered Flow**

* Specify this to run when your Custom Platform Event is fired
* Add Document Generation as an Apex Action in here
  {% endstep %}
  {% endstepper %}


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