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title: Fire Event action
description: Create a system event record in the Event \[sysevent\] table to be processed by a scheduled event handler. Pass event parameters using flow data.
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# Fire Event action

Create a system event record in the Event \[sysevent\] table to be processed by a scheduled event handler. Pass event parameters using flow data.

## Roles and availability

Available as a ServiceNow Core action. Users with the flow\_designer or admin role can add an action to a flow and define configuration details.

## Inputs

Provide a value for each input that your action needs. To add dynamic values, you can also select data pills using the pill picker.

-   **Event \[Event Registration\]**

    Data type: **Reference.Event Registration\[sysevent\_register\]**

    Event Registration record that defines the type of system event that you want to create.

-   **Record**

    Data type: **Record**

    Sys ID of the record that triggered the event.

-   **Table**

    Data type: **Table Name**

    Table containing the record that triggered the event.

-   **Parameter 1**

    Data type: **String**

    Text input to specify the first event parameter.

-   **Parameter 2**

    Data type: **String**

    Text input to specify the second event parameter.


## Outputs

This action has no outputs.

## Fire an incident escalated event

\[Omitted image "example-fire-event-action.png"\] Alt text: Field values used to fire the incident.escalated event.

This example creates an incident.escalated event when an incident record is updated to change the value of the Escalation field. The incident.escalated event expects the value of parameter 1 to be the current value of the Escalation field and parameter 2 to be the previous value of the Escalation field.

**Parent Topic:**[Workflow Studio actions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/workflow-studio/flow-actions.md)