@Marvin How to pass event payload to an automation?

i think you're doing it right, but you need to wrap that in double quotes

Hmm the flow doesn't start if i do that and this is my event structure:

{

"id": "807339c0-17e5-4ad4-aa0a-a8b2eb187862",

"event": "Trigger direct freight search",

"occurred": "2025-10-14T13:47:05.145Z",

"payload": {

"tab_id": "1",

"tenant_ref": "2",

"search_hash": "3",

"session_hash": "4",

"search_criteria": "whatever"

},

"received": "2025-10-14T13:48:00.308Z",

"related": [],

"resource": {

"prefect.resource.id": "custom.api.trigger",

"prefect.resource.role": "api"

}

}

if you want to share your trigger definition and a raw event as visible from the Event Feed, i can probably tell why it might not be firing

This is the trigger definition:

{

"type": "event",

"match": {

"prefect.resource.id": [

"custom.api.trigger"

]

},

"match_related": {},

"after": [],

"expect": [

"Trigger direct freight search"

],

"for_each": [],

"posture": "Reactive",

"threshold": 1,

"within": 0

}

so

expect

should be something like

prefect.flow-run.Completed

ie it should be the event that you are `expect`ing to see

Yeap, that part works, i mean if i pass a dummy payload, i can trigger the flow by sending an event, so the match between event and flow works but i am not able to access the event's data, e.g. this payload successfully triggers and completes a flow:

does this help?

I magically made it work with 😅:

{

"payload": {{ event.payload | tojson }}

}

The UI for automations is a bit confusing and it would help a lot if there are more examples in the docs but thanks a lot for your time and help! 🙂 🙏

yep we should have another example in the docs for this! thanks for the feedback

@Nate That's very helpful, thanks for reacting so fast and updating the docs! prefect rocket