Approval Processes: Unlock Records in Lightning

When a record is submitted into an approval process, it gets locked. Sometimes it’s desirable to unlock the record manually.

In Salesforce Classic, you do that via a button that shows up here:

This button is not currently available in Lightning Experience, but it’s easy to add a quick action button to a record page layout that unlocks locked records.

The quick action button will run the following Unlock Record flow, which includes two new Flow Actions: Unlock Record and Get Record Lock Status.

Get Record Lock status returns a boolean value that tells whether a provided record is locked. Unlock Record unlocks it.

Installation

Before Installing

Besides installing the package below, it’s very important to make sure this setting is turned on:

Installation

Install Unmanaged 1.0.0.1

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Install Unmanaged 1.0