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Entries by Alex Edelstein
From Kanav Khurana at Nextview: 5 Learnings from a Flow State
Useful Flow Tips. Check it out!
From Ragan Walker and CapTech: Easy Deduping with the new ‘Extract Strings from Collection’ Action
CapTech has been on fire lately with their contributions to the community, most notably with their extremely feature rich CSV Exporter. In the latest Collection Actions v1.17, they’ve upgraded Extract Strings from Collections by adding an optional Dedupe capability, as well as the following enhancements: Supports extracting + deduping of multi-select picklist fields Returns a […]
Summer ’20 Preview: New Lookup 3.0 with Custom Property Editors and ‘Add New Record’
If you have a Summer ’20 org (Preview Releases available now, Sandbox Preview on 5/30), you can try out this cool new Lookup component. On the Flow screen, it provides searching, pills support, and an optional ‘Add New Record’ capability: When the user clicks Add New Record, a modal record form is shown (using the […]
Convert Multiselect String Output to a String Collection
Multiselect fields output choices in a semi-colon delimited sting: apples;oranges;strawberries Flows often need these strings to be converted into a collection of strings that can be looped over or passed to an action. The new ConvertToStringCollection builds on the previous ConvertCSVToStringCollection. It lets you pass in a delimiter (a fancy word for “the character that’s […]
Newly Package-Installable: Formula Builder, Expression Builder, and Formula Evaluator
There is finally a 1-click package install for what may be the most ambitious Flow extension yet. It starts with a Flow Action called Evaluate Formula that accepts formula strings and evaluates them. You can feed this action with two in-screen builders: Expression Builder and Formula Builder Check it out here.
Get Field Information- Get Fields for an Object
Get Field Information is a simple action that takes the name of an object (e.g. ‘Contact’) and returns information about all of its fields in a collection, including name, label, type, required. The data is returned in a collection of a custom datatype called a FieldDescriptor that can be manipulated declaratively in Flow. That means […]
Get Great Multiselect with Dual List Box 2.0
We have a substantial update to the Dual List Box component. It is an enhanced version with custom property editor and requires a Summer ’20 org. The custom property editor make it easier to configure and highlights the four different types of data sources you can use: Check it out here.
Flow Masterclass: Create Declarative Flow Actions with Metaprogramming
Flow’s ability to directly use custom data types gives it the ability to work with data structured as apex objects. This is extremely powerful but still requires that the data structure exist in the form of an Apex Class. Usually that’s not a problem. But some interesting use cases involve the creation of lots of […]
Get Information About A Flow with GetFlowMetadata
The Automation Components repo that was published last week features a useful action that I don’t think I ever created a blog post for. GetFlowMetadata (what’s it’s called in the Automation Components repo) provides metadata about a Flow. Just provide it with a name OR a recordId and it returns: Install Install this from the […]