Target Persona: Developer If you’re working in Aura, you can insert the lighting:flow component. This is the same component that you can insert into pages in App Builder. However, Salesforce has not yet made lightning:flow available in LWC. Because LWC does not allow the embedding of Aura components, you can’t just add the lightning:flow component […]
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As you can see from this new post from Salesforce evangelism, Salesforce has officially recognized the work being done by the Flowhana, and in particular by Eric Smith (Quick Choice), Chris Van Der Merwe (Calculate Business Hours), David Entremont (Save Records Async), Enrico Murru (Evaluate Formula), and Andrii Kraiev (many of the actions). I worked with Philippe Ozil […]
With version 1.3.2 of Execute SOQL, you can now pass in queries like these in your Flow and get back records: SELECT LastName from Contact WHERE Id = ‘1123xxx333e3e’ Query on date literal:SELECT Id from Contact WHERE CreatedDate = LAST_n_DAYS:14 Kudos to new contributor Ragan Walker, part of the impressive operation at Captech Consulting. Keep […]
The community has done some great work bringing SOQL tools to Flow, but this recently published action from GravityLab demonstrates how you can use the recently shipped dynamic SObject support to allow for the first time, record searches in flow to leverage the same search Salesforce offers in the Omnisearch bar, complete with fuzzy logic […]
Many invocable actions make web callouts to endpoints via HTTP. However, Salesforce won’t allow callouts when a transaction is open. So if you want to make a callout in your flow, you need to make sure that any open transactions are closed. The recently added Scheduled Flows feature always opens a transaction when the schedule […]
RecordDetail 1.6 gets a bug fix related to record type and view mode Execute SOQL 1.3.1 gets fuller support for nested related queries: Primary Fix:Update regex for SOQL query string to to handled nested relationship queries after the WHERE clause; The code will first check to see if one of those queries exists and if […]
It’s not very hard to clone a collection of records in Flow. You’ve been able to do it in Assignment node for a couple of years, and the Copy Collection action in Collection Processors is extremely efficient. A lot of cloning, however, requires that child/related records get handled as well. This new DeepClone action can […]
Back on March 31, we put out the first Chance for Glory Narender Singh responded quickly with a great action that takes uploaded CSV data and converts it to records in Flow. A few commenters note how useful it would be to be able to go in the other direction, and Narender has written a […]
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