[Old]: Quick Choice 2.0 with a Custom Property Editor
Moved to Quick Choice.
Entries by Alex Edelstein
Summer ’20 Flow Preview
I’m very pleased to again be able to share upcoming new Flow functionality! Preview Orgs can be obtained to try out this functionality. Complete Flow Trigger Support We’ve been adding triggers to Flow for the last couple of releases, and Summer ’20 finishes the job by adding support to trigger Flows on both traditional Process […]
Import Data from CSV Files Using Salesforce Flow
You can now upload CSV data and turn it into Salesforce records with just a couple of Flow elements. This action is based on original work by Narender Singh, plus nice new improvements by Hijlko and Suraj Pillai. (Interested in exporting records to CSV? Check that out here) (Need a version of CSV import that […]
Quick Choice V1.3: New Outputs, a Test Class Fix
QuickChoice is an improved Picklist and Radio Buttons component for Flow screesn. V1.3 includes the following improvements: The test class utility MockHTTPResponseGenerator was renamed to eliminate conflicts with existing installations that use this utility New Output Attributes: allValues and allLabels New Output Attribute: selectedLabel allValues and allLabels These are two new string collection output attributes. […]
Execute SOQL V1.2: Handles Flow Dates Properly and works with Flow Schedule and Record Change Triggers
The Execute SOQL action takes a SOQL string and executes the query, returning the records that you specify. It comes packaged with a graphical SOQL Builder component that you can add to a flow screen to let your users create their own queries at runtime. New for V1.2 Previously if you tried to pass a […]
PREVIEW: Using Dynamic Types with Flow Screen Components
NOTE: This functionality requires a Summer ’20 org. (To sign up for prerelease Summer ’20 orgs, watch here for the link that will be made available). In Spring ’20, Flow added to its invocable action support the ability to use input and output attributes with generic types of SObject or SObject[]. This allows for the […]
Serialize Records to JSON and Deserialize JSON strings to Records
Neil Armstrong, a Flow ace in the Salesforce solution engineering corps, came by with a use case: I’m working on a Lambda function that can invoke flows via REST. Is there a way to pass in records? The REST API for Flow only accepts strings As Neil points out,the REST interface only supports string inputs. […]
Using Custom Screen Components with Conditional Field Visibility to Create Dependent Picklist Combos
This scenario is common and powerful: you have a Flow Lightning Screen Component on the screen. Perhaps its an out-of-the-box component like Address or Lookup, or maybe it’s a custom component like QuickChoice. You want to have another component on that screen use conditional visibility and make the visibility dependent on the value of the […]
Attention Flow Apex Developers: A Chance For Glory 1 :
Requesting: An apex action that converts a CSV file into a collection of records Looking for everlasting glory? Want to put Salesforce product managers into your debt? The library of invocable actions needs an action that takes an uploaded file Blob (presumably the Content Document created by the File Upload available in Flow) and the […]
Automate Junction Updates with GetChildCollection and GetLookupCollection
Peter Bender asked “What’s the best way with declarative automation to update the records on the other side of a junction object? For instance, if a change is made to an Opportunity, update a field on all Contacts related to that record via an OpportunityContactRole. “ The new Collection Actions capability in Spring ’20 provides an opportunity […]