Entries by Alex Edelstein
Send HTML Email 1.32 – Now Supports Bulkification
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New Flow Actions to Convert CSV Strings to String Collections, and Vice Versa
Some input parameters requires strings in one of two forms. Send Rich Email, for example, can take a list of string email addresses but can’t (currently) take a comma-separated-list. Two simple actions are presented here to convert data from one form to the other. Install Version 1.0 Unmanaged View Source source
Chris Van Der Merwe: Work with Business Hours via New Flow Actions
Chris has written the first of a promised series of actions that allow easy declarative, automated manipulation of Business Hours information. Check it out!
Using Serialization with Flow to Store Session Data and Enable Custom Resume
There are several techniques that can be applied to let users pause a flow and resume it. The simplest technique is to enable the Pause button in each of the flow’s screens, and then give the user access to the Paused Flows lightning component, from where they can resume. However, this is not always workable. […]
David Entremont: Increase Your Limits with the “Save Records Later” Action (Queueable Apex)
David Entremont has built a collection processor (a flow action designed to accept a collection of any type) that taps into Queueable Apex. If you use this to save your collection instead of Update Records or Create Records, it will be batched as a job to be run in the background. You can’t count on […]
Brian Kwong: “Flows Vs. Apex” Coding Duel
Amusing and informative. A great Flow intro for Apex developers, too. Check it out! Also check out the Flow and Apex wiki page
Bob Buzzard: Comparing The New Before-Save Flows to Apex Triggers
Excellent analysis. Check it out! And also checkout the Flow Triggers Wiki Page.
Extend Formula-building to Non-Admins with Formula Builder, Expression Builder and the ‘Evaluate Formula’ Action
Introduction You can use formulas in both Flow…. and Process Builder: But these tools only are available to admins building flows and processes. Recently we’ve been tinkering with rich flow-based applications where we wanted to let users who are running flows create formulas and see them put to use. These use cases tend to involve […]
Jen Lee: Building Modularity and Reuse into Flows, Permission Set Actions, and More
Video is up from Jen’s recent presentation at Cactusforce. I love how real her examples are. You can learn a lot of best practices from studying her Flows.