With Winter ’23, it’s possible to send screen flows to a Slack user or channel, and enable them to run the flows without leaving Slack. There are two great use cases for enabling your screen flows to run in Slack: I you have users who spend time in Slack, they may want to have a […]
Here’s the Trail Map of Flow-centric Activities: The links don’t work in these images, but you can search for them here. For Flow Orchestration, focus on the following: How to Automate Any Business Process Do More with Less Using Automation and App Dev Interactive: Workflow Orchestration Supercharge Slack with Flow Actions and Orchestrator. Automate Your […]
Editor’s Note: This Guest Post was created by Alkymi. UnofficialSF occasionally showcases companies and products that work with Flow Flow Orchestration. Collaboration for the AI Era: The Data Action Layer. Seemingly every day we hear examples of Automation speeding up the business world in dramatic ways. Yet, hundreds of millions of documents, PDFs, Emails, Spreadsheets […]
This new ChangeOwner action provides advanced automation control over how related objects get handled when a records owner is changed. Flow already makes short work of changing the owner of a record; a single Update Record is all it takes. But elsewhere in Salesforce, there’s support for more sophisticated ownership change control. For example, when […]
Work Guide Plus (“WG+”) is a custom Work Guide component that you can add to record and home pages, similar to how the Orchestration Work Guide works. In addition to being able to display an individual work item, it can show a list of all the work items currently assigned to the running user. Consider […]
Interested in learning more about Flow Orchestration? You’ll find content in these sessions: How to Automate Any Business Process Do More with Less Using Automation and App Dev Interactive: Workflow Orchestration Supercharge Slack with Flow Actions and Orchestrator. Automate Your Workflows with Salesforce Flow and Slack Demystifying Automation for Service with Flow Orchestration Supercharge Your […]
UPDATE: I TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID THE NIGHT BEFORE DREAMFORCE, SO I WON’T BE AT THIS MEETUP. you might want to go anyways and see who shows, however. Alex here…. If you’re coming to Dreamforce, drop by and say hello and tell me how you’re using Salesforce Automation and what you want to see in […]
I love it when we get some of those official Salesforce Flow videos with those sweet, sweet production values. This latest set of bite-sized videos is a definite new Must Watch for new Flow creators, drilling down on specific topics like Scheduled Paths and Variables. The videos are short, but there’s some nice focus: one […]
I tend to get distracted and either miss or forget the meeting alerts that Google Calendar generates, and recent changes to Mac OS notification have made the problem worse, so I decided to build a louder, more insistent alerting application using Flow. When the flow runs, it queries my Google Calendar account every minute, and […]
Some while back, the Detect and Launch component opened up a new frontier by making it possible to pop a screen flow from a record page automatically when the record is edited or deleted. Andy Haas has extended this component with some valuable new capabilities. Previously, you could pop a screen flow either 1) when […]