Entries by Alex Edelstein

From Christine Talbot: When You Use ‘Navigate Everywhere’ To Navigate to a New Record Page, You Can Now Set Initial Values Using Flow Formulas (or static text, or upstream merge fields, or….)

This enhancement adds a defaultVals attribute to the action. As Christine explains: When using DestinationType = ‘object’, and DestinationAction=’new’, passing a json string of ‘{FieldAPIName : value, FieldAPIName : value}’ will default those fields to the value. Example:To navigate to a new Contact page with defaulting the FirstName and the LastName fields via a formula […]

Seralize/Deserialize Now Handles Collections of Records

The Serialize/Deserialize package is useful for use cases like passing records into a flow when the flow is invoked via a REST call. In that kind of situation, the inputs to the flow have to be strings and serialization converts records and record collections to strings. This is often paired with a deserialization action at […]

From Centro: Robust Automation in Salesforce and Slack using Flow, Platform Events & Workflow Builder

Editor’s Note: UnofficialSF is pleased to enable commercial creators of Flow extensions like Centro to introduce their products and demonstrate useful use cases. One of our goals is to see a rich tier of commercial solutions in addition to the many free extensions that will continue to be available. Centro leverages the power of Salesforce […]

Convert To Flow Now Generates Before-Save Triggers and Subflows

Support for Process Builder Processes that Launch Flows The latest update of Convert To Flow adds support for Process Builder processes that launch flows, converting them to Triggered Flows that use a Subflow. NOTE: this requires a Winter ’22 Org. The Newly Generated Flow Will Use Before-Save Triggers If Possible If the source process or […]