Entries by Alex Edelstein

Winter ’22 Flow Sneak Preview

Here’s a quick preview of the functionality coming to Flow in Winter ’22. Note that this is not the complete list of changes and you should carefully check the Release Notes for changes that may impact your org. Auto-Layout Now Supports All Flows with ‘GoTo’ Connectors You can now create flows in Auto-Layout mode that […]

Combining Scheduled Flows with Flow Actions

A user trying to use a custom invocable action in a scheduled flow reported: I have installed version 1.28 but in my Scheduled flow I get an error that says “Profile does not have access to: copycollection”. I am system admin and have checked; my profile does have access to the copycollection apex. When I try […]

Flexcard V1.2 Allows Immediate Transition on Click

The original mode of Flexcard is designed for each card to have a number of pop-up subflows. You can now choose a different mode of operation by setting the boolean input TransitionOnClick to True. When you do this, each card becomes a button and clicking on the card causes an immediate transition. Check it out […]

From Forcelution Apps: Enhanced Approval Requests

We wanted to give Forcelution Apps a chance to talk about the functionality they add to Approval Requests with their Enhanced Approval Requests extension. It’s available as a free version and as a paid, supported, enhanced version. Filling Gaps Salesforce out of the box provides the ability to submit and process records for approval. This […]

Akihiro Iwaya Explores Approval Use Case in Flow Orchestrator

Intro Flow Orchestrator takes a wide range of rich, sophisticated, and complex business process use cases that require code today and makes them easy to create with clicks. It makes it possible to automate multi user processes so I try to verify if Flow Orchestrator replaces the standard approval process. Use case A SaaS company […]

Developer Note: Adding Automatic Output Variable Support to your Custom Property Editor

The Custom Property Editor Developer’s Guide has been updated to include material about the new @api automaticOutputVariables attribute. If you use FlowComboBox in your CPE, you should create this attribute and then make sure to pass the resulting data to FlowComboBox along with the builderContext data. This will cause your embedded ComboBoxes to provide access […]

Changes to Number and Currency Components in Summer ’21

Here are some minor changes that were not documented officially. Number and Currency Components The Number and Currency components were upgraded to new LWC technology. This results in the following new behavior: When not in focus, the value is rounded or zero-padded according to the scale. This affects value presentation only. It has no impact […]