Developer Note: Flow Combo Box Now Supports Automatic Output References
Here’s what Flow Combo Box displayed previously: As of FlowScreenComponentsBasePack version 2.3.7 and higher, Flow Combobox also makes automatic references available:
Entries by Alex Edelstein
Use Salesforce Flow to Make No-Code HTTP Web Callouts
The new DataMapper package of actions provides a way to easily create web callouts and powerful new data mapping solution that allows data to be extracted easily from JSON text. This post introduces the Make HTTP Action that is included in DataMapper. Easy HTTP Calls We’re going to start by retrieving exchange rates via an […]
Use DataMapper to Convert Web JSON to Salesforce Flow Objects
The DataMapper package provides two Flow Actions that can be combined in different ways to achieve powerful transformations between Salesforce objects and JSON. We’ll demonstrate this using the JSON created in the example in the Make HTTP Call. In that example, a call is made to a foreign exchange web service and it returns the […]
Creating NBA Recommendations from Salesforce Records
Sometimes you want to generate recommendations from records. For example, you might want to recommend a set of Accounts that should be worked on, or a set of Leads that should be processed. You can load records of any type using the Load Element. Here, for example, a set of Asset records are loaded in: […]
From Ralph Braun: Using the ‘Edit Quip Document’ Action
The Quip team has provided some powerful Flow Actions that allow flow to drive the creation of new Quip documents from Quip templates. Ralph Braun’s new wiki page builds out the Quip section of the UnofficialSF wiki: Keep in mind that EVERYONE is invited to create new wiki articles and submit edits to existing ones. […]
Developer Notebook: Robert Fay shows how to make LWC-embedded screen flows resize properly
We previously published an LWC screen component called Screen Flow that allows flows to be embedded in Lightning Web Components.However, it doesn’t resize automatically. Rob Fay extended it to do this elegantly and then posted about it. Check it out! Note: Salesforce has an LWC version of the lightning:flow component under construction. Look for it […]
From Vincent Finet: Analyze your Org with OrgCheck
OrgCheck is an easy-to-install and easy-to-use Salesforce application in order to quickly analyze your org and its technical debt. Flow users, note that some of what it reports on relates to your existing automations. Website: https://sfdc.co/OrgCheckLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sf-orgcheck How does it work? You install this application directly in the org you want to analyse (sandbox or […]
Developer Notebook: James Simone on Analyzing the Nuances of Invocable Actions
James Simone, the blogger behind The Joys of Apex, recently turned his attention to invocable actions and cranked out a wonderfully deep examination of the ins and outs of invocable actions, along with discussion about relevant patterns, dependency injection, inversion of control, and a lot of content that I haven’t even had a chance to […]
Sum, Multiply and Average Fields in a Collection with CollectionCalculate
We’ve added an action called CollectionCalculate to the CollectionProcessors package that lets you provide a collection of records, specify a field by name, and indicate whether you’d like to add, multiply or average the values. The result is returned both as a decimal and a string. Input Attributes inputCollection a collection of SObjects fieldName the […]
Developer Note: Flow Screen Components Are Gradually Getting Treated More Strictly When It Comes to Change Event Dispatch
As of this writing, in Summer ’21, there’s a behind-the-scenes transformation starting to happen to the Flow Runtime. This is the javascript component that gets loaded when a screen needs to be rendered in a screen flow. The Flow Runtime is also the ‘Flow’ component that shows up in the palette of App Builder. Although […]