Earlier this week, the publication of the Summer ’21 Preview enabled us to break our single-day views record here at UnofficialSF.com, surpassing 5000 page views for the first time. As you can see, this comes on top of the milestone we hit in March of more than 100,000 page views in a month and the […]
As far as I’m concerned, the community can never have too many intro videos. One reality is that the product evolves and existing tutorials become out-of-date. For example, the intro videos I recorded when Flow Builder launched two years ago gained high praise, but they spend a lot of talking about Manual Variables. While manual […]
Always a pleasure to divulge the next functionality that will be available to Flow users and builders! Scheduled Paths in Record-Triggered Flows The ability to schedule delayed activity that keys off of an initial trigger, known as Scheduled Actions in Process Builder, comes to Flow in the form of Scheduled Paths. To create a Scheduled […]
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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. This package provides a set of simple actions to convert data from one form to the other. Convert from Collection to CSV String This takes a […]
Courtesy of Chris Van Der Merwe, here’s a Calculate Business Hours action that allows easy declarative, automated manipulation of Business Hours information. Effective key performance indicators are a valuable part of any business. However, Salesforce does not have an easy declarative way to do calculations around business hours. You can do this with a variety […]
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 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 […]
Amusing and informative. A great Flow intro for Apex developers, too. Check it out! Also check out the Flow and Apex wiki page