Bob Buzzard: Comparing The New Before-Save Flows to Apex Triggers
Excellent analysis. Check it out! And also checkout the Flow Triggers Wiki Page.
Entries by Alex Edelstein
Extend Formula-building to Non-Admins with Formula Builder, Expression Builder and the ‘Evaluate Formula’ Action
Introduction You can use formulas in both Flow…. and Process Builder: But these tools only are available to admins building flows and processes. Recently we’ve been tinkering with rich flow-based applications where we wanted to let users who are running flows create formulas and see them put to use. These use cases tend to involve […]
Jen Lee: Building Modularity and Reuse into Flows, Permission Set Actions, and More
Video is up from Jen’s recent presentation at Cactusforce. I love how real her examples are. You can learn a lot of best practices from studying her Flows.
Katie Kodes: The Best Use-External-Services-To-Create-A-Flow-Action-Without-Code Tutorial Yet
Katie put together an in-depth walkthrough that leverages the demonstration Liz Skaates did as part of the Spring ’20 rollout broadcasts. Check it out!
Spring ’20 Release Readiness Live – Admin Preview with Flow Builder and External Services
This release’s admin broadcast includes not just a survey of Flow Builder improvements by product manager Shannon Hale but also a demonstration of Slack integration with Flow via an Enhanced External Service, presented by External Service product manager Liz Skaates. Check it out!
Spring ’20 Release Readiness Live – Developer Broadcast with Dynamic SObject Demo
The Developer Broadcast includes a section presented by Developer Evangelist Anny He that goes deep on creating a collection processor. Check it out!
Spring ’20 Flow “Release Readiness Live” Broadcast
This is the big one. Nearly 90 minutes of intensive Flow content, straight from product management. Check it out!
QuickChoice Update: Now with Column Width Control, Plus Bug Fixes
You can now pass in a number of pixels (default is 320) in the attribute “style_width” to set the width of the control. Problem preventing Get Layouts action from working in non-debug environments have been fixed. “ObjectAndFieldName” attribute has been removed to simplify the interface, which still has an Object Name and a Field Name […]
Flow and File Upload
The recommended way to do File Upload is via this extension, which adds a bunch of features to the basic set provided in the ‘out-of-the-box’ File upload. Documentation Salesforce makes a File Upload screen component available. It’s documented here. This component requires a recordId and associates the uploaded files with that record. It can accept […]
Matthew Nelson: Retrieve Object Type Name from ID
Check it out.