In the common diagnostic use case, you have a tree structure of information and you work your way through the tree, gathering information and using it to determine the next diagnostic question. This is useful for important and distinctive use cases like troubleshooting and coming up with a good offer. Here’s an example: Now, the […]
When we learn about a good component, we seek to: create a page for it on unofficialsf. This can either be a Post or a Page. make sure the install instructions on that page provide links to unmanaged and managed packages. Managed packages can be important if there are collisions between support files. For example, […]
By Evan Ponter Flows are a great way to collect information from your users in a guided fashion. They can be added to the utility bar of an app for easy access no matter where the user navigates. But the normal behavior for flows in utility bars is an endless loop – when the flow […]
This feature shipped quietly back in Winter ’19. The official docs are somewhat hidden away here. This blog post is mainly an effort to raise the profile of this feature a bit. If you wrap a base component that has a “required” attribute, even if you expose the attribute, Flow will not know to check […]
This video was done in 2018, but it’s still one of the best demonstrations of how to make use of the Collection Operators in the Assignment element.
Templates, Apex-defined Types, and more. Check it out.
FlowListFSC is a specialized combo box that you can drop into any flow screen. It displays a list of all of your flows, and can be configured to show just the active ones. NEW: flowPickerFSC Version 1.3 now offers additional functionality View Source (flowListFSC v1.1) Install 1.1 (unmanaged) I built FlowCombo because I’ve been exploring […]
This component surfaces the dual listbox in flow screens. It allows for multiple selection and returns the selected values either as a comma-separated list or (more usefully) as a collection of strings that can be looped over. This is an installable component and is not the same as the built-in Multiselect Picklist, which looks like […]
The Tooling API provides a way to get information about Action Strategies. I’m more familiar with the Metadata API, but in general Salesforce is trending towards the Tooling API as a more flexible, granular tool, and this is likely to increase. For performance reasons, metadata API deploys and retrieves will often trigger a recompilation of […]
UnofficialSF is Looking for Volunteer Editors Want to help the Flow community, work closely with Salesforce Flow PM’s and build your flow knowledge? Become an UnofficialSF editor. The general goal we have is to make this the best starting point for flow knowledge. That means tasks like adding links to the high quality flow content being […]