Never have we crammed so many different forms of awesome into one solution. Special guest appearance by Custom Metadata Types. Credit to Kamlesh Patel who actually built this demonstration and the components in it. Check out the video: https://youtu.be/G5q6jiBkqoI
The other day I built a flow action that generates random numbers. While doing it, I recorded the process, because we don’t have a lot of tutorial material on how you can turn a chunk of useful Apex code into a nice, declarative flow action. Here it is. For a general introduction to the invocable […]
So I was reading this thread that mentioned random numbers, and then I read this great post about building a Blackjack game out of flow, and the Monty Python-caliber dry humor (which may or may not be intentional; I haven’t figured that out yet) about the complicated math necessary to generate pseudo-randomness. And then I […]
While browsing reports of flow sessions at Dreamforce, I came across two guys claiming to implement an Entire Heckin’ Blackjack inside of Flow. This is My Kind of Dreamforce Session, but I wasn’t able to make it because they keep Product Managers very busy at Dreamforce. As of this moment I’m still waiting for the […]
Note: this is not an official Salesforce product and is not supported by Salesforce. Built a simple component recently that provides flow screens with this simplest of html entities. The wrinkle is that it’s styleable, providing an effective, colorful section header. Check out the video.
In which we draw your attention to great things being written: Delete Records Using Process Builder Using the new Page Reference mechanic to pass query parameters from URLs into Lightning Components A great tutorial on Flow Stages by Jennifer Lee Another great tutorial by Jennifer Lee on Local Flow Actions Arnab’s introductory blog post covering […]
UPDATE: This post discusses how to make SOQL calls in Flow using apex code. However, there are also some installable components that let you create SOQL calls with point-and-click UI in flows. Learn more. It’s surprisingly straightforward to add a complex SOQL query to your Lightning Flow. The process involves creating a simple Apex class […]
Flow Builder Posts Check out Arnab Bose’s post on the new Flow Builder. Arnab heads up product management for Lightning Flow. The new Flow Builder is part of this Platform press release, as well. New Flow Solutions Category on App Exchange A new Flow Solutions section has been added to the AppExchange. This includes a range of […]
Stimulated by demand and response from these unofficial community components, Salesforce has finished adding a new batch of official screen components to the upcoming Winter ’19 release. I’ll be demonstrating them at the Release Readiness Live Platform broadcast on Tuesday 9/18: Almost all of this batch derives in some way from the unofficial community work […]