Editor’s Note: This Guest Post was created by Alkymi. UnofficialSF occasionally showcases companies and products that work with Flow Flow Orchestration. Collaboration for the AI Era: The Data Action Layer. Seemingly every day we hear examples of Automation speeding up the business world in dramatic ways. Yet, hundreds of millions of documents, PDFs, Emails, Spreadsheets […]
This new ChangeOwner action provides advanced automation control over how related objects get handled when a records owner is changed. Flow already makes short work of changing the owner of a record; a single Update Record is all it takes. But elsewhere in Salesforce, there’s support for more sophisticated ownership change control. For example, when […]
UPDATE: Salesforce has added official support to Flow Orchestration for this functionality. Learn more. Work Guide Plus (“WG+”) is a custom Work Guide component that you can add to record and home pages, similar to how the Orchestration Work Guide works. In addition to being able to display an individual work item, it can show […]
Interested in learning more about Flow Orchestration? You’ll find content in these sessions: How to Automate Any Business Process Do More with Less Using Automation and App Dev Interactive: Workflow Orchestration Supercharge Slack with Flow Actions and Orchestrator. Automate Your Workflows with Salesforce Flow and Slack Demystifying Automation for Service with Flow Orchestration Supercharge Your […]
UPDATE: I TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID THE NIGHT BEFORE DREAMFORCE, SO I WON’T BE AT THIS MEETUP. you might want to go anyways and see who shows, however. Alex here…. If you’re coming to Dreamforce, drop by and say hello and tell me how you’re using Salesforce Automation and what you want to see in […]
I love it when we get some of those official Salesforce Flow videos with those sweet, sweet production values. This latest set of bite-sized videos is a definite new Must Watch for new Flow creators, drilling down on specific topics like Scheduled Paths and Variables. The videos are short, but there’s some nice focus: one […]
I tend to get distracted and either miss or forget the meeting alerts that Google Calendar generates, and recent changes to Mac OS notification have made the problem worse, so I decided to build a louder, more insistent alerting application using Flow. When the flow runs, it queries my Google Calendar account every minute, and […]
Some while back, the Detect and Launch component opened up a new frontier by making it possible to pop a screen flow from a record page automatically when the record is edited or deleted. Andy Haas has extended this component with some valuable new capabilities. Previously, you could pop a screen flow either 1) when […]
We recently built a GetGoogleCalendarEvents invocable action to enable a fun and useful Alerter app based on Flow. To enable a flow to retrieve Google calendar events from a flow, it’s necessary to create a authenticated Named Credential in your org. Here’s an updated walkthrough on how to do that. Thanks are due to this […]
We recently built a demo that highlights how Flow can be used to personalize emails, and we picked weather as a good example of the kind of real-time data that you have to make a call out for. As part of that demo, we built the action that’s packaged here. The service we use is […]