Entries by Alex Edelstein

Flows Work with Experience LWR Sites (and why “Navigate Everywhere” and “Open URL” Don’t Work There Yet)

For several years, Experience Cloud has been developing an LWR-based foundation for Experience Sites. LWR stands for Lightning Web Runtime, and it uses Salesforce’s more modern Lightning Web Components instead of the older Aura technology. Building sites in LWR makes sense because LWR provides a significantly faster page loading experience and because LWC is the […]

Transactions and Flow Orchestration

Think of an Orchestration step as a core flow surrounded by a layer that tracks who that flow is assigned to and what determines when that flow has been properly completed. Once the main orchestration flow starts, it will pause and go to sleep when all appropriate steps have been started. Then it will wake up when […]

Two Ways to Send SMS Messages From Flow Using MessageBird

I’ve been playing around with communications services and wanted to try sending an SMS using the popular MessageBird platform. In the video shown here, I demonstrate how you can do this with the No-Code HTTP Callout action that’s available for installation as an extension, along with a hard-learned lesson about including the required headers. I […]

Introducing Salesforce Flow for Slack

At TrailblazerDX last month, Salesforce officially announced Salesforce Flow for Slack as part of a larger announcement about Flow expansion and success. Here’s more detail on what this announcement means and represents. Four New Flow Capabilities Flow for Slack encompasses four new Flow & Approval Processes capabilities: A set of Flow Actions that enable flows […]

Developer Notes: Packaging Changes to the Base Packs

Version 3.0 of FlowActionsBasePack will shortly be available. It is still a managed package, but the namespace of 3.0 and all subsequent versions of FlowActionsBasePack is ‘usf3’ instead of ‘usf’. Version 3.0.6 of Flow Screen Components Base Pack is being released at the same time. It requires Version 3.0 of FlowActionsBasePack. 9 files that made […]