Entries by Eric Smith

Enhanced Approval Requests

I recently had the opportunity to meet with the team responsible for the excellent AppExchange product that handles enhanced approval requests. It is available in both a free and a paid version. Their roadmap includes expanding the app to work seemlessly with both the original and the new flow based approval processes. You can read […]

Sample Use Cases for Flow Launcher & Datatable

I’ve written an article on the Flow Launcher from the App Exchange and included a few use cases showing how to use Datatable Row Actions to launch pop-up screen flows to do things like edit records or add new records to a Datatable. Get the complete story here.

What’s new for Datatable and other UnofficialSF components

I’ve released a new version of the Datatable component (4.3.5). In addition to the Remove Row Action, I’ve added a new Standard Row Action and improved reactivity with a new single “Actioned Row” output.  When a row is “actioned”, you can fire off other reactive screen components like Flow Launcher or Screen Actions.  This lets […]

Datatable with Row Actions calling a pop-up Screen Flow

The article discusses enhancing datatable row actions to launch screen flows for user interaction. The upgraded Flow Launcher allows passing records in and out, enabling users to edit fields not natively supported for inline editing. Key components and processing actions are outlined to facilitate these updates, enriching user experience and data management.

New Auto Navigate Component for Screen Flows

Have you ever wanted to have your screen flows automatically navigate to the next screen without needing the user to click a button? This new component is designed to be used on a Flow Screen to automatically navigate to the previous or next screen. The navigation is controlled by making the component conditionally visible so […]

That was Quick – New Datatable v4.3.4

While running some tests with my latest version of the Datatable component, I came across an interesting inconsistency in how sorting is handled in flow. Salesforce List Views, sorting in flow elements like Get Records and sorting in a SOQL query in DataFetcher provide case insensitive sorting for text based fields. Example: AbCdE However, the […]

A new version of Datatable has been released (v4.3.3)

I have released a new version (4.3.3) of the Datatable component that adds a new feature and squashes some outstanding bugs. The latest addition lets you specify column filters that will match records with blank values in the filtered column. T Also, the number of characters required in the Search Term box before the search […]

Datatable Winter ’25 Update

The latest iteration of the Winter ’25 release introduced a change in how columns set to flex to the width of the container behave. The new version 4.3.1 of the Datatable component should now correctly handle flex columns in Winter ’25 orgs. Notes: I’ve added a new behavior for column headers in this release of […]

New Flow Action to Check for Blank Fields

Elliot Hebert, an Application Architect at RafterOne, has simplified record validation with a new action to check if a record has any blank field values from a list of field API names that you provide to the component. Find out more about this new invocable flow action here.

Check out the latest Datatable improvements!

Welcome to the next major release of Datatable.  There are a couple of amazing new features along with a few minor bug fixes. • There is now a new Remove Row Action available that allows the removal of individual rows from the Datatable. This can be useful in scenarios such as using the Datatable to […]