Entries by Eric Smith

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 […]

New Datatable Features

The new v4.2.0 release of Datatable is now available! Updates The newest feature is Pagination. You can now specify how many records to show at a time and allow the user to page back and forth through the table. A reactive Table Header is another new addition to this release. You can use a Text […]

Convert Text to Base64 Invocable Flow Action

Convert Text to Base64 Invocable Flow Action Created by Eric Smith This Post was most recently updated on: 4/7/24Current Version: 1.0.0 Recently I was trying to convert a JavaScript button from Salesforce Classic to Lightning that was designed to take the user to an external link for the DocuWare application. JavaScript Button window.open(‘https://ami.docuware.cloud:443/DocuWare/Platform/WebClient/3024/Integration?p=RLV&rl=98c8d544-9b8a-48f0-b8a7-c8287d509e5f&fc=3f857eb7-7752-4aea-afdf-5c29a5843515&q=’+btoa(‘%5BFIELD_10%5D = “{!Case.CaseNumber}”‘)); Normally, for this […]

New Additions to the Collection Processors Package

There are a couple of new updates to the Collection Processors package. My co-worker, Derek Camp, created a component to meet a particular use case he had where he wanted to get a random selection of records from an object. The other addition adds a component that can convert back and forth between a delimited […]

What’s new in the Flow Screen Components Base Pack?

There is a brand new component and a few new updates to the Quick Choice component in the latest Version 3.3.0 of the FlowScreenComponentsBasePack. Jodi Nemser-Abrahams came across an issue recently where even though formulas are reactive in screen flows, they cannot be used to control the conditional visibility of other components on the same […]

Four New Collection Processor Actions added as Reactive Screen Components

I’ve added 4 new Collection Processor Actions as Reactive Screen Components. The original actions were Extract Field to Collection and Calculate Field Summary. The latest additions are Filter Collection, Find Common and Unique Records, Join Collections and Sort Collections. This means you can now do multiple types of collection processing without having to leave the […]

New update for Datatable

There is a new update for Datatable (v4.1.1) I’ve added reactivity for Apex-Defined objects and fixed a bug where the results of the DataFetcher component weren’t being reactive on the initial load of the flow screen. I also made the placeholder text “Enter search term …” for the Search Bar a translatable label. You can […]

Check out the Latest Datatable Enhancements

It’s been a few months, but I hope it has been worth the wait for some of the fixes and enhancements you’ll see in the latest version of Datatable. I squashed a couple of bugs including: A few of the minor enhancements are: The two big enahancements are the addition of an optional Search Bar […]

New Collection Action – Return First N Records

I’ve added a new action to the library of Collection Actions. This action will take, for input, a collection of records and a count then it will return, for output, a collection of records along with a count of how many records were returned. The primary reason I created this action was to address the […]