Winter ’20 is a big release for flownatics, and the Flow PMs scored slots not only on the Admin, Developer and Platform Release Readiness Live shows, but also did a special Flow edition just for you!
https://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.png00Shannon Halehttps://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.pngShannon Hale2019-10-01 13:16:092019-10-01 13:27:34Flow Winter ’20 Features in Release Readiness Live + Automation Hour
Even if you’re not focused on employee productivity, this flow webinar is worth watching because it has a brand new flow demo that features Summer ’19 features and is basically the latest, greatest content on Flow. Multiple product managers put time into this one, and the quality is high.
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This simple Flow Action generates URL’s that can be used to launch flows in your org. This is particularly useful when its used with UI that lets the user choose a flow from a list of flows. The combination of the Flow List ‘picker’, followed by Generate Flow Link and then used with Open URL enhances the Dynamic flow launching scenario described here.
It takes the string API Name of a flow and returns a URL that will launch that flow. The latest version of this flow (1.1, available below) also can take up to three optional input params.
Salesforce put together this FAQ to provide details on some of the subtleties involved in the transition from the old HTML Text Templates to the new standardized approach used by Flow Builder as of Summer ’19. Check it out.
https://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.png00Alex Edelsteinhttps://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.pngAlex Edelstein2019-09-21 07:30:562019-09-21 07:30:57Official Transition Information Regarding Rich Text and Flow Text Templates
A common need in Flows is to be able to redirect the user to a new record that may have been created in the Flow. This new Lightning Flow Action can be used to redirect the user to the specified record in either View Mode or Edit Mode.
https://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.png00Eric Smithhttps://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.pngEric Smith2019-09-19 12:29:112019-09-19 12:38:48Navigate to a Record in View or Edit Mode at the end of a Flow
There are two basic use cases for dynamic loading:
Scenario 1: Launching Background (Autolaunched) from Screen Flows and Other Background Flows
One example of this is when you want to create a screen flow that can start an orchestration (which is a form of background flow). Another example of this is when you have a Schedule-Triggered background flow and you want it to do callouts. This doesn’t work if you add the callout directly (because the callout conflicts with the transaction that is opened by the schedule alarm) but will work if you put the action in a separate flow and launch it dynamically.
To launch a Background flow, use the Launch Flow Dynamically action. It’s discussed and is available for installation here.
Scenario 2: Screen Flows Launching Other Screen Flows
You have a screen flow and you want it to load another screen flow, but you don’t want to have to decide on which flow to load until the first flow runs. Suppose you have 20 screen flows representing 20 different business processes, and you want to dynamically determine which one a user should be brought to. One way to do this is to have a master flows with 20 subflows and a big decision element. That’s a little inflexible, though. Each time you add or delete something you have to change the master flow. And managing the big decision element takes work that it would be nice to be able to avoid.
The basic principle behind launching a screen flow is to assemble the corresponding URL and ask the browser to open it. This video show how to do this, combining the Open URL extension and a formula that assembles the URL:
Determining Which Flow To Launch
Of course, you don’t have to leave the choice of flow up to the user who is running the flow. You can generate the name of the flow to launch via your own flow logic.
Unmanaged 1.1 This installs the demo flow from the video, including the Flow List FSC picker and the Open URL Flow Action
The sample Flow we use in the above video incorporates two components: 1) a Flow List component provides users with a list of flows to choose from. 2) A new Open URL Flow Action launches the chosen screen flows by URL.
Use one of the above strings as an input to the ‘mode’ parameter. The default is ‘newTab’.
This action uses popup technology and may get blocked by popup blockers. If that’s becoming a problem for you, consider the alternative Load Web Page action.
https://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.png00Alex Edelsteinhttps://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.pngAlex Edelstein2019-09-16 20:19:162023-04-26 11:13:51New Ways to Open Web Pages from Flow
The admins at https://www.xbaf.com wrote a blog on how you can create a list button that launches a flow and pass the selected record ids to be processed by the flow using an undocumented flow variable
https://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.png00Tamar Erlichhttps://unofficialsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/largeUCSF-300x133.pngTamar Erlich2019-09-02 07:41:332022-02-05 06:01:51Submitting multiple records to Flows by https://xbaf.com
