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Flow Scheduler: Enable Self-Service Scheduling for Field Service

Preview of Flow Scheduler booking slots

Context and Use Case

Salesforce Field Service (formerly known as Field Service Lighting or FSL) provides a series of UIs that allow agents and dispatchers to schedule appointments. However, a common use case for organizations involves providing self-service scheduling for end users through a Community. This package provides a wrapper and UI that allows admins to embed self-service scheduling within a Flow.

Note: this package requires that you own and have already configured Salesforce Field Service, and that the resources you are scheduling are licensed as Technicians. The users of the Flow would be authenticated Community (Experience Cloud) users booking appointments with those licensed technicians.

HUGE thank you to Field Service experts and all-around wonderful people Laura Bode and Leigh-Anne Nugent for all their help making this a reality.

Components

The star of the show in this package is a screen Flow called “Flow Scheduler” (aren’t I creative?) that is meant to be called as a subflow from within a larger self-scheduling Flow. This subflow is all you really need to understand in order to use this package and doesn’t require any modification, but I’ll also explain the underlying components below for anyone interested. The package also contains two custom checkbox fields, one on Service Territory and one on Scheduling Policy, each called “Default for Flow Scheduler”.

Flow Scheduler

This screen Flow takes two input parameters, a required Service Appointment ID and optional Scheduling Policy ID. It then displays a list of available slots to the user, and schedules the Service Appointment based on the user’s selection. Finally, it returns two values, the start datetime and end datetime of the user’s selected slot.

Next we’ll explore what’s actually happening inside the Flow Scheduler subflow. 

Action #1: Get Slots

This action is an invocable Apex wrapper that calls the AppointmentBookingService.getSlots() methods. It takes two parameters:

The action returns one of two values, either:

Screen: Display Available Slots

This screen contains the UI component called Display Booking Slots that displays the list of available slots to the user. It takes as inputs the two values returned by the Get Slots action. Again, only one of these values—the list of slots OR the error message—will have a value.
It returns as output two values: the start time and end time of the slot the user selects. Both are of type datetime.
If you want to customize the UI, you can modify the Display Booking Slots component (LWC) or build your own.

Action #2: Schedule Appointment

This action is an invocable Apex wrapper that calls the ScheduleService.schedule() method. It takes four parameters:

This action does not return a value, it simply schedules the Service Appointment.

Sample Use

Stay tuned for a detailed demo video coming soon!

Installation

Unmanaged Package

Source Code

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