Luke Freeland from the blog https://metillium.com/blog/ has published a post comparing process automation methods and measuring benchmarks Salesforce Record Automation Benchmarking
Part II compares Single VS Multi-Object Flow Field Update

I was recently tasked with a requirement to display a list of opportunity partners on a custom object related to opportunity. I planned to use a flow to get the opportunity partner records and then display them using the Datatablev2 Flow Screen Component available on this site. When I tried to create the flow, I encountered some issues:
1. The Opportunity Partners object is a legacy object and cannot be customized. I could not create formulas for getting the account name or link to the account
2. I could not use dot notation to get the account name from the account ID in the get records component in the flow
3. I could not use the partner account ID as a filter criteria on a new get records element to get the account records.

I knew I had to create a custom way to get the data I needed to display. Eric Smith referred me to his blog post on how to use Apex defined data types and an invocable action to create data for the datatable component.
How to Use an Apex-Defined Object with my Datatable Flow Component
I create my Apex defined data type for opportunity partners.

/**
* @author       : Tamar Erlich
* @date         : October 07, 2020
* @description  : Wrapper class for opportunity partners
* Note          : This class is called by the GetOpportunityPartnersAction.
* *************************************************
*       <runTest><runTest>
* *************************************************
* @History
* -------
* VERSION | AUTHOR                | DATE               | DESCRIPTION
* 1.0     | Tamar Erlich          | October 07, 2020   | Created
**/
public with sharing class OpportunityPartnersWrapper {

    // @AuraEnabled annotation exposes the methods to Lightning Components and Flows
    @AuraEnabled
    public String accountName;
 
    @AuraEnabled
    public String partnerRole;
 
    @AuraEnabled
    public Boolean isPrimary;

    @AuraEnabled
    public String accountLink;

    // Define the structure of the Apex-Defined Variable
    public OpportunityPartnersWrapper(
            String accountName,
            String partnerRole,
            Boolean isPrimary,
            String accountLink
    ) {
        this.accountName = accountName;
        this.partnerRole = partnerRole;
        this.isPrimary = isPrimary;
        this.accountLink = accountLink;
    }
 
    // Required no-argument constructor
    public OpportunityPartnersWrapper() {}

}

I then created an invocable action that received the opportunity and account IDs and returns a JSON string that can be displayed in my flow table.

/**
 * @author       : Tamar Erlich
 * @date         : October 07, 2020
 * @description  : Invocable method that given opportunityId and accountId, returns a list of opportunity partners to display on opportunity plan record page
 * Note          : This class is called by the Flow.
 * *************************************************
 *       <runTest>GetOpportunityPartnersActionTest<runTest>
 * *************************************************
 * @History
 * -------
 * VERSION | AUTHOR                | DATE               | DESCRIPTION
 * 1.0     | Tamar Erlich          | October 07, 2020   | Created
 **/
global with sharing class GetOpportunityPartnersAction {
  // Expose this Action to the Flow
  @InvocableMethod
  global static List<Results> get(List<Requests> requestList) {
    // initialize variables
    Results response = new Results();
    List<Results> responseWrapper = new List<Results>();
    String errors;
    String success = 'true';
    String stringOutput;
    List<OpportunityPartner> opportunityPartners = new List<OpportunityPartner>();
    List<OpportunityPartnersWrapper> opportunityPartnersSet = new List<OpportunityPartnersWrapper>();
    Set<Id> setOppIds = new Set<Id>();
    Set<Id> setAccIDs = new Set<Id>();
    Map<Id, List<OpportunityPartner>> mapOppOppPartners = new Map<Id, List<OpportunityPartner>>();

    // create sets of Ids to use as bind variables in the query
    for (Requests rq : requestList) {
      setOppIds.add(rq.opportunityId);
      setAccIds.add(rq.accountId);
    }

    // query all request opportunities and their partners and create a map with opportunityId as the key and a list of parrtners as the values
    for (Opportunity opp : [
      SELECT
        Id,
        (
          SELECT AccountTo.Name, IsPrimary, Role
          FROM OpportunityPartnersFrom
          WHERE OpportunityId = :setOppIds AND AccountToId != :setAccIds
        )
      FROM Opportunity
    ]) {
      mapOppOppPartners.put(opp.Id, opp.OpportunityPartnersFrom);
    }

    for (Requests curRequest : requestList) {
      String accountId = curRequest.accountId;
      String opportunityId = curRequest.opportunityId;

      try {
        if (accountId == null || opportunityId == null) {
          throw new InvocableActionException(
            'When using the GetOpportunityPartners action, you need to provide BOTH an Account Id AND an Opportunity Id'
          );
        }

        if (!accountId.startsWith('001') || !opportunityId.startsWith('006')) {
          throw new InvocableActionException(
            'Invalid Account or Opportunity ID'
          );
        }
        // get the list of opportunity partners matching the current opportunityId from the map
        if (accountId != null && opportunityId != null) {
          opportunityPartners = mapOppOppPartners.get(opportunityId);
        }

        // populate the Apex defined wrapper type with opportunity partner information
        for (opportunityPartner op : opportunityPartners) {
          OpportunityPartnersWrapper opw = new OpportunityPartnersWrapper();

          opw.accountName = op.AccountTo.Name;
          opw.partnerRole = op.Role;
          opw.isPrimary = op.IsPrimary;
          opw.accountLink = '/' + op.AccountToId;

          opportunityPartnersSet.add(opw);
        }

        // Convert Record Collection to Serialized String
        stringOutput = JSON.serialize(opportunityPartnersSet);
      } catch (InvocableActionException e) {
        System.debug('exception occured: ' + e.getMessage());

        errors = e.getMessage();
        success = 'false - custom exception occured';
      } catch (exception ex) {
        System.debug('exception occured: ' + ex.getMessage());

        errors = ex.getMessage();
        success = 'false - exception occured';
      }

      // Prepare the response to send back to the Flow
      // Set Output Values
      response.errors = errors;
      response.successful = success;
      response.outputCollection = opportunityPartnersSet;
      response.outputString = stringOutput;

      responseWrapper.add(response);
    }

    // Return values back to the Flow
    return responseWrapper;
  }

  // Attributes passed in from the Flow
  global class Requests {
    @InvocableVariable(label='Input the Related OpportunityId' required=true)
    global String opportunityId;

    @InvocableVariable(label='Input the Opportunity\'s AccountId' required=true)
    global String accountId;
  }

  // Attributes passed back to the Flow
  global class Results {
    @InvocableVariable
    global String errors;

    @InvocableVariable
    global String successful;

    @InvocableVariable
    public List<OpportunityPartnersWrapper> outputCollection;

    @InvocableVariable
    public String outputString;
  }

  // custom exception class
  global class InvocableActionException extends Exception {
  }
}

/**
* @author       : Tamar Erlich
* @date         : October 07, 2020
* @description  : Test class for GetOpportunityPartnersAction Invocable method
* Note          :
* *************************************************
*       <runTest>GetOpportunityPartnersActionTest<runTest>
* *************************************************
* @History
* -------
* VERSION | AUTHOR                | DATE               | DESCRIPTION
* 1.0     | Tamar Erlich          | October 07, 2020   | created
**/
@IsTest
public with sharing class GetOpportunityPartnersActionTest {


    @isTest
    public static void opportunityPartnersFound(){

        // initialize variables
        List<GetOpportunityPartnersAction.Requests> requestList = new List<GetOpportunityPartnersAction.Requests>();
        String accountId;
        String opportunityId;

        // create test account
        List<Account> accounts = new List<Account>();

        for (Integer j = 0; j < 1; j++) {

            Account a = new Account(
                Name = 'email' + j + '.com'
                );

            accounts.add(a);
        }
        
        insert accounts;

        // create test opportunity
        Date closeDate = System.today();
        Opportunity testOpp;

        testOpp = new Opportunity(
            Name = 'test opp',
            StageName = 'Open In-Progress',
            Amount = 100,
            CloseDate = closeDate
        );
        insert testOpp;

        accountId = accounts[0].Id;
        opportunityId = testOpp.Id;

        // create test opportunity partner
        OpportunityPartner testPartner;
        testPartner = new OpportunityPartner(
            OpportunityId = opportunityId,
            AccountToId = accountId,
            Role = 'Dealer',
            IsPrimary = false
        );
        insert testPartner;

        // prepare request for GetOpportunityPartnersAction
        GetOpportunityPartnersAction.Requests request = new GetOpportunityPartnersAction.Requests();
        request.accountId = accountId;
        request.opportunityId = opportunityId;
        requestList.add(request);

        // run test and assert results
        List <GetOpportunityPartnersAction.Results> results = GetOpportunityPartnersAction.get(requestList);
        System.assertEquals(results[0].errors, null,'Errors not expected');
        System.assertNotEquals(results[0].successful, 'false', 'Success expected');
        System.assertEquals(true, results[0].outputCollection.size()>0, 'Opportunity Partners expected');
    }

}

I then used my new action in the flow to get the opportunity partner records.

I then configured my datatable on the flow screen

Some notes on the datatable configuration:
1. User Defined had to bet set to true
2. The Datatable Record String must be set to the variable returned from the action
3. The column field types must be set for all columns. I set the first column to the url type
4. My first column has special type attributes for displaying as a clickable link: 1:{label: { fieldName: accountName}, target: ‘_blank’}
5. Since this is for display only, I hid the checkbox columns
6. I used the new features available in v2.46 to apply an icon and title to the table

The View All link uses a formula to create the link

Here is the entire flow

And here is the end result

This use case can be easily adapted to display other opportunity related information like opportunity team members or opportunity contact roles.

Source

Source

Trying to report on user login history using standard Salesforce reporting can be tricky. If you would like to see each users’s last login and his total login count for the last 6 months, sorted by login count, you have to use some external Excel manipulation. I was looking to get a simple report I could use to monitor login usage.

I was able to provide a nice solution using the new before save flow record trigger. The first step is to create a number field on the user object to hold the login count. Then create this simple before save flow. This flow updates the custom field on the User object. By incrementing a counter every time a login history is generated, each user shows a login count. Then, at any time, you can generate the report by simply reporting on your users.

This use case can be easily adapted to rollup any related records on other objects. I can think of several examples: count of opportunity contact roles on opportunity, count open cases on a contact, count of won opportunities on an account.

The first post in a new series on the Salesforce admin blog demonstrates a novel way to launch auoto-launched flows from a formula field on a report. This has several very interesting use cases
Check it out