Have you gone through the hassle of deleting flow versions one by one? Have you wished for an easy way to mass delete flow versions? Well, I certainly have been wishing for it since long. With the growing usage of flow, one might run into such scenarios more often than ever. Well, good for us … Continue reading Manage your Flows and their versions easily
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How to set up Header based API Key authentication in External Services?
Hola! 😀 Passing custom headers, especially for authentication purposes, has been one of the most requested features by External Services users. Thanks to latest enhancements introduced in Winter '23 for Named credentials, we can now pass custom headers while making callouts to external systems. Let's see how the set up would look like. Quick context; … Continue reading How to set up Header based API Key authentication in External Services?
Flow Screen Component: Dependent Picklist with Record Types and Multi-Select support version 2
Hola! 😀 Some time back I had created couple of flow screen components to extend the standard dependent picklist component with record type support (because the OOTB flow component (still) doesn't support this). Flow Screen Component: Dependent picklists based on RecordType selection Flow Screen Component: Dependent Picklists with RecordType and MultiSelect Picklist support A lot of folks … Continue reading Flow Screen Component: Dependent Picklist with Record Types and Multi-Select support version 2
How to create a Custom Property editor?
Hi, I recently did a session at Kochi Developer group where I demo-ed how to create a Custom Property Editor from scratch. We also discussed how Custom Property Editor can prove to be useful and what are the use cases where you consider building Custom Property. Fortunately, the session was recorded so I thought might … Continue reading How to create a Custom Property editor?
Migration Strategy: Process Builder & WFRs to Flows
Hi, As you may all know, with the upcoming release Spring '22, Salesforce is introducing 'Migrate to Flow' tool (in beta) to help you migrate your existing workflow rules to Flows. And Process Builder Migration tool is also on the roadmap for Summer '22 (safe harbor). Even with the given set of tools, migrating all … Continue reading Migration Strategy: Process Builder & WFRs to Flows
Scheduled Flow Best Practices
1. Important Limits to keep in mind. There are two important limits that you should know about if you're choosing to scheduled flows for your solution. Maximum 2000 elements limit.According to this limit, in a flow transaction, the total number of flow elements that can be executed is 2000.250,000 records limit.As per this limit, per … Continue reading Scheduled Flow Best Practices
Flow Automation Strategy: One Flow per SObject per context or Multiple Flows?
Ever since Salesforce announced the Record Triggered flows, to answer "Should I have multiple flows per SObject or one flow per SObject per context?" has been quite a pickle for a lot of folks. But Spring '22 is here to answer! If you had asked me before Spring '22, I would've recommended to go with … Continue reading Flow Automation Strategy: One Flow per SObject per context or Multiple Flows?
Process builder and Workflow rules will be retired! What does that mean?
Countdown has begun! I'm sure you must have already heard by now that Salesforce, at Dreamforce '21, has announced to deprecate/retire Process Builder and Workflow rules by 2023(Winter '23). This was announced at the True to the core session. You can watch(I think) the session on Salesforce+. Now, you may already have a lot of … Continue reading Process builder and Workflow rules will be retired! What does that mean?
What makes Process Builder so bad?
This is probably a good time to discuss why Process Builder is bad, given that Salesforce recently at Dreamforce '21 announced the retirement of Process Builder(and Workflow rules) by 2023. The purpose of this article is to share why it is important for Admins, Developers and Architects to move away from Process Builder and encourage … Continue reading What makes Process Builder so bad?
Why Before Save flows are 10x faster than Process Builder?
I'd assume a fair amount of experienced folks may already know the answer to this. However, for those who're relatively new in the ecosystem and a budding #flownatic, this might be of some interest to you. Also, given the fact that you'll be most likely building a lot of flows going forward, it becomes important … Continue reading Why Before Save flows are 10x faster than Process Builder?
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