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
Salesforce: Mass File Downloader
It often the case where you want to or asked to download single or multiple selected Salesforce Files. However, there is no solution available out of the box that lets you select and download multiple files. So building on the idea shared by fellow friend, M Hamza in his post, I built a web component … Continue reading Salesforce: Mass File Downloader
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?
Navigate to Flow Screens Dynamically with Custom Navigation Buttons
I recently came across a very interesting use case(thanks to Sarah Khalid). Imagine you have a flow screen with a bunch of custom navigation buttons that take you to the next flow screen when clicked. But what if you want to navigate to different screens based on the button you clicked? NOTE: One way to … Continue reading Navigate to Flow Screens Dynamically with Custom Navigation Buttons
How to dynamically set custom CSS properties in LWC?
Hi! 🙂 Imagine, as a developer, you've a use case where you're developing a custom modal LWC component and you'd like to make it flexible so that you can easily adjust the height of the modal. One (and relatively the easier) way of doing this is by using in-line CSS, and here's how it will … Continue reading How to dynamically set custom CSS properties in LWC?