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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder

You're reading from Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder Flows and automation for enhanced business productivity

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787284999

Length 448 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Adobe Flash Player

Concepts

Workflow Automation

Author (1):

Gupta

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Visual Workflow FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Flow through Point and Click

3. Manipulating Records in Visual Workflow

4. Debugging and New Ways to Call a Flow

5. Developing Applications with Process Builder

6. Building Efficient and Performance Optimized Processes

7. Building Applications without Code

8. Enabling Flows to Work with Lightning Experience

A few points to remember

The following are some noteworthy points to remember:

When a user opens a Lightning Page that has a Flow component, the Flow also runs on the page load. Make sure that your Flow doesn’t perform any DML operations such as creating or deleting records from the first screen.
It is not possible to embed an autolaunched Flow into Lightning Pages.
Currently, it is not possible to pass the values to input variables Picklist, Multi-select picklist, sObject and Collection variables.
In the Lightning, runtime Flows Text input variables can accept a maximum length of 4,000 characters.
If you delete an sObject variable or sObject collection variable, any variable assignments that use the deleted variable are set to null.
The Cloud Flow Designer cannot open Flows that are installed from managed packages.
When Lightning runtime is enabled for a Salesforce organization, Flows in Salesforce Classic don’t load the Web tab and Custom buttons or links that are set to display in an existing...

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Authors (1)

Gupta

Gupta

Rakesh Gupta is best known as an automation champion in the Salesforce ecosystem. He has written over 150 articles on Visual Workflow and Process Builder to show how someone can use Visual Workflow and Process Builder to minimize code usage. He is one of the Visual Workflow and Process Builder experts in the industry. He has trained more than 700 individual professionals around the globe and conducted corporate training. Currently, Rakesh is working as a Salesforce solution architect consultant.

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