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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder - Second Edition

By : Rakesh Gupta
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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder - Second Edition

By: Rakesh Gupta

Overview of this book

Salesforce Management System is an information system used in CRM to automate the business processes like sales and marketing. To implement this, Force.com developed a powerful tool called Visual Workflow to automate business processes by creating applications also called Flows. Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow, Second Edition is a practical guide on Flows that will enable you to develop custom applications in Salesforce with minimized code usage. The book starts with an introduction to Visual Workflows that teaches all the building blocks of creating Flows and use it efficiently. You will learn how to easily automate business processes and tackle complex business scenarios using Flows. The book explains the working of the Process Builder so you can create reusable processes. The book also covers how you can integrate existing or newly created Flows with the Salesforce Lightening Experience. By the end of the book, you will get a clear understanding on how to use Flows and Process Builder in your organization to optimize code usage.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Debugging your Flow

In Chapter 3, Manipulating Records in Visual Workflow, we discussed a way to display a meaningful error message to users when an unhandled exception occurred at runtime. But apart from displaying the custom error message to users, it's also important to understand the various ways through which you can debug the Flow.

On screen debugging

There are various ways through which you can debug the Flow on screen, which are discussed in the upcoming sections.

Inbuilt debugging tools

While working, sometimes, you may get an error generated by Visual Workflow, which may be too general, for example...