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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow

By : Rakesh Gupta
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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow

By: Rakesh Gupta

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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow
Rakesh Gupta
Apr, 2015 | 264 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow
Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Visual Workflow
Getting Started with Visual Workflow
Business problems
The benefits of Visual Workflow
System requirements for using Visual Workflow
An overview of the Visual Workflow lifecycle
An overview of the Cloud Flow Designer
An overview of the building blocks of Visual Workflow
The various ways to invoke a Flow
Summary
2
Creating Flow through Point and Click
Creating Flow through Point and Click
Creating the building blocks of Flow
Creating a variable
Creating a collection variable
Creating an SObject Variable
Creating an SObject Collection Variable
Designing the Flow
A few points to remember
Exercises
Summary
3
Manipulating Records in Visual Workflow
Manipulating Records in Visual Workflow
Creating the building blocks of a Flow
Creating a Constant
Creating a Text Template
Manipulating the data
A few points to remember
Exercises
Summary
4
Debugging and New Ways to Call a Flow
Debugging and New Ways to Call a Flow
Debugging your Flow
Debug log
Who can run the Flow and how
Automating your business process
A few points to remember
Exercises
Summary
5
Developing Applications with Process Builder
Developing Applications with Process Builder
An overview of Process Builder
Differences between Process Builder and other tools
Creating applications with Process Builder
A few points to remember
Exercises
Summary
6
Building Applications without Code
Building Applications without Code
Distributing or deploying Flows and Processes
Hands on 2 – displaying messages after login
Hands on 4 – understanding Subflow and the Wait Element
Hands on 6 – using custom settings in a Flow
Hands on 7 – creating schedule jobs using a Flow
A few points to remember
Exercises
Summary
Index
Index

Creating a variable

A variable is used to store the value. You can use the variable throughout your Flow, for example, while creating the record, performing an update, or with delete operations.

An example business scenario: Robby Williams is working as a system administrator in Universal Container. Currently, he is developing a Visual Workflow and wants to create a variable to store customer names.

To create a variable in your Flow, follow these instructions:

  1. Navigate to Setup | Build | Create | Workflow & Approvals | Flows.

  2. Click on the New Flow button; it will open the Flow canvas for you.

    Note

    If you are using Flow for the first time, then it will pop up a welcome page. On the bottom of the page, you can see the Don't Show Again checkbox. If you want the Flow page to load faster, then select this checkbox.

  3. Navigate to the Resources tab, and double-click on the Variable option available under the CREATE NEW section, as shown in the following screenshot:

    This will open a window for you, where...

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