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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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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

Debugging your Flow

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

Onscreen debugging

There are various ways through which you can debug the Flow on the screen, which are as follows:

Inbuilt debugging tools

Visual Workflow has a prebuilt debugger tool that allows you to debug your Flow from the Flow canvas itself. To open debug window, press Ctrl + Shift + M (Windows), or command + shift + M (Mac), while you open the Flow canvas. It will look like the following screenshot:

Using debug screens

Another way to debug the Flow is to keep a debug screen after each of the Flow elements (for example, after Record Lookup, Record Create, Record Delete, Record Update, Assignment, or Decision) while developing it. It will help you to...

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