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Salesforce Process Builder Quick Start Guide

By : Rakesh Gupta
Book Image

Salesforce Process Builder Quick Start Guide

By: Rakesh Gupta

Overview of this book

Salesforce Management System is an information system used in CRM to automate business processes, such as sales and marketing. Process Builder is a visual tool created to automate business processes in Salesforce. It enables users with no coding expertise to build complex Salesforce workflows. The book starts with an introduction to Process Builder, focussing on the building blocks of creating Processes. Then you will learn about different applications of Process Builder for developing streamlined solutions. You will learn how to easily automate business processes and tackle complex business scenarios using Processes. The book explains the workings of the Process Builder so that you can create reusable processes. It also explains how you can migrate existing Workflow Rules to Process Builder. By the end of the book, you will have a clear understanding of how to use Flows and Process Builder to optimize code usage.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Hands on 5 – bypass processes using custom permissions


We have now created many processes using Process Builder. It is a quite easy and fun experience to create processes. These processes will execute as soon as they meet certain criteria. But there are some situations where a business may want to bypass these processes. 

Let's look at an example. Suppose that Helina Jolly is working as a system administrator at Universal Containers. She developed the Post Opportunity Information to Chatter Group process in Chapter 1Getting Started with Lightning Process Builder. She has now received a requirement to bypass this process for the system administrator. 

It is quite easy to bypass the process for the system administrator, by adding an additional condition in your process, as shown in the following screenshot: 

But if the business comes back after two months and asks her to bypass the process from one more profile and one user (belonging to a different profile), then the situation is going to...