Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow

Rakesh Gupta

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781785289835
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow

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Table of Contents

Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Visual Workflow

Business problems

Business use case 1

Solution 1 – using an Apex trigger

Solution 2 – a combination of Visual Workflow and Process Builder

Business use case 2

Solution 1 – using Apex

Solution 2 – a combination of Visual Workflow and Process Builder

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

Flow elements

Flow resources

Flow connectors

The various ways to invoke a Flow

Summary

2. Creating Flow through Point and Click

Creating the building blocks of Flow

Creating a variable

Creating a collection variable

Adding values to a collection variable

Creating an SObject Variable

Creating an SObject Collection Variable

Designing the Flow

Creating a Salesforce Developer account

Logging in to Salesforce.com

Hands on 1 – displaying logged-in user ID

Creating a Screen element

Adding fields to the Screen element

Removing fields from the Screen element

Setting the Start element in a Flow

Saving a Flow

Running a Flow

Hands on 2 – real estate commission calculator

Connecting the Flow elements

Hands on 3 – displaying a feedback form based on conditions

Adding a Decision element

Adding a choice to a Flow

Hands on 4 – displaying related records based on search functionality

Adding a dynamic choice to a Flow

A few points to remember

Exercises

Summary

3. Manipulating Records in Visual Workflow

Creating the building blocks of a Flow

Creating a Constant

Creating a Text Template

Manipulating the data

Hands on 1 – creating leads

Adding the Record Create element to a Flow

Hands on 2 – adding leads to a campaign

Adding a record to a parent

Activating a version of a Flow

Passing values to Flow variables through a URL

Setting the finish location or redirecting the URL for a Flow

Hands on 3 – quickly update an account record

Adding Record Update elements to a Flow

Hands on 4 – cleaning Chatter group feed

Adding the Record Delete element to a Flow

Hands on 5 – adding Flow to the home page layout

Saving Flow as a different version

Adding the Record Lookup element to a Flow

Hands on 6 – adding an image to Display Text

Hands on 7 – saving data from a feedback form

Hands on 8 – sending an e-mail

Hands on 9 – creating a custom error message

Hands on 10 – conditional execution of a Flow with JavaScript

A few points to remember

Exercises

Summary

4. Debugging and New Ways to Call a Flow

Debugging your Flow

Onscreen debugging

Inbuilt debugging tools

Using debug screens

Debug log

Setting the debug log filter

Who can run the Flow and how

Debugging insufficient privileges on the custom button/link

Embed a Flow into a Visualforce page

Invoke a Flow using Process Builder

Automating your business process

Hands on 1 – copying the record followers

Adding the Fast Lookup element to a Flow

Adding the Loop element to a Flow

Adding an Assignment element to a Flow

Adding the Fast Create element to a Flow

Hands on 2 – open a Flow for unauthenticated access

Customizing the Flow user interface

Hands on 3 – setting the finish behavior in the Visualforce page

Using the URLFOR function

Using the $Page variable

Using a controller

Hands on 4 – accessing a Flow through Salesforce1

Through the Salesforce1 navigation menu

Through publisher actions

Hands on 5 – setting the Flow variables value from a Visualforce page

Without a controller

With the standard controller

With the custom controller

Call a Flow using the custom controller

Hands on 6 – invoking a Flow using an Inline Visualforce page

Hands on 7 – using a Flow to save the data from the Visualforce page

A few points to remember

Exercises

Summary

5. Developing Applications with Process Builder

An overview of Process Builder

Business problems

An overview of the Process Builder user inte...