Flow

Audit fields in Salesforce track information about system values that can be useful for audit purposes. These fields are read only and Salesforce sets the values whenever you create or update a record.

In some cases, users might need to give a break while running a flow. It is possible to let the users pause the flow interviews and then resume whenever they want. Plus, they won't lose any valid information that they entered.

In Salesforce, all the standard and custom objects have three character prefixes. They form the first part of the Record Id. Standard objects always have the same record Id prefix. However, record Id prefix values of custom objects might vary in different environments.

Like the previous few releases, also Summer ’22 release has many great features for flows. Moreover, this release contains a long-awaited feature, which brings excitement to all the admins.

After some point it becomes hard to see the existing record-triggered flows running on the same object. To help you easily view all of your record-triggered flows by the object, Salesforce announced a new tool called Flow Trigger Explorer in the Spring '22 release.

The approval page is where an approver will actually approve or reject a request. It is not possible to edit the record directly from the approval page. However, you can build a screen flow to let them update the record directly from the approval page.

Salesforce announced that Workflow Rules and Process Builder will be deprecated in the near future. Therefore, it is time to start converting your existing workflow rules and Process Builder to flows. For this purpose, Salesforce released a new tool called Migrate to Flow Tool (Beta).

It is obvious that before save flows run before the after save flows. But in some cases you can have multiple flows with the same trigger type (before or after save) and the same start criteria. Or you can have flows without even a start criteria. So, which one will run before?

Email messages play an important role in Salesforce environments. In some cases it is important to track the email opens. You can use a flow to calculate the email open rate of a specific recipient.