Introduction to Lightning Process Builder
Lightning Process Builder is a workflow automation tool that allows you to automate business processes. At the time of writing the capabilities of Lightning Process Builder is evolving, but the tool allows you to generate a graphical representation of the process as it is developed and built.
Lightning Process Builder allows you to carry out the following:
Create processes using a user-friendly, visual interface layout with point-and-click features.
Design a full end-to-end process in one location instead of multiple dependent workflow rules.
Automate some simple actions that previously needed Apex development and apply the clicks not code approach.
At the time of writing, the usefulness and capabilities of the Lightning Process Builder tool hovers between the two other workflow automation tools of Workflows and Visual Workflows (covered in detail earlier in this chapter) and perhaps is the future tool for Salesforce.
Due to the current limitations and...
