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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder

You're reading from   Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder Flows and automation for enhanced business productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787284999
Length 448 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rakesh Gupta Rakesh Gupta
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Visual Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Flow through Point and Click 3. Manipulating Records in Visual Workflow 4. Debugging and New Ways to Call a Flow 5. Developing Applications with Process Builder 6. Building Efficient and Performance Optimized Processes 7. Building Applications without Code 8. Enabling Flows to Work with Lightning Experience

Hands on 4 - understanding Subflow and the Wait element

Subflow allows us to embed an existing Flow into another Flow. You can use Subflow input and output assignments to transfer data between the master Flow and the referenced Flow, whereas the Wait element can only be used in an auto-launched Flow to create a time-dependent action, for example, to send an e-mail to the Opportunity owner 10 days after the Opportunity close date. To understand Subflow, we have to create a master Flow first.

Creating a master Flow

Let's look at a business scenario. Sara Bareilles is working as a system administrator at Universal Containers. She wants to use Flow to create an Opportunity and set the Opportunity fields according to the following requirements:

  • Close Date: Today...
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