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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow

You're reading from   Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow Click your way to automating your various business processes using Salesforce Visual Workflow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785289835
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakesh Gupta Rakesh Gupta
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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 Applications without Code Index

Creating applications with Process Builder


Before Process Builder was available, to automate complex business processes in Salesforce, knowledge of Apex and Visualforce was required. After completion of this chapter, you will get a clear-cut idea of how to automate business processes using Process Builder and minimize the need for Apex code. Now we will discuss how to use Process Builder to automate business processes.

Hands on 1 – autocreate a child record

It's a common business requirement to autocreate a child record whenever the parent record gets created. For example, as soon as an account gets activated, we need to autocreate an Opportunity for that account and set the Opportunity close date to the last date of the current quarter. To satisfy these types of business requirements, a developer normally writes an Apex trigger, but there are few other ways through which you can achieve this without writing code:

  • Process Builder

  • A combination of Flow and Process Builder

  • A combination of Flow...

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