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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 a collection variable


Collection variables are used to store multiple values of similar data types. For example, a group of e-mail addresses. Once you have populated a collection variable with values, you can use it throughout the Flow.

An example business scenario: Helina Jolly is working as a system administrator in Universal Container. Currently, she is developing a Visual Workflow and wants to create a variable to store customers' e-mail addresses to send out an e-mail to them.

To create a collection variable in your Flow, follow these instructions:

  1. Navigate to Setup | Build | Create | Workflow & Approvals | Flows.

  2. Click on the New Flow button; it will open the Flow canvas for you.

  3. Then navigate to the Resources tab, and double-click on Collection Variable available under the CREATE NEW section. It will open a window for you, where you have to enter the following details:

    • Unique Name: Enter the unique name. The name must begin with a letter and use only alphanumeric characters...

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