Make the Transition to Salesforce Flow
(part 5 of 5)
It’s Transition to Flow time!
Salesforce is retiring Workflow rules and Process Builder in the near future. The time to start planning to move your Salesforce automations to Flow is now. In this series of articles, I will explain why this change is occurring, what you need to do and I will even provide you with a plan to migrate all your workflows and Process Builder to Flow.
Implement your plan
Implement your flow transition plan, document each flow as you go and measure your progress so you can report on it and track your success.
Implement
Implementing your flow transition plan involves picking suitable processes or workflows and rewriting them using flow. You do not need to pick the most complex flows first; you may find it better to start with some simple flows first so your team gains confidence and experience before attempting the more complex ones.
Migrate:
There is a migration tool to convert both Process Builder and Workflow Rules on UnofficialSF.com. Salesforce have announced their intention to provide similar tools in the future.
Test
It is important to perform rigorous testing to ensure that the new flows do what is required and the performance is as good if not better than the automation being replaced.
This testing should be performed in a sandbox environment.
The more data this sandbox contains, the better. A large data set with all the related records could impact performance or functionality. Something that appears to work fine in a sandbox with a few records may fail in one with a large amount of data or with records that may be inaccurate or incomplete.
There are two types of testing required:
Unit Testing
Performed by the admin/developer that created the flow to ensure that the individual flow does what it is required to do.
User Acceptance Testing
Performed by the user to ensure that the business process that they are performing (that triggers or uses the flow) produces the results required and is acceptable from a user perspective.
Document
Flow does not offer much in the way of being able to document your flow inside the flow itself (it’s no worse than Process Builder or Workflow Rules). Where you can, use variable names that describe what they contain and name assignments, sub-flows and record actions as descriptively as you can.
Measure
Measure and report on your progress. This is important for both the team and your management to be able to see how well the transition is progressing.
Monitor
Monitor your converted flows to see how they are performing and solicit feedback from your users. Join the Salesforce Trailblazer group – Lightning Flow Discussions to identify any improvements and new features that are added to Flow.
You can get started on your Flow training here:
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