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.
Salesforce mascots Astro, Codey and Ruth headed off to Camp Trailhead to have a weekend away. They had just attended three crazy days of Dreamforce, performed with the Foo Fighters, had selfies taken with all sorts of friendly strangers and walked a mile in bare […]
Two new features are coming to Salesforce Flow in the Winter ’22 release: 1) Sub-flows support for Record Triggered flows. Only available with after-save flows but they permit reusable sub-flows, reducing complexity and improving debugging. Break large flows into more manageable parts with subflows also […]
It it really worth the time and effort to study and achieve Salesforce certifications or is it just to pamper one’s own ego?
Here is a (relatively) simple example of how to create a roll-up summary that counts how many contacts that exist for a given account and keeps this number up to date as you add/edit/delete contacts that are related to this account. You can easily take […]
Credit Card Application Build a screen form (two columns with conditional fields) Create an Account record Create a Contact record (and link to account) Create an Opportunity (and link to account/contact) Depending on card type and the limit applied for: Automatically approve -OR- Create a […]
There was a question this week in the Salesforce Learners Facebook group asking how to remove text characters from a mixed string of text characters and digits, leaving just the numeric digits. How I can seperate out only numbers from a TEXT using formula field. […]
I got a question earlier today about how can we check if a user has added a file to a Salesforce record. While this solution is not a perfect result because we don’t know the contents of the file to see if they uploaded the […]
Coming in the Salesforce Summer ’21 release is a new way to add fields to a flow screen element. Instead of manually configuring and adding new fields to a Screen element, you can use the new Fields selector. Now, before you get too excited about […]
I had a challenge today at work. I needed to display a list of Open Opportunities and Open Cases for any given Account. The aim was to give an account manager a quick view of what Opportunities and Cases were currently in progress for the […]
