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Salesforce Admins love to automate, and I’m so excited to share updates in Winter ’23 that will give admins even MOAR ways to automate with Flow Builder.
At long last, the In/Not In operators arrive to Get Records, Delete Records, and Update Records elements. Get rid of those nasty queries within your loops and scale with higher data volumes with these new operators. On the right-hand side of an In operator, you can use collections of type Text, Number, Date, DateTime, and Currency. Record Collection references are not yet supported.
You’ll now be able to do a query like, “Get me all Contact Records IN this collection of country names” or “Get me a list of all contacts using this collection of Ids”.
We released our new Formula checker in Summer ’22 for record-triggered flow entry criteria and have now expanded it to formula resources and Collection Filter! Validate that your formulas are in the correct format before saving your flow for a fantastic time-saver and peace of mind.
When adding new elements in Auto-Layout, you’ll now be able to search across all flow elements and actions to quickly find what you need.
Need to move an element in Auto-Layout? Take advantage of cutting and pasting individual elements in Flow without switching into Free-form.
When in Auto-Layout, the resource panel will now be hidden by default and can be expanded/collapsed to save screen real estate when you need to view more of your flow.
You asked, we’re delivering! In October 2021, we asked you for feedback about our screen flow roadmap, and the #1 request was an official Datatable component. Due to the overwhelming responses and consistently high usage of custom Datatable components across all screen flows, we decided to bump it up in priority.
In Winter ’23, we’ll have a native Data Table available in Flow! Easily create tables of record data in Flow to enable users to select and view, with as many fields as you need displayed in the table. Select your record collection, pick your fields, and you’re done!
More room for screen buildingOpen up the screen flow editor–notice anything? Yep, we’ve now made the screen editor significantly larger, giving you more space to create awesome screen flows.
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Winter ’23
Drag your record fields directly into screen flows with Dynamic Forms for Flow, now Generally Available (GA)! We spent this release polishing up under-the-hood with some added features, shown below, and will continue to bring more field types to Dynamic Forms over time.
Get hyped! Picklists in Dynamic Forms for Flow are now record type aware upon entering the screen!
If a record resource has its RecordTypeId field set when entering a screen, any picklist values that are dependent on a record type will now display the correct picklist values. If no record type ID is set, the picklist will display all values. This addresses a 12,000+ points IdeaExchange idea and long-standing Flow request that we’re excited to deliver.
When creating a new record resource from the Fields tab, we now automatically jump you to the right resource (Variable → Record) type. Before, you had to go through a number of hoops before getting to the right resource type. This will make the process far easier for newer users and far faster for experienced builders.
Before this release, conditional field visibility did not react to conditions that referenced components or fields that were on the same screen. Now, conditional field visibility in Dynamic Forms for Flow behaves as expected.
Ever wish your users could select multiple records with the Lookup component? Is a Data Table too much for some basic use cases? Users can now select multiple records with the Lookup screen component! You’ll notice two new inputs: Maximum Selections and Record ID Collection.
This new multi-select capability pairs nicely with the new In operator. Just perform a Get Records to convert the user’s selection (a Text Collection of IDs output) into a workable record collection.
The Apex-defined data type affords you a flexible way to represent complex data that isn’t well-modeled by the sObjects in your org. Customers often use the Apex-defined data type to represent external web objects, so that they can integrate with external web services either entirely declaratively through Flow and External Services, or with a mixed code & clicks pattern through Flow and invocable Apex.
Now, you can represent your external data as Choices using Collection Choice Sets that are Apex-defined types.
You can now embed screen flows directly inside Lightning web components (LWCs)! Reduce your Aura footprint and offload pieces of your custom components to Flow with the new ‘lightning-flow’ component.
The component behaves virtually the same as the Aura lightning:flow component with one exception—in the LWC version, we’ve resolved an issue with finish behavior that consumed unnecessary FlowInterview instances under certain conditions.
One of the few remaining gaps with Process Builder is the ability to easily update Related Records of the triggering record. While it was possible before, users coming from Process Builder may find this method more at home.
Now, you can select a new option in an Update element in a record-triggered flow: Update records related to the [object] record that triggered the flow.
From there, you can then select the relationship, or children, you want to update.
As with Process Builder, you’ll also be able to specify criteria for which children to update.
Migrate more of your workflow rules (WFRs) to Flow with the new ISCLONE() function support!
The Create New Workflow Rules button will be removed for most people in Winter ’23. It’s time to move to Flow!
New offset options let you schedule the path to run on the same calendar day of another month. Previously, you could specify offsets only in days, hours, and minutes.
No-code testing is now GA, and with it comes support for creating Scheduled Path tests and packaging compatibility.
Admins can now create automated tests to ensure their flows don’t break when other members of their team (or their future selves) make changes.
Flow Tests allow you to set up assertions or ‘assumptions’ about your results that you want to always stay the same. Those assertions protect your future self or others on the team from making costly mistakes in the future.
Don’t forget to watch the Winter ’23 Admin Preview on September 22 during Release Readiness Live to see demos of a subset of these new, exciting features. Be sure to check out the Learn MOAR Winter ’23 for Admins Trailmix and follow along on the blog this week for more Learn MOAR!
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