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What Is a Platform Event-Triggered Flow?

What Is a Platform Event-Triggered Flow?

Admins, have you ever needed to have actions taken in Salesforce if something happens in an external system? Have you ever needed to log an error or notify people if an error occurs? If yes, then a platform event-triggered flow might be what you need. In this post, we’ll provide a high-level overview of a […]

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What Is a Schedule-Triggered Flow?

What Is a Schedule-Triggered Flow?

As an admin, you may be given business requirements to perform some type of automation, like maintain your org’s data or complete routine tasks (for example, send an email reminder) on a scheduled time and frequency, such as daily or weekly. Or, you might just need to run automation once on a batch of records. […]

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What Is a Screen Flow?

As an admin, there may be times where you want to simplify the process of gathering data from your end users by improving the user experience. This involves minimizing the number of screens and clicks needed to get the job done and increasing the overall efficiency of the process. You want to flex those declarative […]

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What Is a Subflow?

Ever find yourself building the same automation steps to solve different use cases, which results in slightly different flow solutions? So now you have clones of the same automation steps hanging out in multiple flows. And then, goodness forbid you have to make a change to those steps in all those flows? That can be […]

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What Is an Autolaunched Flow?

Flows are such powerful tools to add to your #AwesomeAdmin toolbelt. They can do a LOT of things and that can be a bit overwhelming especially if you’re new to flow. You’ve probably heard about autolaunched flows, but what are they? You’ve come to the right place. We’re going to give you a high-level overview […]

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