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Salesforce Fast Flow Updates: Like BEFORE Triggers

02 Jan 2020 🔖 salesforce flow architecture
💬 EN

I’m super excited about Before-Save Updates / Fast Field Updates in Salesforce Flow Builder in the Salesforce Spring ‘20 release.

Salesforce’s release notes can tell you how to set them up, but I noticed a few things when playing with it myself and wanted to catalog a few observations.

Note that you have to double-click the “Start” element (the circle with the right-facing triangle) in Flow Builder to find the screen where you set an autolaunched flow to leverage this functionality.

At the moment, the only elements you get are:

  • Logic
    • Assignment
    • Decision
    • Loop
  • Data
    • Get Records

Manager - New Resource - Resource Type

  • Variable
  • Constant
  • Formula
  • Text Template
  • Stage

Gone are the elements:

  • Interaction
    • Action
    • Subflow
  • Logic
    • Pause
  • Data
    • Create Records
    • Update Records
    • Delete Records

Gone are the resource types, though they’re not in any user-launched flows…

  • Choice
  • Record Choice Set
  • Picklist Choice Set
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