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How to use Screen Flow as a List View Button to Edit Multiple Records at once in Salesforce? In this post we will see how to use a Screen Flow in a List view in Salesforce. There are many use cases where you need to perform some custom action on multiple records in a List View in Salesforce. We will see how to create a custom List View Button using a Screen Flow in Salesforce to perform actions on multiple selected records at once. We will see how to Pass Selected Records from a List View to a Flow . Based on these passed records from List View to a Screen Flow, we will just use the Flow to do perform desired business logic.

In this post we will see how to use Not Contains (Does Not Contain)  function or operator in Salesforce Flows. Also, we will see a Workaround to use Not Starts With and Not Ends With operators in Salesforce Flows. All these operators are not available directly in Flow Elements but we can use Custom Condition Logic in Flows to implement these. We will go through an efficient "Does not Contain" workaround  by using  Custom Condition Logic in Salesforce Flows. If you work on Flows in Salesforce, you might have come across scenarios where you need to put/use condition logics to filter data like : checking if a particular field contains some particular text or if value of field starts or ends with a particular text or number. These are useful and powerful operators while working on Flows in Salesforce and are available to apply in Flow Elements directly.  But what if you wanted to check the opposite of it? Somebody messaged me directly to get answer to this so I thought...

In this post we will use a simple hack to Test and Debug Record Triggered Flows in Salesforce. This debugging hack will work for After Insert Flows, After Update Flows and Before Delete Record Triggered Flows. We will see how to easily get Debug Logs or Flow Execution Logs while Testing Record Triggered Flows.

In this blog, I am going to show how to use Hierarchy Custom Setting in a Flow. We will see how to avoid Hard Coding values in a Flow which frequently change. Also, we will see how to maintain different values for a same parameter for different profiles/users using custom settings.

In this blog I am going to show how to use and call Salesforce Flows from list views. We will see how can we pass Selected records from a List View into a Flow in order to perform actions on multiple records like Mass Update,Mass Delete or Insert etc.

In this blog I am going to demonstrate how to Clone Records with all the field values using Screen Flows and Auto-Launched Flows in Salesforce. By the end you will get good idea  about some of the features of Screen flows, Auto-launched flows and how to join flows.

Salesforce Lightning Flows: Easy and Powerful Where will you love to Fly Post Lockdown? Checkout a simple Travel Survey App created using Screen Flows and nothing else. This is to showcase how simple and powerful flows can be. I will be posting about how I created this in my next blog!Till then checkout the power and simplicity of Lightning Flows! Click here to Checkout Survey App & Demo! Please Subscribe or Follow for future updates as I am planning to share more stuff around Flows,LWC and Salesforce in future. A bit of motivation and encouragement goes a long way. Subscribe using your email at the top of the page.  

In this blog I am going to talk about the After Save Flow in Salesforce. These are the latest addition in Flow Trigger capability of Salesforce. Salesforce Flow Triggers : Create Record Triggered Flow that Run After Save Salesforce Summer'20 release is here with many exciting features and enhancements and as always we have all the reasons to be excited. Continuing on my Flow Series, in this blog I am going to showcase one of the most exciting enhancement to the flow capability in this release- Automated Flow Triggers - To perform automatic actions after a record is saved.  Gone are the days when we had to write triggers or multiple process builders or a combination of flows and process builders for every small automation. Most of the not so complex use cases can be easily achieved now by creating flow triggers. In the previous release, Salesforce introduced  Before Save Trigger option for Flows which is great for validations and updates before saving the reco...