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Salesforce Summer '21 Release is here soon. Let's see some of the Latest and New Flow Features and Enhancements in Summer 21 Salesforce Release. This post is to give you an idea about the New Flow Features in Salesforce Summer 21 Release.

Salesforce Flow Get Values from Checkbox Group. In this post we will see how to Parse and use the values from a Multi Select Checkbox Group on a Screen Flow. Salesforce Flow Multi Select Checkbox can used for many use cases. We will use a Record Choice Set to show Multiple Checkboxes on Flow Screen and display Record values as choices or checkboxes. After that we will explore a way to use the selected values from the Record Choice Set to perform actions like Looping over the Checkbox Group values.  Let's see how to use the Salesforce Flow Checkbox Group Output effectively. 

In this post we will see how to Parse the  Multi-Select Picklist  Values in a Flow . Parsing the Multi-Select Picklist Selected values in a Flow is required where we need to use Selected Multi Select Picklist values later inside the Flow for Loop and various use cases like as a Collection variable t o Loop on them. We will Assign the Multi Select Picklist Values to a Collection Variable. We will also see Salesforce Flow Loop through Multi Select Picklist in this article. Best part is that you just need to download an Apex Action to use this Feature .

Update Multiple Records in Flow Salesforce . In this post we will talk about ways to Bulkify Flows to Update Multiple Records   .This is also known as Flow Bulk Update or Bulk Update / Mass Update of Records using Flows . Concept of Salesforce Flow Update using Record Collection Variable will be explored in this post. We will also see how to use Salesforce Flow Loop Update Records feature. Also, we'll talk about some Flow Loops Best Practises. 

Navigate to an URL by clicking an Image in Salesforce Screen Flows. In this post we will see how to add and Display Image on a Salesforce Flow Screen. Also, we will make the Image in Screen Flow Clickable to navigate to a web page or a URL link. We will be first adding  Image on a Salesforce Flow Screen and then embed a Link url to it. This will make the Flow Image Clickable to navigate to any URL.  We will achieve this clickable image on the Flow Screen without writing any code or adding any Lightning Component.

Is changed in Flows Salesforce and Prior Value in Flows :  Spring' 21 Salesforce Release has introduced a new and exciting Flow feature which is Record   Prior Value variable in Record Triggered Flows. This basically means that now we can see and use the Old Values (old field values) of the Record that fired the Flow and Compare old and new values of record in Record Triggered Flows . Salesforce Flow Prior Value feature can be used for many use cases and scenarios which were previously only possible using an Apex Trigger. In this post we will see the  use of  Prior/Old Record Value variable using an After Update Record Triggered Flow . We will implement  Is Changed   in After Update Record Triggered Flow .

How to Copy a File from one object to another using Flows in Salesforce? How to copy a File Link from one Record to another in Salesforce Flow? In this article we see how to use Loops in a Flow and how to use Assignment Elements in a Flow through this Use Case -  Share or Copy a File from one Record/Object to another in Salesforce . Basically, we will see how to Share a specific File with Multiple Records which also includes a way to Copy a File from One Object to Another in Salesforce .There are many ways to achieve this (like using Apex etc.), but we will do File Sharing / Cloning  using Flows . In this article, I will use an After Update Record Triggered Flow  to show this use case.