Flow Automation for Developers

Salesforce Platform FoundationsFlow Automation for DevelopersA developer's guide to Salesforce Flow: every flow type, how the runtime bulkifies interviews, $Record and entry conditions, fault handling, Apex interop in both directions, LWC screen components, testing and debugging, and how to make flows and triggers coexist on the same object.Intermediate · about 80 minutesWhat you will learn

Choose the right flow type (screen, record-triggered before/after-save, async and scheduled paths, schedule-triggered, autolaunched, platform event-triggered, orchestration) for a requirement

Explain how the Flow runtime bulkifies interviews and design flows that stay inside governor limits

Use $Record, $Record__Prior and entry conditions to fire automation only when it is needed

Build robust fault paths, custom errors and logging for flows

Call Apex from Flow and Flow from Apex, and build a custom LWC screen component

Test and debug flows with Flow tests, the Flow debugger and debug logs

Decide between Flow and Apex and design a coexistence strategy for triggers and flows on the same object

Contents

Why developers must understand Flow

The flow types

Flow building blocks

Bulkification: how the Flow runtime batches interviews

Fault paths and error handling

Subflows and reuse

Calling Apex from Flow

Calling flows from Apex

Screen flows with custom LWC components

Testing flows

Debugging flows

Workflow Rules and Process Builder: end of support

Flow or Apex?

Triggers and flows on the same object

Worked example: closed-won onboarding

Best practices

Common pitfalls

Hands-on exercises

Key takeaways