Why Flow with Salesforce Flow

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Why?

Why Flow With Salesforce Flow
Visual flow can be summed up as an
app inside the Salesforce app.
To be more precise, a Flow is a wizard
or a set of screens in sequential
order which can be used to complete
a business process.

Why Flow With Salesforce Flow
This business process can be anything
like
• filling out a form, or
• working on a script, or
• even filling out a survey.
The Flow has the ability to fetch, edit, and create
all Salesforce information in an appealing, quick
and smart manner.

Difference between Salesforce.com Flow
and Workflow

Salesforce.com Flow vs Workflow
Salesforce Flow or Visual Workflow is often confused with a
feature named Workflow in Salesforce.
They may be similar in certain fashion such as assisting in
automating a business process, but in essence they both are
different

Visual Workflow is more of a
front-end based tool.
It is mainly used when you
have to display or collect
information through screens
making it more visible to the
users.
Workflow on the other
hand execute pre-defined
rules behind the scenes.
They are used to process
information rather than
collecting it.

Visual Workflows are
triggered by user actions.
You can also Autolaunch
Flows i.e. start a Flow without
user interaction.
Workflows are mainly
triggered by events

Flows can fetch, delete,
update or even create records
on multiple objects.
Workflows are defined to
affect only a single specified
object. The exception to this
is the case of Workflows
having to update fields on
specified object and its
related master records.

Flows can be used to execute a business logic, interact with
Salesforce Databases, call defined Apex classes and guide user
through screens. There are three main aspects of a Flow
creation process:
Designing
Management
Flow Runtime

➔ D e s i g n i n g
The main reason they are called Visual Workflows is because
Flows come with a drag-and-drop interface Flow designer called
Cloud Flow Designer.
It can be used to diagram a Flow, configure how the Flow
executes, and define what it affects…
… all this without writing a single line of code.

➔ M a n a g e m e n t
You can manage your created Flow through the setup area.
Through this you can edit your Flow’s properties, activate it,
deactivate it, delete your Flow or even trigger it at your will.

➔ F l o w R u n t i m e
• Once Flows are defined, users can run the Flow through any
user call-to-action like a button, tab, link,
• or even directly from the Flow URL.
You can also trigger Flows through an Apex class or a Flow
trigger workflow action.

You can create Flows and open Cloud Flow Designer by going through
the following steps
Salesforce->
Setup->
Create->
Workflow & Approvals->
Flows->New Flow

Using Flows to send an Email
One of the most useful application of
Flows is to send template-less emails
without even configuring other parts
of Salesforce.
You can use an email element to
send emails via Flow.

STEP 1: First create a Flow by going through the steps mentioned
above
App Setup-> Create-> Workflow & Approvals-> Flows-> New Flow.
STEP 2: Define a button in the pallet and then drag an email element
to the canvas.

STEP 3: If you are using
multiple email elements then
it’s best to enter unique
general settings to each
element to help differentiate
between each.
STEP 4: The next step is to specify the recipients for the email. The
email element allows you to send emails to five different addresses.

STEP 5: You can configure the Flow to
• enter literal values,
• enter merge field values,
• select and
• use an existing Flow resource, or
• even create a new Flow resource.
You can use these settings to configure the Body of the mail, Subject of the mail,
recipient email addresses, sender email addresses, and sender type.

Surveys using Flow
Flow are also quite useful for
creating, recording, and analyzing
surveys.
So I would be writing another post
focusing solely on creating and
analyzing a survey using Flow.
… So stay tuned!

Consult Coding Experts
Algoworks technologies has been working with Salesforce Flow since the
launch of the feature itself.
We are one of the best experienced Salesforce Developers and Consultants
Groups

Author
Co-Founder & Director
Open-Source | Salesforce | ECM
Pratyush is Co-Founder and Director at
Algoworks. He is responsible for managing,
growing open source technologies and
Salesforce CRM team .
He provides consulting and advisory to clients
looking for services relating to CRM(Customer
Relationship Management) and ECM(Enterprise
Content Management).
Pratyush Kumar
Write to me @ pratyush@algoworks.com

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