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The Business of Flow - Point and Click Workflow Applications
1. The Business of Flow
Bill Takacs
Product Manager
btakacs@salesforce.com
Rich Englhardt
Senior Consultant – Veltig
Rich.Englhard@VeltigConsulting.com
Jeremiah Dohn
Business Systems Analyst
ACI Worldwide
@jmdohn
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5. Started using Salesforce March 21st, 2014
No coding experience, light HTML and CSS knowledge
Flownatic! – Using logic to be able to create complex business processes without
code!
About Me
6. Create complex business processes with Flow
No Test classes required
Point and Click Development Tools
7. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Customer Issue
• Reps were quoting through Microsoft Word.
• Quotes were incorrectly calculated, causing
undercharging or overcharging of customers.
• Wanted management to be able to approve
quotes in Salesforce.
• Opportunity needed a Contact and Account
needed an Address to create a Quote.
8. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Solution Requirements
• Create a Wizard to quickly and easily create quotes in Salesforce.
• Adjust pricing easily.
• Built in Salesforce to send to Management for Approvals.
• Require an Opportunity Contact and Address on the Account.
9. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Solution Overview
Flows to the rescue!!!
• Flows can called from a button click.
• Use a decision element to change behavior.
• Find and Create records.
Flows do not run in system mode – Person clicking the
button must have appropriate rights!
10. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Solution Overview - Steps
• Button to call the Flow
• Lookup the User (For Error Handling)
• Lookup the Opportunity information
• Lookup the Account – Is Account information filled out?
• If not, present Screen to add in Account Information, then
go to Quote entry.
• If yes, go to Quote entry.
• Present Quote detail information.
• Create Quote
11. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Solution Overview - Steps
• Present Products to User.
• Present Quantity and Pricing.
• Ask User to add more products or not
• If yes, go back to Present Products to User.
• When done adding products, Create Quote Line Items
and Update Quote.
12. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Getting Advanced – Visualforce Flow Page
Why?
• Send variables to the Flow.
• Redirect to record created in the Flow.
• Start to learn code!
• Use CSS to redesign the look and feel.
17. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Gotchas, Tips, and Tricks
• Make sure all Profiles have the Run Flows System
Permission turned on.
• Remember, Flows run in User Mode. So, individual
Field visibility and permissions may restrict a user from
running a Flow. To get around (if needed), use
Process Builder to launch the Flow as Process Builder
runs in System Mode.
18. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Gotchas, Tips, and Tricks
• Error Reporting – Quotes are high priority for
Salesreps
- Know the Opportunity, Account, and Rep in each
Error message if possible
• Require at least 1 product, trying to do an update on a
null Variable or sObject will give you an error!
• Use Flows to build your own roll-up fields
• Avoid governor limits, create all Quote Line Items at
the same time using an sObject Collection Variable.
19. Optimize, Delight, Liberate
Key Takeaways
• Admins are now able to do Point and Click development
• Complex business processes can be easily viewed through
the Flow overview (Like built in documentation)
• Developers can create Flows and allows Admins to make
changes as business processes change.
• Use Flows to build Wizards, Automate Processes, and
Create/Update/Delete Related and Nonrelated Records
• Flow IS Development!!! Make sure to do your own
testing!!!
23. An extensible survey solution – can be used for a variety of business units
Can change the look and feel for different surveys
Underlying survey can easily be configured easily for changing business needs
If the user doesn’t have the proper key, for security reasons, don’t allow completion of the survey
Most of all, make it “publically” available, aka internal / external clients can complete the survey
Requirements
24. Why flow?
Well, we need some visualforce to handle redirection of the page if there isn’t a survey record
(i.e. the record went poof or someone is trying to brute force).
Flow allows for configuration of:
• text displayed
• business processes
WITHOUT coding
Requirements
25. Okay, so what does that mean?
Less coding = more time to focus on other things
More time to focus on other things = agility
Agility = better satisfying business needs and customer satisfaction
Who doesn’t want a more satisfied customer?
Requirements
26. Just like building a strong a sturdy ship, there must be a good keel, or foundation
The framework is designed to meet a majority of uses:
1. The survey checks to see if the survey is valid
2. Does the survey exist?
3. Get the template and the questions to be asked
4. Ask the questions and get the choices
5. Assign the answers to the survey responses object
6. Confirm that the answers should be submitted
7. Thank the respondent
Solution
28. Public access settings
Remember that all objects must be visible to the user? The same holds true for public sites.
To fix:
Setup | Develop | Sites | Your Site Name | Public Access Settings
Gotchas!
29. Static Resources
If you want your static resource to be available for a “default” page, the cache setting must be set
to public.
To fix:
Setup | Develop | Static Resource | Your Static Resource
Gotchas!
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