Hands-on workshop session held at YeurDreamin' in Amsterdam, June 14, 2019 by Christian Szandor Knapp (Lead Salesforce Developer, appero GmbH) and Daniel Stange (Technical Architect, DIA die.interaktiven)
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Agenda
- Why wow people?
- When to flow and not to flow
- The Simple Wows in LEX
- Easy Advanced Wows
with Flows and Lightning Components
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When to flow
Reading, Aggregating for
Display
That’s what we will be focusing on today
Decision Trees, Scripts, Data
Entry Wizards
Insert many Visualforce use cases here
Single Record Updates triggered
from UI
Insert many JS Button use cases here
Screen Flows are
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When not to flow
Anything bulkified
CPU Time conundrums
Substituting Triggers
One context is not enough
Basically anything without a
screen
This might change soon, though
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Gotchas and Challenges
Flow Lightning Runtime
otherwise you keep the ‘classic chique’
Flow User Permission
Edit User or assign Permission
Record Page Refresh
I edited the record, my flow did not
refresh - your take-home challenge
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How many clicks/steps do I need…?
To display an image
~ on a record...
~ on a record conditionally...
~ on a record conditionally and
looking well-placed...
in Salesforce Classic?
I need
- lots of Static Resource or
secure img URLs
- a formula field
- IMAGE and CASE formulas
- Patience
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How many clicks/steps do I need…?
To display an image
~ on a record...
~ on a record conditionally...
~ on a record conditionally
and looking well-placed...
in Lightning Experience?
Lightning
rocks!
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Let’s build something cool for your screen flows!
Find our Github repo at https://github.com/szandor72/YD19-WowFlow
Step by Step Wiki at https://github.com/szandor72/YD19-WowFlow/wiki
Hands On
START HERE!
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Stand On The Shoulder Of Giants
‘Unofficial Flow’
https://sites.google.com/view/flowunofficial/flow-components
Explore Ohana
https://github.com/DouglasCAyers/sfdc-reloadable-flow-component
Salesforce is constantly releasing new flow screen
components
No need to re-invent the wheel
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Where should you take it from here?
Explore Unofficial Flow
▪ https://sites.google.com/view/flowunofficial/flow-components
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Have you heard of LWCs?
Web Development on the platform is on the rise
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Join us for drinks
@18:00 sponsored
by
Community sponsors:
Christian Szandor Knapp
appero GmbH - @ch_sz_knapp
Daniel Stange
DIA die.interaktiven - @stangomat
NonProfit-track sponsor: