Salesforce Facts by Abhishek

We might encounter the below error while deploying a flow, which calls a subflow and accesses it's outputs: field integrity exception: unknown (the element has an invalid reference to The fix is to deploy the subflow first and then the main flow. Reference:  https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-community/feed/0D5KX00000Kg0LM0AZ

There's an issue with accessing the multi select picklist field on user object. While accessing it for the current user in flow's formula resource it doesn't work as expected. 1) It does not appear in the search result. However if we enter it manually, the formula gets saved. 2) The INCLUDES function does not work. Always returns FALSE, even when it is expected to return TRUE. The workaround is to use a Get Records on the User object and then use a decision element with Contains operator.

There can be multiple paused flow interviews of a flow and these paused versions do not allow to save new version of the flow. We can run a query on the FlowInterview object to fetch the paused flow interview of a particular flow and then delete those at once. The InterviewLabel field can be matched against the api name of the flow. Example query: Select Id FROM FlowInterview WHERE InterviewLabel LIKE '%<API name of flow>%' AND InterviewStatus = 'Paused' Reference:  https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000388016&type=1

While setting choice resource in radio button or picklist input in screen flow, we can make use of the quick create feature. In the choice input, we can simply enter the name of the choice and select the 'Create Choice' option. In the backend , it will create a choice resource with the entered value. Attached are the screenshots.

We can hide the screen flow action button based on component visibility. Suppose we need to make sure the action button once clicked it should get hidden. It should be visible again once the user comes back from any previous or next screen. For this, we can define a boolean variable in the subflow and also make use of the InProgress attribute of the screen action. These two values can be used in component visibility to show/hide the button. At the start the boolean variable is null and the inProgress attribute is null if the action button has been called once and we come back to the screen from any previous/next screen. Attached is the screenshot.

In some scenarios, we need to show the screen input element labels as formatted. For example, the label of a text input would be bold. For this, we can create a text template and put the formatted text and then refer this text template resource in the input label. Note: The extra <p> tags needs to be removed else the help text and required icons would get distorted. Attached are the screenshots.