Salesforce Fact #9 | Flow tweak

Suppose we have a use case: we have to update the description of certain account records daily and we are using auto-launched flow for this.

Now, we have get records and update records element in auto launched flow which we can use for this scenario. So we may think like we will first fetch the records using a get records element and then we will iterate through each of the account record and populate the description field. And in the end, we will update the data using the same set of record which has been returned from get records element.

But here is the tweak, if we have a use case where we are fetching the data in the flow, doing some modification and then have to update the same records, we cannot rely on the get records result set. We have to create one more collection variable and add each record in it once the description is updated. Also we have to use two separate assignment element one for updating the description of the current iterated record and the second one for adding the record to the new collection.

And finally we will update the records using the new collection variable.

Attached is the flow image.