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Business Process Automation with Salesforce Flows

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835089255
Pages 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Srini Munagavalasa Srini Munagavalasa
Profile icon Srini Munagavalasa

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding Business Requirements and Automation Needs
2. Chapter 1: Process Flows – Understanding Business Requirements 3. Chapter 2: Identification of Functional Requirements for Automation 4. Chapter 3: Business Process Features to Automate 5. Part 2: Business Process Automation in Salesforce
6. Chapter 4: Flow Building Blocks, Triggering, and Entry Conditions 7. Chapter 5: Salesforce Order of Execution 8. Chapter 6: Types of Salesforce Flows 9. Chapter 7: Flows Using Apex Sharing 10. Chapter 8: Optimizing and Troubleshooting Flows 11. Part 3: Flow Orchestration
12. Chapter 9: Flow Orchestration 13. Chapter 10: Compose and Orchestrate Business Processes 14. Assessments 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5, Salesforce Order of Execution

  1. The case assignment rule wins. As we saw in the Salesforce platform Order Of Execution (OOE) section, Step 9 runs after Step 3 and this value shall be overwritten:
    • Step 3 executes before-save, record-triggered flows
    • Step 9 executes assignment rules
  2. Yes, for the most part, we can control flow execution. Salesforce Flow automation runs in the following order:
    1. Flows with the same trigger with values from 1 to 1,000 run in ascending order.
    2. Flows with the same trigger order value run in alphabetical order based on the flows’ API names.
    3. Flows that are unordered run next based on created dates.
    4. Flows with trigger order values from 1,001 to 2,000 run next and in ascending order.
  3. Learning this order ensures data consistency and helps avoid unexpected issues. When multiple automations such as workflows, assignment rules, escalation rules, and triggers are in place, it is crucial to know the sequence in which Salesforce processes these automations...
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