Flow tips

At a high level, as an administrator, you need to consider the following when designing flows:

• Flows launched by another flow via a sub-flow element count as one flow interview.
• Flows from managed packages cannot be opened.
• Session timeouts will impact your flows; if the user session expires, flows in progress are interrupted and cannot be resumed.
• Publicly accessible screen input fields should not be mapped to rich text fields to prevent malicious URLs. Remove all HTML tags.
• When designing flows, consider which fields are accessible to your users. Some users may not have access to certain fields, and other users may have access to those fields.
• Flows fail when a filter condition from a Get/Update record element references a null value. Use a decision element to check if the value is null before referencing it in the filter condition.
• Salesforce does not save flow changes automatically. You must explicitly save them often so as not to lose...