Exploring five basic types of flows in Salesforce
In Salesforce, there are five basic (core) types of flows available via the Flow Builder tool. They are as follows:
- Screen flow: This guides users through a business process interactively and can be launched from lightning pages, custom buttons, actions, custom links, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and Experience Builder pages. An example of a screen flow is service agents collecting data from customers that can be used to update records, such as shipping addresses, or create cases.
- Record-triggered flow: This is triggered by DML actions such as record, create, update, or delete. An example of a record-triggered flow is when the opportunity stage is won, you close all quotes related to the opportunity and notify the deal registration team.
- Schedule-triggered flow: This launches at a specified time and frequency for each record in a batch. The autolaunched flow runs in the background and is triggered based on parameters...