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Types of Salesforce Flows

This chapter will explore the five basic types of flows to automate our business processes. You will gain a deep understanding of scenarios for each of the flow types – screen flows, record-triggered flows, schedule-triggered flows, platform event-triggered flows, and autolaunched flows. We can create flows that let users interact with a user interface, initiated by screen flow, and run them automatically based on Data Manipulation Language (DML) actions. We will explore scheduled flows that can be scheduled at a future time and frequency, as well as platform event triggers that are triggered based on platform event messages.

We will cover the following Salesforce flow sections:

  • The five basic types of flows in Salesforce: ...

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