Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow

Hands on 7 – creating schedule jobs using a Flow

Scheduled jobs are automated portions of work that can be performed at either a particular time or on a recurring schedule. For example, a business wants to run a daily job at night to send out an e-mail to Opportunity owners within one week of the Opportunity close date. You can also solve a few of them using Flow and Process Builder.

A business scenario: Sara Bareilles is working as a system administrator in Universal Container. She has received a requirement to create a schedule job that will run every night at 11:00 P.M. to add all new users created on that day to the Chatter group Sales Executive. Currently, the administrator has to manually add new users to the Chatter group Sales Executive ...