Optimizing and Troubleshooting Flows

So far, we have learned the building blocks of Flow Builder, understood the intricacies of various flow types, and observed the power of Salesforce flows. We gained insight into how to transform and automate business needs and processes and create an amazing user experience. Now, it is time to ensure that your flows are optimized, working as intended with minimal or no issues, and meeting your business needs.

In this chapter, we will explore and learn how to use the Flow Builder debug window to optimize and troubleshoot flows. Anything developed either declaratively or using code will run into some kind of bug, and you need a tool to be able to understand the error message and what it means. We will discuss a few scenarios to effectively debug and make sense of the flow for the users.

In this chapter, we will cover the following sections:

• Learning about the Flow debug window
• Understanding flow errors
• Practical scenario –...