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Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder

You're reading from   Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow and Process Builder Flows and automation for enhanced business productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787284999
Length 448 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rakesh Gupta Rakesh Gupta
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Visual Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Flow through Point and Click 3. Manipulating Records in Visual Workflow 4. Debugging and New Ways to Call a Flow 5. Developing Applications with Process Builder 6. Building Efficient and Performance Optimized Processes 7. Building Applications without Code 8. Enabling Flows to Work with Lightning Experience

Hands on 4 - calling an Apex class from Process Builder

Process Builder allows you to call an Apex class that includes methods annotated with @InvocableMethod. By calling an Apex class from Process Builder, you can add customized functionality such as, auto-converting leads, deleting records, or running lead assignment rules from Process Builder. You can also pass the required value into Apex class variables.

When no other process actions can get your job done, by calling an Apex method, you add customized functionality to your users. You can only call an Apex class from Process Builder or Visual Workflow that have the @InvocableMethod annotation. This means that it is possible to extend the Process Builder functionality by writing an Apex class that executes your business logic and then invoking the Apex from your process. If the class contains one or more invocable variables, then you have to manually enter values...

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