We’ve gone back through our archive this week, returning to a post which still today proves amazingly popular, often topping our weekly page views stats. Here’s a new video version of “How to Create Rollup Summaries Using Flow”! Of course, we have upgraded to Lightning for this new video – just please forgive the few Read more about How To: Create Roll Up Summaries using Flow [Video][…]
Here we are with our final digest of the annual Salesforce megafest, AKA Dreamforce! For some of us this was our regular escape off to San Francisco for the learning event of the year – the equivalent intake of knowledge to an MBA degree in the space of four days – but for our Dreamforce Read more about Dreamforce Digest #4: Final Thoughts, Videos and Farewells[…]
In the second part of our Dreamforce Digest series, I wanted to share some information about what’s on Salesforce’s roadmap for the coming releases. For me, this is probably the biggest benefit I get out of Dreamforce each year: attending roadmap talks and the ever-popular True to the Core session with Parker Harris, Shawna Wolverton, Read more about Dreamforce Digest #2: The Future of Flow …and the Roadmap for the Rest[…]
Whether you’re lucky enough to be joining us in San Francisco for this year’s Dreamforce, or whether you’re already looking forward to catching up on the session recordings online, this is where you can find your Salesforce Weekly authors in action this year… Make the Jump to Lightning …And Get It Right First Time Mike Read more about Where to find Salesforce Weekly at Dreamforce 2017[…]
It’s beginning to look a lot like… DREAMFORCE! Only a few weeks to go now until the biggest Salesforce event of the year, and your Salesforce Weekly authors have been lucky enough to have had a session selected once again this year. We’re feeling even luckier this time around, not just because the competition for Read more about See Salesforce Weekly at Dreamforce 2016![…]
For over 100 cities across the world, last week was Lightning Week, where user groups shared information and demonstrations on the four new features introduced with Salesforce1 Lightning: Components, Connect, App Builder and Process Builder. But just how new is that last one? Well, the Process Builder UI, with its flow-chart style of layout, is Read more about Explaining and Exploiting the Process/Flow Relationship[…]
As part of our series of #FlowFeb blogs, we recently shared this example of how Flow can be used to help report on only the most recent child record. By creating a Most Recent Record checkbox field on the child object and using Flow to maintain this field across all records whenever a new one Read more about How To: Use Flow to Report on the Most Recent Record (Enhanced Setup and Extended Use Case)[…]
This month is quickly becoming Flow February here at Salesforce Weekly. Following Mike’s examples of how you can build (and improve) a flow to create your own rollup summary, here we are going to tackle another relatively common requirement – the ability to include only the most recent child record in a report – and see Read more about How To: Use Flow to Report on the Most Recent Record[…]
This year’s Dreamforce event hasn’t even run its course yet, and already there is much buzz in the community around some of the new features that have been announced. Here we will give a brief, immediate reaction to one that we believe is the future of declarative development on the Salesforce platform – the Read more about Process Builder: Welcome to the Future of Point-and-Click[…]