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Hi! I am looking to create a flow that updates multiple objects at once. Any recommendations on which courses will best help guide me?

I plan to create a quick action button, insert the data once and have it auto update multiple objects including creating an event/activity.

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Kundan Kumar Jha (Infosys)
9月26日 2:41
Hi Amy,

Salesforce has a full official trail for exactly this: Build Flows with Flow Builder. For your specific use case (one screen action → create/update records on several objects, including an Activity), here's the path in order:

1. Get Started with Flow Builder — the basics: screen flows, quick actions, adding a flow to a record's action bar. Start here if you haven't built a screen flow before.

2. Build Screen Flows — collecting input from the user in one screen (this is your "insert the data once" part).

3. Updating and Retrieving Multiple Records in Flows — this module covers exactly your core need: using Get Records, collection variables, and Update Records/Create Records to touch multiple objects from a single flow run, not just one record at a time.

4. Transform Multiple Records in Flow Builder — if any of your updates involve reshaping a set of selected records before writing them (e.g., mapping selected rows to a different object's fields), this covers the Transform element, which is the modern replacement for looping through an Update Records element.

For the "creating an Event/Activity automatically" part specifically: that's just a Create Records element for the Task/Event object added after your other Create/Update Records elements in the same flow — no separate module needed, it's covered as part of the Create Records action once you're through the modules above.

Practical structure for what you're describing:
- Screen element to collect the input once
- Get Records (if you need to look up related records first)
- Create Records / Update Records elements for each target object (Task/Event, and whichever other objects need updating)
- All wired to a single Screen Flow launched from a Quick Action button on your source object's page layout

If your objects have parent-child relationships (e.g., updating several child records tied to one parent), the Repeater component module (Create and Update Records Efficiently with Repeater) is also worth a look if users need to enter multiple rows of data in one screen rather than just one record's worth of fields.

Reference:
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/trails/build-flows-with-flow-builder

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9月14日 15:03

Convert field formula into a button formula

I have a screen flow that I'd like users to be able to access two different ways: from a field on the Opportunity Product object, as well as a Detail Page Button. What's paramount is where the screen flow returns at its end: I need it to end on a view of the product related list on the related Opportunity record. I got it to work successfully on the field version. Here's my formula field:

HYPERLINK("/flow/Opportunity_Product_Screen_Flow_Clone_Opportunity_Product" &"?recordId=" &Id &"&retURL=/lightning/r/Opportunity/" & OpportunityId & "/related/OpportunityLineItems/view",

"CLONE",

"_self"

)

But for the life of me, I can't get the Button version of the URL to go back to the Product related list. I figured out that I can't reference the Opportunity Id via merge field in this scenario, so I created a formula field called Opportunity_Id__c, which just utilizes a CASESAFEID version of the Opportunity Id.

In order to save time, here is a list of the various versions I've tried that DON'T work: