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New Lightning Flow Blog Posts

Consolidating a slew of new lightning flow blog posts and how to guides from MVPs, Admins, Developer Evangelism and Flow PMs. Please read, review and share!

New Blog Post on Lightning Flow published on the Salesforce Developers Blog:

ICYMI @ TrailheaDX’18: 4 Session Videos About Process Automation Salesforce makes it simple to automate processes in your apps and make experiences seamless for your customers. As a developer, there is much more you can do with Lightning Flow. In addition to utilizing the tools in Lightning Flow — Process Builder and Cloud Flow Designer — you can use Apex when you need more functionality.

https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2018/06/icymi-trailheadx18-4-session-videos-about-process-automation.html

New Blog Post Authored by @Jennifer (Jen) Lee on using Stages to guide users through steps in a Flow:

https://jenwlee.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/flow-em-that-progress/

Flow ‘Em That Progress

(This blog post is written for Lightning Experience. Note: You can wrap lightning components in a visualforce page in Classic via Lightning Out. You will need to enlist the help of a developer for you to take advantage of the below.)

New Blog Post published by Terence Chiu on using Lightning Components in Flow Screens: https://terencechiu.com/2018/06/13/creating-lightning-components-for-flow-screens/

New Blog Post published by Richard @developingflow on Lightning Components in Flow Screens: https://developingflow.com/2018/06/11/lightning-components-in-flow/

Lightning Components in Flow! Learn why you should use Lightning Components in Flows and how to show Users a List of Records, in our example, Accounts, within a Flow using a Lightning Component

New Blog post published by @Alex Edelstein on inserting Images into Flow Screens and updates to the sample Lookup component for Flow: https://medium.com/@alexedelstein/flow-extensions-june-update-7644b7012524

Lightning Flow in Spring '18: Go with the Flow like never before! ⚡️ 

Supercharge your Flows in Spring '18 by embedding Lightning Components inside your Flow to leverage the best of Lightning Experience. Here's a short summary of what's new and generally available:

1. Use Lightning Components inside your Flow Screens. Any Lightning Component that implements this interface: lightning:availableForFlowScreens can be added to a Flow Screen
2. We provide a File Upload component out of the box. Global (Base) Lightning Components can be wrapped in a custom component implementing the FlowScreen interface to add to the list of UI options in your Flow. My personal favorite is using lightning:progressIndicator (visual indication on the progress of a particular process). 
3. Pass variables out of the Lightning Component to use in decisions and assignments in your Flow
4. Embed your Flow into Lightning Page via Lightning App Builder. Or Community Pages via Community Builder or onto Record Action lists via Object Specific Actions. 

Read this blog post from our developer marketing team to learn more: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2018/01/spring-18-for-developers-flow.html

Here are 2 Help and Training Articles to get you started:

• Show/hide fields in your flow screen using Lightning Components
  • https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.212.0.lightning.meta/lightning/components_config_for_flow_screens_replace_form.htm
• Navigating from choices in your screen
  • https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.212.0.lightning.meta/lightning/components_config_for_flow_screens_navigate.htm

See these videos from Dreamforce 2017 to get a sense for the experiences that can now be built with Flows. These demos were built using a pilot version of Lightning Components for Screens that is now GA with Spring!

Dreamforce 2017 Breakout Session Demos:

a) The GAP and PwC reimagine product returns and exchanges: https://www.salesforce.com/video/1758587/

b) Republic Bank and Silverline build retail banking dispute resolution on Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/video/1779417/

c) Pfizer and IBM Bluewolf build out customer onboarding on Lightning Flow: https://www.salesforce.com/video/1779743/

d) Integra Health and Appirio build out new account onboarding on Lightning Flow: https://www.salesforce.com/video/1757422/