Getting started with Salesforce Visualforce Workflow

How a flow is created?
Flows can be created from Setup, enter Flows in the Quick Find box, then select Flows, and then click New Flow.

There are 3 main building blocks of the flow:

Elements represent actions that are executed in the flow

Connectors define which path the flow takes

Resources are the values that can be referenced anywhere in the flow

Visualforce flow

It allows to automate business process by building application, knows as flows that collect, edit, update and create salesforce information.

Flow can execute logic, interact with salesforce database.

Flow designer tool is used for creating flows, configure screen, and define branching logic without writing any code.

What is visualforce flow?
When I first heard about Salesforce Flow also called Visual Flows, Visual Workflows. Want to streamline your opportunity creation process without the need to code? The use cases for Flows are endless. Flow is a powerful business automation tool that can manipulate data in Salesforce in a variety of ways. The ease of creating flows makes it the number one go-to tool when it comes to complex business requirements. The Salesforce platform s object relationships and overall how Salesforce runs. You have got to have at least mid-level of understanding of SFDC and its features in order properly use flows.

Difference between Salesforce dot com Flow and Workflow

Salesforce Flow or Visual Workflow is often confused with a feature named Workflow in Salesforce. They may be similar in certain fashion such as assisting in automating a business process, but in essence they both are different.

Salesforce dot com Flow

Visual Workflow is more of a front-end based tool. It is mainly used when you have to display or collect information through screens making it more visible to the users.

Visual Workflows are triggered by user actions. However in Visual Workflows, you can also Auto launch Flows i.e. start a Flow without user interaction. Since they are triggered without user interactions you cannot include steps, choices, screens or dynamic choices in your Auto launch Flow.

Workflow

Workflow on the other hand execute per-defined rules behind the scenes. They are used to process information rather than collecting it. While Workflows are mainly triggered by events

Workflows can fetch, delete, update or even create records on multiple objects but Workflows are defined to affect only a single specified object. The exception to this is the case of Workflows having to update fields on specified object s related master records.