Last 10th of February, I attended London’s Calling ’17 and I can say it was a great and funny day.

And obviously, we had lot of opportunities to learn more about Salesforce. Actually I had the chance to run a session about Visual Flow where I got nice questions that I promised to review and answer, and here is the time for it:

1. Did you find any issue related to Communities?

When I created a new Community in my org and tried to add elements, I was not able to find the Flow Lightning Component that allows me to include visualflows in Lightning Experience. However, I can add visualforce pages, so if you have your flow embebed in a visualforce page and you set this page up to be used in Communities, then, it seems you can see your flow in the Community.

2. Did you find any issue during deployment?

Although my daily job tasks do not include deploying flows, I could say that those times that I tried I did not get any special issue to highlight. We just need to keep in mind few things, like also include those objects that flow references but this is like some other components. In addition, although in your org you have several versions, in change set you can only include the latest active one. And as I said in the session, in order to include a flow in package, it should be active, otherwise, it will not appear as an element to be included. You can find more information here.

3. What is coming in Spring ’17 release?

I talked about some Spring’17 features, but I also promised to review, the new FLS feature. But let start checking the behaviour if I do not have access to the object itself.

So having a user which profile only allows to Read and View All reservations:

if I try to run the BookingSystem application, by the time I try to save the Reservation, I get an unhandled error (that’s why Salesforce encourage to cover these in the same way we do in apex) And the administrator receives an email with the log and the error:

Let’s double check new FLS for Flow in Spring’17

In this scenario, I have Filter Inaccessible Fields from Flow Request enabled in Process Automation Settings, and also, I have defined a Field Level Security of No Visible for Facility Price in my custom profile

So, having this configuration, I have created also this flow in order to insert a new Facility via a Fast Create screen

So in order to do that, I create a SObject and I use the input fields from the first screen in order to make an assignment to the SObject fields and finally pass the SObject to the Fast Create

Now, if I run the flow with the profile that doesn’t have price visibility, I can create a new record, but having an empty price.

However, if I disable Filter Inaccessible Fields from Flow Request enabled in Process Automation Settings, and run the flow again, the result is different. The record is not half created and the administrator receives and email with the error.

So now, what should I do? Up to you really. You can handle the exception and provide a nice error message and don’t allow the end user to create a Facility record without the prices. However, if the field is not required for the business, you can leave this half creation.

Any other question about Visual Flow? Leave it as a comment and I will try to check it and reply you.