Salesforce Winter’25 Release Notes | Flow Builder User Experience Updates – Salesforce Training Articles & Latest News

New Errors and Warning Pane

Salesforce introduced a new Errors and Warnings pane that lists all issues that prevent you from saving and activating a flow. The pane includes links to the flow builder canvas that help you identify the source of issues. You can show or hide the new pane with the Show Error button, which includes a notification badge that displays the total number of issues to address

How: Create/open a flow, and click the Show Error icon in the button bar to see the list of all errors or issues

Flow errors in Errors and Warnings pane

Flow warnings in Errors and Warnings pane

Find Flow Child Resources More Easily

Child resources of an element in a flow, such as a screen component within a Screen element, can now be found directly in the resources menu. Previously, you had to first select the element of the child resource, and then select the child resource. This change applies to the following child resources

Screen components

Screen actions

Decision element outcomes

Wait element configurations

How: In screen flow below, the first name, last name, and email is first collected with a Screen element, and then this information is used to create a contact. In the Create Records element following the Screen element, set the email for the new contact by searching for the name of the email screen component

Create New Variable and Constant Flow Resources More Easily

Resource grouping and user friendly labeling is now enabled for Text, Number, Currency, Boolean, Date, and Date/Time data types in both variable and constant flow resources

How: Open an existing or a new flow in Flow Builder and then click New Resource under the Manager panel. Select the resource type, Variable or Constant, and then the data type. Click in the Default Value field and enter a value or search for resources. The clickable breadcrumb path helps you identify where you are and navigate resource groups (1). You can recognize resource types quickly with more intuitive icons (2)

Find Flow Resource Variables More Easily in Assignment and Create Records Elements

With this update, enhanced resource-selection experience for resources such as Actions, Screen components, and Variables is extended to Assignment and Create Records elements

How: Create or open a flow and then add or edit an Assignment or a Create Records element

For the Assignment element, click in the Set Variable Values field. The clickable breadcrumb path helps you identify where you are and navigate resource groups (1). Recognize resource types quickly with more intuitive icons (2). To create a resource quickly, click New Resource (3). To get helpful information about a resource, hover over the resource’s info icon (4)

Resource selection for the Assignment element

For the Create Records element, the fields and values of manually selected objects and matching records are grouped and have clearer labels. To quickly create a resource for values, click New Resource

Resource selection for the Create element

Identify Inefficient Flow Designs with New Tips

New tips window in Flow Builder help identify designs that can slow down flows and increase the risk of reaching Apex governor limits. These tips appear in the Flow Builder canvas and provide guidance on how to improve the flow. Addressing these suggestions will ensure that the flows run efficiently and any potential performance issues are avoided. These tips are especially useful for users who are new to building flows and aren’t aware of common pitfalls

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Antonis Melakis

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