Salesforce Spring ’23 Release Notes — The Funny Summary — Volume V
3 min readJan 10, 2023
This article is one of many other volumes for the Spring ’23 Release Notes — The Funny-ish Summary. If you want to jump to a specific Topic please use the links at the bottom of this page.
Salesforce Flows
TLDR;
Flow Builder
- Struggling with Integrations ? why not configure them. Meet the HTTP callout action, you can use it to generate reusable actions to call your webservices and middlewares, so call me maybe! BETA
- Lightning Web Components can now react to changes in other components on the same screen, no more abnormal amount of screens to achieve this. BETA
Product Owner: Hey there! We would like to see some lookup records and potentially create some..
Developer: AUUUUUGH! , gonna go build my Lightning Web Co…..
Spring 23: STAAAAAAAAAAAHP IT!!
- Starting from spring 23, you can drag and drop lookup fields to flow screens and create a lookup record — yes! you have heard me right you can do it too — directly from the Lookup field using Dynamic Forms for Flow.
According to myself ( a trusted source ) here are some tips to improve your quality of life
- Be grateful for what you have.
- Try to learn something new every day.
- Read the other release note summary volumes.
- Enjoy the much improved selection of multiple options from the multi-select picklist field.
- Add descriptions to your flow elements so you can easily hover over those elements and visualize the descriptions in Auto-Layout.
- Look out for the newly added descriptions for standard elements again in Auto-Layout.
Flow Management
- The Migrate to Flow tool can migrate your processes ( created by the Process Builder ) in addition to workflows.
👇 Keep in mind👇
✅ You can migrate only
- Record-triggered processes (and only migrate Record update, Record create, Invoke flow, Invoke Apex, Email alert actions )
❌ You cannot migrate
- Custom event & custom invocable type processes
- Processes containing ( scheduled actions, custom metadata types, and field traversals )
Flow Runtime
- Choices to select a choice! With the new Choice Lookup screen component you can select a value ( Similar to the picklist component ) or search for the value you are looking for. BETA
- Select Multiple Records from a Table IS NOW GA 🥳🥳. in a nutshell, this option give you the possibility to select multiple records from the Data table component in your screen flows. GA
- The limit of 2000 flow elements was removed ( limited to flows and processes that are configured to run on API version 57.0 or later )
More Volumes?
- Volume I: Salesforce Overall, Enablement and Guidance, Reports and Dashboards
- Volume II: CRM Analytics
- Volume III: Security, Identity, and Privacy
- Volume IV: Customization
- Volume V: Salesforce Flow
- Volume VI: Development
- Volume VII: Sales
- Volume VIII: Service
- Volume IX: Experience Cloud
- Volume X: Salesforce CMS & Mobile
- Volume XI: Commerce
- Volume XII: Industries
