How to pass record IDs from list view to a Flow in Lightning

Hi! 🙂

In this article, we are going to see how we can pass the IDs of multiple records from a list view to a Flow in Lightning. At present, there is no direct way to pass record IDs to a flow from the list view.

[Update January 2020]

I came across a much simpler solution for this which I would recommend using:
https://forcepanda.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/how-to-mass-update-or-delete-records-from-list-views-in-lightning/
You can forget about the rest of the post!

So the idea is to create a Visualforce page, which will pass the selected record IDs to a flow. The flow can either be a screen flow or a autolaunched flow. For our use case, we shall consider the flow type to be a Screen flow.

So without any further ado, let’s take a look at the steps.

Step 1: The first step is to create a flow to show all the selected record IDs.
So, first we create a collection variable of string type, say AccountIDs, and then add a screen element to display the value of collection variable.

Variable

Screen

Final Flow

Save and activate the flow.

Step 2: Next, we will create an Apex class which will be the controller for our Visualforce page.
PassSelectedIdsToFlowVFController.apxc

public class PassSelectedIdsToFlowVFController {
    
    public string[] SelectedAccountIDs{get;set;}
    
    public PassSelectedIdsToFlowVFController(ApexPages.StandardSetController listcontroller){
        SelectedAccountIDs = new string[]{};
        for(Account acc : (Account[])listcontroller.getSelected()){
            SelectedAccountIDs.add(acc.Id);
        }
    }
}

Step 3: Now we create our Vf page as follows:
PassSelectedIdsToFlowVF.vfp

<apex:page standardController="Account" recordSetVar="Acc" extensions="PassSelectedIdsToFlowVFController" lightningStylesheets="true">
    
    <flow:interview name="Mass_Action_List_View_Flow">
        <!-- AccountIDs is flow input variable & SelectedAccountIDs is a property in the Apex controller -->
        <apex:param name="AccountIDs" value="{!SelectedAccountIDs}" />
    </flow:interview>
    
</apex:page>

Step 4: Next step is to create a list type button to call the Visualforce page and add it to the list view. To add the button to the list view, go to Search layouts -> List View.

Action time!

P.S. If you are looking to pass the IDs to an autolaunched flow, then you can simply call the flow from the apex itself. For reference:
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.meta/apexcode/flow_interview_class.htm

Thank you! 😀