Play Video and Audio type Salesforce Files in Flows Screens!

In one of my recent posts, I shared how we can play audio and videos 'Files' in Salesforce. Then I had a thought, why not have a flow screen component to play or preview these audio/video type Salesforce files. Wouldn't that be nice, eh? And so I built a simple Aura component that you can …

Salesforce Flow Screen Component – ‘Super’ Rich Text

Rich Text fields provide important functionality, but can be difficult to employ and deal with properly, especially in Flows. unofficialSF (a tremendous collection of resources provide by Alex Edelstein, Eric Smith, and others) has provided a great LWC to assist with Rich Text input. This component is a great starting point, and there are multiple …

How to play audio and videos ‘Files’ in Salesforce?

Howdy! All good, I hope. 🙂 If you're using Salesforce Files in your org, you might have noticed that when you try to preview any media(video and audio) file, you only see a download button. And if you want preview it, you will have to download it first. Now that sucks! But as you already …

Subscribe to Platform Events using Flows without breaking a sweat! #Summer20

Hi there! 🙂 Have to ever had to subscribe to Platform Events(PEs) via Process builder? Painful, wasn't it? The whole 'unnecessary' hassle/steps that you had to do for setting it up. I feel you. But hold on, I got some great news for you. After Summer '20, subscribing to Platform Events is probably the easiest …

Create CSV file from Record collection in Flows!

Hi there! Good to see you 😀 In one of my recent article, I shared about an Apex action for flows that we can use to create records directly from a CSV file. In this article, we're going to see the exact opposite of it, i.e. an Apex action that allows you to create a …

Extract Text from Image – Einstein OCR

Hi there! 🙋‍♂️ As promised in my introductory article on Einstein OCR, today we are going to discuss how we can simply extract the text from an image using Einstein OCR. Before we dwell any further, I will just briefly discuss how the Vision API works. So the first thing that you need is an …