Recipe: Steps to Create an Autolaunched Flow Button

This recipe describes how you can dynamically launch non-interactive flows from a button click in Community Hub fully through point and click. 

In this example we will create a button to launch a flow. This flow will alter an Account record(s) returned by a Query, adjusting the last name field, and updating the record(s) in the database. 

To do this, follow the below steps:

Create a Query Record

This query (See: creating a query) will return the current Account that clicks the button. The resulting record(s) from this query will be used as an input variable for our flow.

Create a Data Source

Create a data source which uses the query created above. Enter the below values when creating the Data Source:

• In Class, enter NC.SOQLDataSource.

• In Context, enter the Query Name of the query created before.

Create a Flow

Our simple example is a flow that alters the record(s) returned by the Query record, adjusts the last name, and updates them in the database. This is a simple example, but our hope is you can see additional possibilities.

Follow the below steps:

1. From Setup, enter Flows in the Quick Find box, then select Flows

2. Click New Flow.

3. Select Screen Flow and click Create.

4. From the dropdown on top ribbon, select Freeform.

5. From the Manager tab in left navigation, click New Resource.

6. Enter the API Name as Account_ids.

7. Enter a description.

8. In Data Type, select Number.

9. Select Allow multiple values (collection).

10. Select Available for input.

11. Click Done.

12. From left navigation menu, drag and drop Loop.

Create a New Button

Create a button to launch the flow created above, specifying the following:

1. The NC.DynamicFlowButton class.

2. The name of the Data Source we created.

3. The name of our flow.