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In a Flow, I can retrieve an object and several fields. Is it possible to pass the object to a Lightning component used in a screen? I've tried setting up an attribute as Map or Object, and adding the attribute to the Design, but when I attempt to save the Lightning component, I get errors like this:

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The flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes interface doesn't support these attribute types in the design resource: map.

The forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes interface doesn't support these attribute types in the design resource: map.

The lightning:availableForFlowScreens interface doesn't support these attribute types in the design resource: map.

The flexipage:availableForRecordHome interface doesn't support these attribute types in the design resource: map.

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So the answer was contained within a comment in this post: Is it possible to return a value from a Lightning Component to a flow?

In my Flow, I setup a variable called orderRecords of type record, and checked the Allow multiple values (collection) property.

Next, I added a get records element to my flow. Itt retrieves all of the order records with the matching recordId (passed into the Flow via a variable with that name). There is only one, but it is stored in orderRecords collection variable.

Then in my Lightning component, I defined an attribute to receive the collection variable:

<aura:attribute name="orderRecords" type="package__Order__c[]" />

and included the following in the design part:

<design:attribute name="orderRecords" label="Order records" description="Only the first one in the collection is used" />

And in my component's init(), I get the first record in the collection and save that in an attribute:

var orderRecords = component.get("v.orderRecords");
var orderObj = null;

if(orderRecords.length > 0) {
    orderObj = orderRecords[0];
    component.set("v.orderObj", orderObj);
}

Then, I updated my flow to pass the orderRecords variable to to the component as an attribute.

Its a bit of work to do things this way, for sure, but does do what I need. It certainly will be nice whenever SF updates Flows to be able to pass a single record to a component.

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As per documentation, you cannot use a generic Map or Object as an attribute for a flow. You can, however, use an Apex-defined datatype or an sObject type. If these doesn't satisfy your requirement, you can pass the object as a JSON string instead and parse it in the component.

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.lightning.meta/lightning/components_config_for_flow_tips_map.htm

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  • So I would need a step in the Flow that would convert the retrieved object into a JSon string? How exactly would that be done? Via an Apex reference?
    – Michael Sobczak
    Sep 3, 2019 at 19:42
  • I used a text template variable with hardcoded param names to generate the JSON string and passed it as a param to the flow action. Ex: {"paramName": {!paramValue}}
    – Vinod Rondla
    Sep 3, 2019 at 23:17
  • I don't believe a Flow variable for a single record can be passed to a Lightning component included in a Flow screen. It does seem to work for a variable containing a record collection, though.
    – Michael Sobczak
    Sep 26, 2019 at 12:55
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Flow's new Apex-defined Data Types allows you to define a rich object as an Apex Class and then pass it between Flow and LC's. See https://unofficialsf.com/part-1-manipulate-complex-internet-data-in-flow-without-code/ and https://unofficialsf.com/tdx-session-videobuilding-advanced-flows-with-choices-loops-and-new-apex-defined-types/

Easier than serializing and dealing with JSON, generally.

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