Use Flow and Action (Create a Record) to Conditionally Create Opportunity From Account

Question

Scenario - I currently have an Action that can be clicked on the Account page to create a pre-populated Opportunity. Now I want to use Flow (specifically a decision), to build a Flow Button (Button that executes a Flow) that only allows for the execution of the Action if the Account Status is set to Active. The following image shows what I have so far (the Action is the Action mentioned above):

Questions

1. Bigger - How can I use a Flow to fulfill the scenario?
2. Smaller -How can I bring the AccountId into the flow from the Account where the button was clicked (i.e. bring contextual information into the Flow's scope)?

Answer 1

• Object-based actions of type Flow will pass the ID into a flow variable that must be named recordId
• Flow should do a Get Records using recordId as key into a record variable
• Decision block to inspect Account Status and route to your sub flow.