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How to pass in a list of Strings to an Apex Action in new Flow Builder?
The InvocableMethod interface is bulkified. This allows you to map flows within Process Builder in a bulkified manner. As the documentation states, your parameter must be...
A list of a primitive ...
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Deprecate or remove an Apex Invocable Action from Process Builder in a Managed Package
This contains an opinion based on experience:
NEVER EVER EVER mark any code in a managed package as @Deprecated without first completely emptying its implementation.
Marking code as @Deprecated and ...
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Help on Invokable Apex Test class and @Future callout Apex test Class
Basically, you need to know about how to test HTTP callouts, and how to test future methods.
Once you've gotten that far, you'll see that the unit test would look like:
@isTest class MakeCalloutTest ...
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How invocable method and bulk behavior in Process Builder work?
You can also create an @InvocableMethod that takes in a List of a custom class. By doing this, you can pass in parameters in the Process Builder
public with sharing class ActionForProcessBuilder {
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Future Method and Static Variables
Static variables in Apex only retain their value through the course of a single transaction. Future methods by nature execute in a separate transaction, which means that your static variables are ...
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Setting Invocable Variables in Test Class
It's not any different by being an InvocableMethod than any other test code. Your test class should create and insert an Opportunity and Agreement, and then call your method with an instance of ...
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Flow + @InvocableMethod: How to assign output to collection/sobject collection variable?
I had the same issue and found the answer on the developer forum, posted by user Chad Barbour.
Basically your @invocableMethod must return a list of lists,
public static List<List<...
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Invocable method Apex class is not visible in Process builder
This problem often resolves itself by going to Setup | Develop | Apex Classes | select the test class and then run tests. SFDC needs to be sure class has been tested to appear in dropdown.
Solution ...
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Getting System.FinalException: Record is read-only when PB calls an apex class
let me guess, that records, that are sent to Apex are sent from Process as "Select the Case record that started your process". According to the Order of Execution process is launched after after ...
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Process Builder is not validating through change set
Process builder deploys in an inactive state.
If test methods are written around its results snd this blocks your deployment you have the following options:
Manually create the PB in production and ...
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Flow passing in record with picklist value into Invocable Apex method causes error
Turns out using String.valueOf() actually does the trick in being able to convert it to a String that Apex accepts. Wrote a little utility to help manage this until it gets fixed.
public inherited ...
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Can Process Builder run @future methods?
The only main problem you should be aware of is that your process builder must not call the future method recursively. This would happen because the future method performs some sort of DML operation (...
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How invocable method and bulk behavior in Process Builder work?
The answer for #3 (about parameters as a singleton) is a straight up no:
There can be at most one input parameter and its data type must be one of the following:
A list of a primitive data type or a ...
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Can Apex static values be used to safely communicate between executions of process builder?
Process Builder is bulkified, which means it would only perform one query per 200 records. That said, if you wanted to store data in a static variable, it would persist across the entire transaction, ...
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I am getting DML Limit exception in Flow without using any DML statements
First, your code isn't properly bulkified. Even if you didn't get a DML error where you did, you should still hit the SOQL limit for having a query inside a loop.
Second, keep in mind that flows are ...
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Why are my flow's input/output parameters not working with my InvocableMethod?
In Salesforce, flows are bulkified. The documentation explains it best, so I'll copy it here:
When multiple interviews for the same flow run in one transaction, each interview runs until it reaches a ...
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How do I pass a record to an Invocable Method from process builder?
Select Action Type "Apex", give it an Action Name, select your invocable class, Add an Apex Variable row, and map lst to Reference "[Case]". Note that parent and child records will not be available (e....
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Issue with Invocable Method to Call Queueable
Your oppList shouldn't be static.
It should be a member variable.
Try this:
public List<Id> oppList;
Note how you are creating a new Queueable in this line:
System.enqueueJob(new ...
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Standard invocable actions API: How to detect whether an input expects an array?
If I understand your question, you are looking for a way to identify if an input is array or not.
While the description for the nextApproverIds input indicates that it expects an array, there's no ...
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InvocableMethod Through anonymous APEX
You will need to declare the list in your snippet as:
List<SL_Mapping_Handler.ContextRecord> l = new List<SL_Mapping_Handler.ContextRecord>();
Replaces:
List<ContextRecord> l = ...
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Flow Invocable Apex - FLOW_ELEMENT_ERROR The number of results does not match
When an InvocableMethod runs, it runs against all interviews in a batch at once. As such, the number of outputs, if any, must match the number of inputs.
In order to fix this error, you need to pass ...
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Can Apex static values be used to safely communicate between executions of process builder?
If your Process Builder is doing any record field updates then be aware that each of these is dealt with in a separate invocation of your entire "save procedure", as per point 14 in the ...
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Variable does not exist: Interview - when calling Flow.Interview
This is because
Flow.Interview flowToRun = Flow.Interview.createInterview(flow.flowName, params);
Flow is interpreted by the apex compiler to be a reference to the loop variable flow !
for(...
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Passing variables from flow to apex and then from apex to flow
To create an input and output from flow to apex or vice versa, you will need to ensure you annotate them as @InvocableVariable.
To make your apex method available as an action, annotate the method ...
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What are possible types to choose in the Invocable.Action.createCustomAction(type, name) method?
Here are the supported types (from /services/data/v58.0/actions/custom)
apex for calling @InvocableAction annotated methods
flow for starting Flow interviews (including mass/bulk runs)
quickAction ...
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Process builder not activating in production
That gack is mentioned in this post, in which we're told is related to this known issue. You're encouraged to contact Tier 3 support if you get this error. They have a fix. They don't say what causes ...
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Can we set Invocable Variables through a test class?
Yes - the @Invocable... annotations provide extra data to the Process Builder. The code is still a normal Apex class whose methods you can call and fields you can set from a test class or any other ...
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@InvocableMethod/Process.PluginResult And @Future
No, you can't use a web service call in a trigger context. Instead, you have call the @future method from the InvocableMethod method:
public class XYZ {
@InvocableMethod(Description=...) public ...
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Is this expected behavior on InvocableMethod ? (Trigger order of execution)
This seems to be the expected behavior considering you are updating the same field from a workflow update too. If you see the Triggers and Order of Execution documentation, and refer to the below ...
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Email alert vs invocable apex
Flows are simple to use, but limited in what they can do. Invocable actions require writing code, but have virtually unlimited potential compared to flows. Use flows for simple tasks that don't ...
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