Visual Workflow Webinar. Populate Flow variable from a URL Parameter? | Question | Customer Resources. Using Visual Flow in Salesforce Spring 11. NOTE: As of Spring 12 all Orgs will have Visual Flow for FREE! SWEET! Also, this post is a little old, there is already an update with the new Cloud Flow Designer. You know what can be tedious to work with? Wizards. And I’m not talking about wizards like Gandolf who can shoot lighting and carry swords with a +10 mana regeneration rate.
I’m talking about wizards that navigate a user through a flow or decision making process. Many programming languages and platforms provide setup wizards in their IDE’s that allow you to create a wizard framework quickly. As of Salesforce Winter 11, this was something that was lacking in Salesforce and Force.com platform.
You’d have to manually create a bunch of Visualforce Pages and Apex Controller and flow the user through them manually, which was a pain! In Spring 11 however, we are getting Visual Flows GA (Generally Available). Use Case: New Account Wizard This use case will create a new account using the Visual Flow tool. 1. 2. Adding a Flow to a Visualforce Page. Www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/firefly/salesforce_flow_designer.pdf.