Pass Record Id to Flow in Quick Action

Are you reading Samantha Shain’s blog The Data Are Alright yet? I LOVE how she talks through all the ups and downs of building her first flow – which is a really complicated one, by the way! She shares her thought processes, her research and her frustrations, pride and other feelings so openly. So if you see an increase in feelings shared here, you know who inspired me!

In Sam’s post, she mentions a few things that she had trouble figuring out. She uses a custom button or link with a URL to pass a record id to a Flow. As she guessed, there is a more elegant way to do it. So elegant even Lady Whistledown would approve.

CORRECTION: Sam tweeted “I got it from a Quick Action eventually on my own (I wish I had this resource then), but what I really needed was to pass in a *group* of ids from a list view… which afaik is not possible without code.”

Let’s pass an ID to a Flow through a Quick Action.

Use case: Starting on the account, we want to close all open opportunities associated with a button. By the way, you can install this quick solution from the AppExchange. (Affilate link alert! I get 100% of the proceeds when you install my free app from Salesforce Labs).

Here’s my Quick Action where I’ve selected the Flow.

Inside my flow, I create a text type variable called recordId. I know at one point it was case sensitive, but I’m not sure if it still is.

In my Get Records element, I use the recordId variable to search for opportunities associated with the account I started from.

Here’s another great use case: let’s say you’re on an opportunity record and you need help from your trusty Salesforce administrator. Click a quick action to launch a screen flow that creates a task or case in which you ask for support!

Thanks again to Samantha Shain for the great blog post and shout out. Read her post to learn about another use case!