Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Release Notes
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Actions
Apex Cursors
Approval Processing
Authentication
Chatter Answers and Ideas
Use Cases for the CommercePayments Namespace
Connect in Apex
Moderate Chatter Private Messages with Triggers
Data 360 In Apex
DataWeave in Apex
Moderate Feed Items with Triggers
Experience Cloud Sites
Email
External Services
Flows
Getting Flow Variables
Making Callouts to External Systems from Invocable Actions
Extend Invocable Action Configuration in Flow Builder
Passing Data to a Flow Using the Process.Plugin Interface
Formula Evaluation in Apex
Metadata
Permission Set Groups
Platform Cache
Salesforce Knowledge
Salesforce Files
Salesforce Connect
Salesforce Reports and Dashboards API via Apex
Salesforce Sites
Support Classes
Territory Management 2.0
Integration and Apex Utilities
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Reference
Appendices
PDF

Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Flows

Flow Builder lets admins build applications, known as flows, that automate a business process. Flows collect data and perform actions in your Salesforce org or an external system.

For example, you can create a flow to script calls for a customer support center or to generate real-time quotes for a sales team. You can embed a flow in a Visualforce page or Aura component and access it in an Apex controller.

For more information about how to start a flow from Apex, see Apex Reference Guide: Interview Class.

You can customize how your Apex invocable actions appear and behave in Flow Builder by using the InvocableActionExtension metadata file. Control input parameter order and grouping, provide picklist values, add custom headers, and create partial custom property editors for improved configuration experiences. For more information, see Extend Invocable Action Configuration in Flow Builder.