Last Updated on May 1, 2022 by Rakesh Gupta

Big Idea or Enduring Question:

• How to find all record-triggered and scheduled-triggered flows for an object? 

Objectives:

After reading this blog, you’ll be able to: 

• Find out all record-triggered flows for an object
• Find out all scheduled-triggered flows for an object
• and much more

Business Use case

Arda Turan is working as a System Administrator at Gurukul on Cloud (GoC). Arda wants to learn the different ways to find out record-triggered flows for an object. 

Automation Champion Approach (I-do):

There are possible solutions for the above business use case. We will go through them one by one. 

1. Using SOQL Query 
2. Access Record-Triggered Flows from the Object Manager
3. Visualize All Your Record-Triggered Flows in One Place with Flow Trigger Explorer
4. Flows list view

Solution 1 – Using SOQL Query 

To get specific object apex triggers, we can write a SOQL query on the FlowDefinitionView object by passing the object name in the TriggerObjectOrEventLabel field.

Below SOQL query will return all the record-triggered and scheduled-triggered flows on the Opportunity object.

Select id, IsActive, Label, ProcessType, ManageableState , TriggerObjectOrEventId, TriggerObjectOrEventLabel, TriggerType from FlowDefinitionView where TriggerObjectOrEventLabel='Opportunity'

If you only want to get all the record-triggered flows on the Opportunity object, then 

Select id, IsActive, Label, ProcessType, ManageableState , TriggerObjectOrEventId, TriggerObjectOrEventLabel, TriggerType from FlowDefinitionView where TriggerObjectOrEventLabel='Opportunity' and TriggerType IN ('RecordAfterSave', 'RecordBeforeSave')

This is one of the best approaches as it is more flexible and easier to add and remove filters as needed. 

Solution 2 – Access Record-Triggered Flows from the Object Manager 

You can get a picture of all of an object’s record-triggered flows directly from the Object Manager. You can even create a New Flow or open up Flow Trigger Explorer from the object’s setup menu! 

This is one of the easiest approaches to finding out all record-triggered flows for an object but doesn’t provide much information. For example, if the record-triggered flow belongs to a managed or unmanaged package. 

Solution 3 – Visualize All Your Record-Triggered Flows in One Place with Flow Trigger Explorer

See and manage your record-triggered flows with Flow Trigger Explorer, a new tool that’s more visual and interactive than the Flows list view. Flow Trigger Explorer shows all of the flows that are associated with a specified object and that run when a record is created, updated, or deleted. For example, quickly see all flows that are triggered to run when a case record is created.

In Flow Trigger Explorer, select an object and a trigger to see flows that run when a record for that object is created, updated, or deleted. It will show all of the before-save and after-save flows that run for the same object and trigger. 

Solution 4 – View Record-Triggered Flows Using List View 

Formative Assessment:

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