anusha(salesforce developer)

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Differences between Process Builder and other tools in force.com

Salesforce offers various tools to automate business processes, for example, Flow, Workflow Rule, and Process Builder. So, it is required to understand the difference between these tools and when to use which. The following table describes the difference between these tools:
 
Workflow
Flow
Process Builder
Visual designer
Not available
Available
Available
Starts when
A record is created or edited
  • The user clicks on a custom button/link
  • A Process starts
  • Apex is called
  • Inline Visualforce page
  • The user accesses a custom tab
A record is created or edited
Supports time-based actions?
Yes
Yes
Supported, but only one scheduled-actions per criteria. This means that in the same Process..

1 comment:

  1. Very informative, Thank you.

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