Scheduling, Polling, or Innvoking a Flow

When managing how your flow operates, you can:

Schedule a flow.
Poll a flow.
Invoke a flow.

Additionally, all users can view or manage all flows within your org.

Schedule a Flow

If you don’t choose a connection, you can schedule a flow to start at regular intervals.

To create a flow control:

In a new flow, from the What Should Start This Flow? dialog, look in the Flow Control section and click Scheduler.
Select a time interval, from 15 minutes to 30 days. For intervals of a day or more, the scheduler might not run at the same time within each interval.
Click Save.
After creating the trigger, add one or more actions to the flow. To apply logic to an action, prepend it with an If/Else block or For Each loop.

Poll a Flow

This feature enables Composer to check the status of a flow for changes every 10 minutes. After polling the flow, the polling trigger starts processing changes. This functionality is useful for retrieving results that take a long time to finish and are not suitable for synchronous consumption.

Invoke a Flow

You can invoke a Composer flow from external systems, such as Flow Builder, Flow Orchestration, another Composer flow, an Apex callout, or a cURL command, to enable deeper interoperability and integrated capabilities across Salesforce. For more information, refer to Invoke a Composer Flow.

Open Access for Flows

All users can view or manage all flows within your org.

This feature is enabled by default for new customers and disabled by default for existing customers. To disable this feature at the org level, contact Composer Support.

Limitations

To filter by owner of the flow, you must use the Flow Owner field and not the Owner field.
When filtering using the Flow Owner field, you can use only the starts with, equals, and contains operators. The starts with, equals, and contains operators all mimic the functionality of the contains operator.
In orgs of existing customers, Flow Owner is not visible by default in the list view on the Composer Flows tab. New customers, however, can see Flow Owner by default in the list view on the Composer Flows tab.
- To add Flow Owner to the Recently viewed list:
  1. From the Composer Flows tab, select Recently viewed.
  2. Go to Setup > Search Layouts > Composer Flow > Default Layout.
  3. Add Flow Owner.
- To add Flow Owner to All (or any other view list):
  1. From the Composer Flows tab, select All.
  2. Go to List View Controls > Select Fields to Display.
  3. Move Flow Owner from Available Fields to Visible Fields.
Bulk ownership transfer or changing ownership to a user other than yourself is not supported.

View Flows

You can view all flows within your org and view flow details, such as the status to see if a flow is active or inactive, the last modified date to see flow changes (not activation or deactivation), the flow owner, or the run history.

To view all flows within your org:

Go to the Composer Flows tab. You can now view all flows within your org and view flow details, such as Flow Name, Status, and Last Modified Date.

Manage Flows

You can manage all flows within your org. You can activate or deactivate all flows within your org, delete all flows within your org, edit all flows within your org, or change ownership of error email notification flows within your org.

To manage all flows within your org:

From the Composer Flows tab, select a flow.
Click on the desired button, for example, click Delete to delete a flow or click Transfer ownership to change flow ownership (for error email notification flows only).