Salesforce Spring ‘21 Sneak Peak of Flow Features

3 min readDec 18, 2020

Spring ’21 released and path-breaking features in Salesforce Flow

Accessing the Prior Value or Old Value in Record Triggered Flows

This is a great feature personally. This capability was missing till now and it was one of the biggest reasons for many developers to sometimes dropping Flow idea and write Apex Triggers for many scenarios.

After the rollout, no more Apex Trigger for simple customizations.

Multi-Column Layout for Screen Flows (Beta)

This is going to change a lot, but it's Beta for this release.

More Beautiful and Practical Screens in the future.

Time Based / Time Dependent Actions or Time Triggered Actions from Flows

Control Revisited Screen Component Values in Flows

One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to revisited screen component values, so now you can choose to refresh the values. When a user navigates to a previous screen, then proceeds forward to a screen that they visited already, the flow can refresh screen component values. Changes elsewhere in the flow are incorporated in the refreshed values. Previously, a screen component always used the same values that the user entered. The options for revisited screen component values are available only for Lightning components.

See Accurate Flow Information in Debug Logs: —

Debug logs now record the total amount of CPU time consumed by a particular flow or process in the FLOW_INTERVIEW_FINISHED_LIMIT_USAGE log lines. Also, the FLOW_INTERVIEW_LIMIT_USAGE log lines now accurately record the CPU time consumed by flows and processes that are configured to run in API version 51.0 or later.