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How to assign multiselect picklist values to a collection variable?
Ensure that your screen element stores the ID of the selected 2. After user (multi-)selects, assign the Screen Element variable to a Text variable. The Text variable will now contain all the ID’s of the selected records selected (assuming the Screen element is a record choice set – but it would work for other choice sets also).
How to iterate through multi select picklists via a flow loop?
Voila, your multi select picklist is now parsed out as an actual collection (in your collection variable) Here the catch is parsing decision box which acts as a small loop in itself (working on the length of the text variable containing the list of Ids, of the values passed) while segregating values separated by semi colon into a collection.
How to create a multi select picklist in Excel?
Use a “Multi-Select Picklist” field within a Screen Element for users to interact with. Create a new choice to be used as the default and set it to the variable that was set in the Record Lookup step. Now create a new choice for every option you would like to provide your user.
When to use collection variables in list views?
This would be useful when using Flow actions on List Views. For example you might select multiple records that you want to merge and pass this to a sobject collection variable in a Flow. It would be great if you could then display the selections as radio button options to allow the user to select the winner.
What’s the point of having a multi select field?
Unless I’m missing something really obvious, it seems like a huge limitation to not be able to assign a multi-select field to a collection variable OR be able to loop on a multi-select field. What’s the point of having a multi-select field if you have to write code to parse the values?
How to parse multi select values in visual flow?
This Salesforce Sidekick article by David Litton, Parse a Multi-Select Value in Visual Flow ( https://salesforcesidekick.com/2016/11/07/parse-a-multi-select-value-in-visual-flow-unmanaged-package-included/ ), provides a flow that can be called from other flows to parse a multi select picklist value.
How to assign a variable to a field in multiselect?
In the Record Create element, use the current value variable to assign a value to a field for the new record. 1. Ensure that your screen element stores the ID of the selected 2. After user (multi-)selects, assign the Screen Element variable to a Text variable.