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            Workflow Limits

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            Workflow Limits

            Salesforce limits the number of total and active rules in your org, the number of time triggers and actions per rule. It also processes a limited number of daily emails and hourly time triggers.

            Required Editions

            Available in: Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic
            Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
            Important
            Important Support and updates for Workflow Rules have ended as of December 31, 2025. This means that support won't be provided for any workflow rules and bugs in the Workflow Rules product won't be fixed. See Workflow Rules & Process Builder End of Support.

            After December 31, 2025, existing workflow rules continue to run, and you can activate, deactivate, and edit them; however we recommend using Flow Builder. To migrate existing workflow rules, plan your switch to Flow Builder and use the Migrate to Flow tool. For new automations, create flows in Flow Builder.

            Per-Org Limit Value

            Total rules across objects

            (Applies to any combination of workflow, assignment, auto-response, and escalation rules, active and inactive.)

            		 2,000

            Total rules per object

            (Applies to any combination of workflow, assignment, auto-response, and escalation rules, active and inactive.)

            		 500

            Active rules per object

            (Applies to any combination of active workflow, assignment, auto-response, and escalation rules, as well as record change processes.)

            		 50
            Time triggers per workflow rule1 10
            Immediate actions per workflow rule1 40
            Time-dependent actions per time trigger 40
            Workflow time triggers per hour 1,000
            Flow trigger workflow actions: flow variable assignments2 25 (N/A in Professional Edition)

            Combined total of these automations that start or resume based on a record’s field value.

            • Resume events that are defined in active flows
            • Groups of scheduled actions that are defined in active processes
            • Time triggers that are defined in active workflow rules
            • Inactive flow interviews that are resumed
            		 20,000

            1The immediate actions and each time trigger can have:

            2The pilot program for flow trigger workflow actions is closed. If you've already enabled the pilot in your org, you can continue to create and edit flow trigger workflow actions. If you didn't enable the pilot in your org, use Flow Builder to create a record-triggered flow, or use Process Builder to launch a flow from a process.

            • Daily Allocations for Email Alerts
              The daily allocation for emails sent through email alerts is 1,000 per standard user license per org—except for free Developer Edition and trial orgs, where the daily workflow email allocation is 15. The overall org allocation is 2,000,000. This allocation applies to emails sent through email alerts in workflow rules, approval processes, flows, processes, or REST API. Single emails sent to external email addresses are also limited, and how those limits are enforced depends on when your org was created.
             
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