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Invoke a Decision Table with a Dataset Link
A decision table can evaluate records of an object selected as a dataset link in a decision table.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions with Loyalty Management or Rebate Management |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create a flow: | Manage Flow |
| To invoke a decision table: | Run Decision Tables |
Note Decision tables are also available as part of Business Rules
Engine. If your org has Business Rules Engine enabled, see Decision Tables for Business Rules Engine.
Before you invoke a decision table with a dataset link, ensure that the dataset link contains the mapping between the object fields and the decision table’s input fields.
- From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Flows, and then select Flows.
- Click New Flow.
- In the New Flow window, select a flow type.
- Select a layout.
- On the Elements tab, drag the Action element onto the canvas.
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Complete these steps in the New Action window, and then click
Done:
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In the Category section, select Decision Table.
The Decision Table category is available in the New Action window when at least one active decision table exists in Salesforce.
- Search for the decision table that you want to run.
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Select the search result that's suffixed with the name of the dataset link that you want
to evaluate.
A decision table can be associated with one or more dataset links. The search results are suffixed with the name of the associated dataset links. If you select a decision table with the associated dataset link’s name suffixed, the decision table provides outcomes for the records of the object specified in the dataset link.
- Provide a name for the Action element. The API name is autopopulated based on the name you enter.
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Specify the records whose field values the decision table must evaluate.
Note- If the decision table contains input fields of the type Picklist (Multi-Select), provide only one value for evaluation in the Picklist (Multi-Select)-type fields. In the records that you specify for evaluation, ensure that only one value is provided in the fields that are mapped to the decision table's Picklist (Multi-Select) fields.
- If the decision table contains an input field that groups the business rules, include the field in the dataset link.
- Click Done.
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In the Category section, select Decision Table.
- Use other elements in the flow to determine how the outcomes that the decision table provides are stored or processed later.
- Save and activate your flow.
- If your flow isn’t scheduled, run the flow.
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