Salesforce Flow Limitations
Since Salesforce flows are being widely used, it is important to understand the flow limitations before solutions around flows.
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1 Let’s answer the most common question to start, Why limits?
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Let’s answer the most common question to start, Why limits?
Salesforce runs on a multitenant architecture, which means it uses shared resources across organizations. To make sure of overutilization of resources by a single org, and improving the performance of others using the same resources Salesforce introduced governer limits.
Limits on Flows
- Number of executed elements at runtime per flow: 2000
- you can only have a maximum of 2000 executed elements in a flow interview at runtime. This means if there is a loop in a flow. A number of elements = records in the list * elements inside the loopEg. For 1000 records being processed, if the elements inside/including the loop are 3, then the number of elements processed will be 1000*3(3000) + elements outside the loop.
- Data retrieve elements(get Records) can be used to retrieve a maximum of 50000 records per transaction. A transaction includes everything which runs in the record save operation, be it trigger, workflow, or any other automation.
- A maximum of 100 data retrieval(SOQLs for apex) elements can be used per transaction
- A maximum of 150 data elements(update/insert/delete records) can be used. Note that these elements will also be multiplied if they are within the loop.
- The total number of records processed by a data element cannot exceed 10000 per transaction.
- The maximum time server uses to process the transaction is 10 seconds.
This article covers a few Salesforce flow limitations. If you are interested to learn more check out the Salesforce documentation on flow limits.
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