Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from June, 2025

Reducing Manual Tasks in Salesforce DevOps

  🚩Focus: Automating the Deletion of Old Flow Versions ❓One of the most frequently asked questions I get as a DevOps Consultant is: “How can we reduce manual tasks during deployments?” A common manual task is deleting outdated Flow versions in Salesforce. Here’s why automating this step is valuable: 🚨 Why Automate This? Deleting old Flow versions is a best practice that helps in several ways: Improves overall performance Reduces clutter in the environment Makes the system easier to manage, especially during continuous development and iteration How to Automate Flow Deletion Deleting old Flow versions is fairly simple in itself, but doing it manually across multiple orgs during forward or backward promotions can become a tedious and error-prone process. 🚩Here are a few ways to automate it: 1. Using Salesforce Inspector Reloaded or Other Tools Supporting Tooling API You can run a query to fetch obsolete Flow versions and delete them using tools that support the Tooling API. 2. Usin...