Process Builders
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What is Process Builders?
Process Builder is a workflow tool within Salesforce that allows administrators to automate business processes without writing code. It provides a visual interface to define criteria and actions that are triggered when a record is created, updated, or a platform event occurs. Common uses include automating tasks like sending emails, updating related records, creating new records, or launching flows based on specific conditions being met within Salesforce.
What other technologies are related to Process Builders?
Process Builders Competitor Technologies
Flows
Flows are a more powerful and versatile automation tool that can perform most of the actions possible with Process Builder, making them a direct competitor. In many scenarios, Flows are now recommended over Process Builder.
Workflow Rules
Workflow Rules are an older automation tool that overlaps in functionality with Process Builder. Flows have mostly superseded both now.
Visual Flows
Visual Flows are the predecessor to the current Flow Builder and are a direct competitor to Process Builder in terms of automation capabilities.
Apex
Apex is a programming language that can be used to implement complex business logic, offering more flexibility than Process Builder but requiring more development effort. Thus is a competitor when more customization is required.
Workflows
Workflows are an older automation tool that overlaps in functionality with Process Builder, competing for the same use cases. Flows have mostly superseded both now.
Lightning Flows
Lightning Flows are the current iteration of Flows and a more powerful, versatile automation tool that competes directly with Process Builder.
Apex Triggers
Apex Triggers are Apex code that execute before or after specific database events and provide a more flexible but complex alternative to Process Builder for automating business logic.
Triggers
Triggers are Apex code that execute before or after specific database events and provide a more flexible but complex alternative to Process Builder for automating business logic.
Number of organizations that mention technology
511
Process Builders
3,379
Flows
768
Workflow Rules
104
Visual Flows
15,595
Apex
3,388
Workflows
315
Lightning Flows
984
Apex Triggers
3,854
Triggers
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Process Builders Complementary Technologies
Validation Rules
Validation Rules enforce data quality and can complement Process Builder by ensuring that data meets specific criteria before or after Process Builder actions are executed.
SOQL
SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language) is used to query data in Salesforce and can be used within Process Builder to retrieve data for decision-making or actions.
SOSL
SOSL (Salesforce Object Search Language) is used to search data in Salesforce and can be used within Process Builder to find records for updates or other actions.
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Which job functions commonly mention Process Builders?
Salesforce Administrator
0.7% of all Salesforce Administrator jobs mention Process Builders
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Software Architect
38 Software Architect jobs mention Process Builders
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Business Systems
16 Business Systems jobs mention Process Builders
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Software Engineer
171 Software Engineer jobs mention Process Builders
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Engineer
195 Engineer jobs mention Process Builders
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Which organizations are mentioning Process Builders?
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