Validate Email - Screen Flow Action

Last published at: 2024-07-16 21:31:05 UTC
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The Screen Flow Action "Validate Email" lets you validate an email address in a screen flow.

How to use Validate Email in your flow

Step 1 Add the "Validate Email" Flow Action to your flow

  1. Open the Lightning Flow Builder.
  2. From the Elements section, drag a new screen from the Toolbox onto the canvas.
  3.  At "Label" and "API Name", define a label and an API name for the screen.
  4. From the Screen Components section, scroll down to Custom and drag the "RV - Validate Email" screen component onto the screen.

Step 2 Fill out the fields

  1.  At "API Name", define an API name for the screen component. For example "Validate_Email".
  2. "Field API Name" is used for saving the validation results. Populate this field if you want to save the validation results.
  3. Optionally, fill out the other fields with variables or fixed values, or leave them blank.
  4. Click "Done".

Example of the Validate Email Flow Component

Step 3 Connect your screen to the Start trigger

Make sure the screen is connected to the Start trigger.

Step 4 Run the flow

  1. Save the flow, give it a name and click Run.
  2. Fill out the email address and Record Validation will validate it for you.

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This Flow Action only validates the input; it does not save the result. Learn more about how to save the validation results.