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Add Clickable Hyperlink columns in Screen Flow Data Table Component Without Creating Formula Fields

Published May 13, 2025

When using Data Tables in Salesforce Screen Flows, there’s a common limitation that the table doesn’t support clickable links or showing field values from lookup relations directly.
In this article, I demonstrate a simple workaround for this limitation without creating any extra fields in Salesforce.

For example, I’ve created a Flow that shows all related Cases for an Account in the data table. The datatable display the Case Number and the Contact column as clickable column and also display the contact name instead of its Id.

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Salesforce screen flow – Open a Record in a Console Sub-Tab

Published September 16, 2024

This article explains how to use Salesforce Screen Flow to open a record in a console sub-tab. By creating a text template that includes the record’s ID and using a display text component, users can click a link that opens the record within the console rather than a new browser tab. Two key steps are involved: (1) creating the text template with the record ID, and (2) displaying the template in the flow using the “Display Text” component.

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Salesforce Screen Flow – Download records into a CSV file with specified fields using the collection variable

Published August 6, 2024

This articles leverages a lightning web component to export the data from Salesforce screen flow. The LWC inputs a collection variable and convert it into a CSV file. Moreover, you also have options to select an sObject and fields to be exported into the CSV file.

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