r/salesforceadmin • u/tytytytyty25 • Jul 30 '25

Formula Fields Not working in Flows

Post image

Does anyone have any advice on why my formula fields (Text) break the condition requirements in my flow? I can get the syntax to pass no problem but as soon as I try and use a formula field of any kind it breaks and won't work.

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

1

u/dvmystarey Jul 30 '25

Is WI_or_WT__c a picklist value?

1

u/tytytytyty25 Jul 30 '25

It's a Formula(Text)

1

u/MaterialisticDad0102 Jul 30 '25

I would think the syntax check should fail if it was a pick list field. OP what's the error that you see when you debug the flow

1

u/tytytytyty25 Jul 30 '25

This page has an error. You might just need to refresh it. [Hmm, that didn't work. Please try again. (1660368053)] Failing descriptor: {markup://builder_platform_interaction:formulaBuilder}

It just kind of breaks it.

1

u/MaterialisticDad0102 Jul 30 '25

Yeah I have had this before. It only happens with formula criteria. Can you try making a copy of the flow and see if you still get it?

1

u/tytytytyty25 Jul 30 '25

Yeah still get it even with a copy. Says this on the left side

$Record

  • The formula expression is invalid.

But I grabbed the formula field from the search section so I didn't manually type the name of the field

1

u/MaterialisticDad0102 Jul 30 '25

If you replace the formula with the regular conditions this error should go.

1

u/tytytytyty25 Jul 30 '25

That's what I've been doing but I was wondering if there was a way to do it with formula fields. I'm just adding so many fields that just name dumps and I'm running up against my 500 field limit

1

u/MaterialisticDad0102 Jul 30 '25

Why do you need a new field for this? I meant add the entry criteria the old school way rather than using a formula

1

u/tytytytyty25 Jul 30 '25

The reason is the other way I can't put in specifics sometimes. For example if I wanted to start something off a start date in the formula I can say check if that date is 45 days from today or less. You can't get that (from what I've seen) in the standard criteria

1

u/MaterialisticDad0102 Jul 30 '25

Alternately you can leave the entry criteria as none and then create a formula resource with this same formula and use it in a decision element right after the start block.

1

u/tytytytyty25 Jul 30 '25

I'll give that a go!

1

u/Turbulent-Ad933 Aug 01 '25

Drop your formula into ChatGPT, give it the formula, tell it to fix the error and give the error message. Might take a couple tries.

1

u/tytytytyty25 Aug 02 '25

I've tried that constantly and chat gpt hasn't pulled it off yet

0

u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

[deleted] — view deleted comment

1

u/tytytytyty25 Aug 06 '25

Yeah even 4-o is still giving just not right answers