As with all things with labels, it’s a good idea to have a naming convention for your flows.

A proper convention allows you and your clients to find what they are looking for easily. It also makes things easier to support, and to create a sense of structure.

If multiple consultants and admins are building flows, you don’t want the results to look like there were dozens of cooks in the kitchen.

Below is a naming convention you are free to use.

For record-triggered flows, start with the object name, then the trigger, then the action performed.

Examples:

  • “Contact Updated – Set Custom Field”
  • “Account Created – Set Primary Contact”

For all other flows, start with a verb, then the object name. For verbs, keep to a small list, such as

  • Get
  • Create
  • Update
  • Delete
  • Process
  • Search
  • Manage

Examples:

  • “Get Campaigns”
  • “Manage Attendance”
  • “Create Payment from Opportunity”

The takeaway
Keeping to simple and concise naming convention for your flows keeps things in order.

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