Limit Access Within Your Flow Using Custom Permissions

In a previously published blog post, Why You Should Add Custom Permissions to Your #AwesomeAdmin Tool Belt, I introduced you to custom permissions. This feature has been around since Winter ’15 but remains fairly unknown and underutilized by the admin community. Awesome admins can use this superpower to lock or unlock user access to apps or processes.

In this blog post, we’ll focus on how admins can use custom permissions in Flow to either permit or deny a user from accessing a certain path in Flow.

Business problem

There has been rather high turnover at Sunshine Cupcakes, our fictional company, as of late. Devohne Mays, Operations Manager, wants to implement quality check measures for new hires to ensure they are processing the orders at the quality level that Sunshine Cupcakes has been known for. Devohne inquires with admin Addison Dogster whether all orders processed (that is, Status field value equals