Three Powerful Formula Functions You Can Use in Flow

Often times in automation, you want activities to occur only when the record is new, when the record is updated, or when there was a record update but only if the previous field value was ‘x’. The power formula functions IsNew(), IsChanged(), and PriorValue() that you use in workflow rules and processes can also be used in record-triggered and scheduled flows.

For those new to these formula functions, let’s get oriented.

The formula function IsNew() checks to see if the record is new and will return ‘true’ if it is. The function will return ‘false’ if the record already exists. The formula function IsChanged(field) compares the values of a field to its previous value and returns ‘true’ if the values are different. If the values are the same, the function returns ‘true’. The formula function PriorValue(field) returns the previous value of the field. The business problem

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