Flow to Delete a Child Record

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In this Blog, we are Going to Learn How to create a flow to delete a Child record.

Lets understand the usecase and Implement it-

Usecase- Adam is the Account Owner of Account "Apextips" and he is observing that there are many associated Contacts records having Lastname as "Test" or something  a common name which he don't want to get  shown on Account in the related contact list records. So he want that when Account Record is Edited/Created then all the associated Child contacts having last name "test" will automatically gets deleted

Didnt understood? No Problem

Action Speaks More than Words

Checkout this Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuDcPxuJjvw&t=275s

Lets try to Solve Adam's Problem-

There are 2 Solutions for that-

1) Calling a Apex Class from Process Builder to delete child record(Contact)

2) Creating a Flow to delete child record(Contact)

We are going to Implement Solution 2 in this Blog, Lets Implement it-

Lets Create Flow First-

Step 1- Go to Setup and search "Flow", then Click on Flows

Step 2- Click on New Flow and select "Record-Triggered Flow" 

Step 3- Select the Object "Account" and click on edit and enter details as below snap

Step 4- Drag the "Get Records" Component in workspace and fill the details as shown in below snap

Step 5- Join first component and second component using connecting dots

Step 6- Drag the "Workspace" Component in workspace and fill the details as shown in below snap

Step 7- Connect the dots between "Get records" and "Delete records"

Step 8-  Save your Flow and Click on Activate

Step 9- Testing of Flow

• Create 1 Account named "Apextips"
• Create 1 Contact having LastName = "Test"
• Edit any field of Account, Your test contact will automatically gets deleted

Hurray......We are Done with the implementation.

Hope you Learned something New

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Thanks

Happy Learning😊

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