Using the Time Slot Picker in a Screen Flow
You can use the Time Slot Picker as part of your Screen flows in Salesforce. This component is labeled: Single dimension time slot picker. This component expects a number of variables to be passed into the Time Slot Picker screen component. The following variables have to be provided
Field | Input/ouput | Description |
|---|---|---|
List of Dimension Ids (Required) | Input | A list of dimension-ids need to be provided. This can, for example, be a list of all the resources you want to allow the Time Slot Picker to search through. |
Reservation Type (Required) | Input | The Name of the Reservation Type. You can set the duration of a Timeslot on this reservation type. The fallback is set to 60 minutes. |
Should the Timeslot Picker be required? (Required) | Input | Expects {!GlobalConstant.True} or {!GlobalConstant.False}. Determines if the value needs to be filled before navigating to the next step. |
Date (Optional) | Input | A date needs to be parsed to allow the Time Slot Picker to fetch the available time slots for that day. |
Reservation (Optional) | Input | You can optionally set a sample reservation if there are any other dependencies that should be taken into account when creating the timeslot |
Show Date Input field (Optional) | Input | Expects {!GlobalConstant.True} or {!GlobalConstant.False}. If true, their is a date picker at the top of the Timeslot Picker which can be used to navigate between days. |
Reservation | Output | Make sure to Manually assign the output Reservation (under advanced) to a “Record (single) Variable” of the type B25__Reservation__c. You can use this reservation to either extend in your flow or save it directly after using this component.  |
A Sample flow would look like this, which has the output as shown in the video on the right.
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