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Files and Stores
Two places a flow can keep things: Files for documents, and Stores for small values it needs to remember.
Files
Files holds the files your flows use or produce. It can be something fixed, like the image in an email, or a large file a flow processes and then deletes. Use Upload File to add one by hand. The list shows the name, the upload date, the flow that uses it and the size.
There is a limit to how much data can travel from one step to the next. Above about 5 MB, keep the file in Files and pass only its ID to the following steps.
Delete All removes every file. There is no undo, and a flow that expects one of those files will fail on its next run.
Stores
A store is a simple table of keys and values that flows read and write. It is the memory of Edge Connect: a value a flow saves in one run is still there on the next.
- Click Create store and give it a name.
- Add a record with the +: a key, and the value it holds.
- In the flow, add the Storage step, choose Get, and pick the store and the key.
Two good uses
- Values that rarely change, like Record Type IDs. Reading a store costs nothing, while asking Salesforce for the same value uses one of your calls.
- Avoiding duplicates. Save the ID of each record you process as a key. If the same ID arrives again, the flow knows it already handled it.