Very recently, one of my fellow #flownatic friend, Andy, shared a tweet about scheduled flows which led to some interesting suggestions on the thread.

#Salesforce#Flow brainteaser of the day. These two flows do the same thing. Why would you choose one approach over the other? #Automationpic.twitter.com/YJa2NH8psE

— Andy Engin Utkan (@enginutkan) July 10, 2021

The question here is which approach should you be taking, left or right? Take a moment to think about it! Which one did you pick?

So the ideal approach here would be the flow on the left. There is a ‘but’ here, that’ll get to a little later.
Before that let’s understand what’re the pitfalls of using the flow on the right.

1. Can very easily hit 50,000 records SOQL limit.
2. Even before 50k records SOQL limit, it will hit 2000(Maximum) elements executed limit.

Here, the 2nd pitfall is very specific to this…