Flow metadata is alredy as unreadable as it could get , while doing regular flow deployments we overwrote some target references of elements and now flow was stuck in Free-Form layout with error One or more elements without an incoming connection. Upon further digging in found that incoming edge /target references of 2-3 nodes was removed or changed to different node.
This discrepency in edges of flow makes flow layout Free-Form and prevents from changing to AUTO-LAYOUT. Some of us already hate flows and freeform layout just makes developer experience even worse.
Solving for a really few people out there who are facing this beautiful error One or more elements without an incoming connection. and want to find out which nodes do not have incoming edge but have outgoing edge.
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- Get metadata of the flow you want to analyze with tooling API [Or Use salesforce inspector on flow detail page]
- Make a
POSTrequest on https://flow-incoming-edge-analyzer.onrender.com/analyze - Add copied metadata into body.
- Hit it !!!!!!
- Based on analysis you should get array back in
resulttag. - Result is list of nodes without incoming nodes but have outgoing edge.
- Feel free to provide UI 😁
- There are some really bad lines of code ever written in repository , Feel free to make PRs to solve for them.