Salesforce Flows | How to Loop on Multi Select Picklist Values in a Flow?

Want to Parse and Loop on the Multi-Select Picklist Values in a Flow?

Parsing the Multi-Select Picklist Selected values in a Flow is required where we need to use Selected Multi-Select Picklist values later inside the Flow for Loop and various use cases. Like using Multi-Select Picklist values as a Collection variable to Loop on them.

To Loop over Multi-Select Picklist values in a Flow, we need to Assign the Multi-Select Picklist Values to a Collection Variable. Because we can only Loop using Collection variables in a Flow.

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Why do we need to Parse Multi-Select Picklist Values in Flow?

Well, we need it because whenever we use a Multi-Select Field on a Flow Screen or query a Multi-select field value of any record using a Get Element, the format of the Multi-Select values is like this [A;B;C;D] which are semi-colon separated and not comma-separated. This kind of a variable is not considered as a Flow Collection Variable and cannot be used as a Flow Loop Variable. We somehow need to convert the Format of these values to [A,B,C,D] similar to a text collection variable so that it can be used in Loops to Loop on Multi Select Values in a Flow.

There are many solutions that I found on Google and community forums for a workaround of this problem.

But they all require either a Big Formula or a lot of Flow Elements and overall the Flow becomes quite complex.

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The best part is that you just need to download an Apex Action to use this Feature.

Download the Un-Managed Package from the Links Below:

Production: https://login.salesforce.com/packaging/installPackage.apexp?p0=04t4K000002Jnkt

Sandbox: https://test.salesforce.com/packaging/installPackage.apexp?p0=04t4K000002Jnkt

To see the detailed steps and examples, you can check out this article on Accidental Coder.

Hope this helps!