Salesforce Flow deactivation using Metadata API

Salesforce Flow is a powerful tool, offering declarative solutions for various business processes within the Salesforce ecosystem. While creating and updating flows is straightforward, deactivating an active flow presents its own set of challenges.

Typically, one might assume that updating the <status> tag in the flow XML file to a value indicating "Inactive" would deactivate the flow.

According to the documentation, there are four possible status values:

• Active


• Draft—In the UI, this status appears as Inactive.


• Obsolete—In the UI, this …

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