Evaluate Dynamic Formulas in Apex - Salesforce

“Evaluate Dynamic Formulas in Apex” is a new feature in Salesforce scheduled for release with Summer ’24 (currently in beta). It allows developers to programmatically evaluate Salesforce formulas within Apex code. This means you can write code that takes a formula as input (as a string) and evaluates it based on the context you provide, similar to how formulas are evaluated in fields or rules within Salesforce.
Here are some potential benefits of this feature:
🛎️ Real-time Calculations: Eliminate the need to store pre-calculated formula results in fields, improving efficiency.
🛎️ Increased Flexibility: Create more dynamic logic in automations, validations, and workflows by evaluating formulas at runtime.
🛎️ Enhanced User Experience: Build custom formula editors that leverage the power of the Salesforce formula engine.
In this video, I am explaining this new feature with a sample code snippet.
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▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:01 - Introduction
0:23 - What is Dynamic Formula?
2:31 - Code Snippet
5:06 - Execute the Code
6:40 - Final Thoughts
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[@SarGuP]

Can we use this for multiple records

[@TechnicalPotpourri]

Yes absolutely you can use this formula for multiple records

[@pradeepkumars975]

Thanks for the info and we can use custom meta data to handle it more efficiently

[@TechnicalPotpourri]

Agreed. It is giving us lots of flexibility.

[@pradeepkumars975]

This feature is not only for dynamic formula fields we can create custom validation rules using custom metadata and we can use it in triggers and flows as well. Is it supporting child to parent relationship value?

[@TechnicalPotpourri]

I don't think it supports child to parent relationship value. It is solely on single object.

[@awesomekj5812]

What will be the use case for this ? I feel like I can do that with IF statement as well ...isn't ? This won't work in cases where you actually need formula on page to create list view and all

[@RamananRaju-sr4rq]

good question, i have the same thought. This use case could have been easily handled through a 'if' statement why would this require a builder class