How to get Record Type Dynamically

This is one of the common scenarios Salesforce admins wonder "How to get Record Type Dynamically over hard coding Id of the Record type". Well Hardcoding the Id is indeed very simple and it has its own pros and cons.

• It is not exactly an advantage of hardcoding but you can do it when you want to do a quick demo.
• The Major con of copying and paste of Id is when you migrate the flow to staging or production environments the record type id will vary, in that case the hardcoded value from sandbox will be different from destination environment which will lead to failure of the flow.

Is there a way to Dynamically get the Record type?

The Answer is Yes!.

In my use case i am getting a record type called "Invoice" from contact.

Here at the Step 1, I am Getting Contact to initiate the flow

Then i am creating a new variable for storing contact Record type's API name which is "Invoice"

And then i am doing another Get for Record type object and i am using the previously created variable.

On record creation i am using RecordTypeId to make the field

OnDebugging Mode

So you would ask can i use this method only for RecordTypes?

My Answer is No! you can apply the same solution to get queues etc...

For Getting a Queue, just replace RecordType object in get with Group object.