Add Custom Fields to Appointment Guidance Flow

Appointment Guidance leads the call center agent through a screen flow to determine the correct visit type and provider for an appointment. Use custom fields in the flow to set the filter values in the provider preferences panel of the Intelligent Appointment Management console.
Available in: Enterprise and Unlimited Editions with Health Cloud

User Permissions Needed
To use Intelligent Appointment Management: Health Cloud Manage Appointment
To open, edit, or create a flow Manage Flow

Before completing this task, enable Provider Search and Intelligent Appointment Management. Also, create the custom fields for Provider Search on both the record and the Care Provider Searchable Field object.

  1. Add the Care Provider Searchable Fields custom fields to the Healthcare Appointment Scheduler Component.
    1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Lightning App Builder, and then select Lightning App Builder.
    2. Select Edit next to the page that includes the Healthcare Appointment Scheduler component.
    3. In the details tab, under Search Panel Fields, select Add Field. Each time you click Add Field any new fields since the component was last updated are added. Click multiple times to see all available fields. The Add Field button deactivates when all fields have been added.
    4. Drag fields into the desired display order.
  2. Save and Activate the Lightning page.
  3. Create flow variables to output values to the provider preferences panel.
    1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Flows, and select Flows.
    2. Click New Flow.
    3. Select Screen Flow, then click Create.
    4. From the toolbox, click Manager.
    5. Click New Resource.
    6. For Resource Type, select Variable.
    7. Enter an API name and Description for your variable.

      The API name of the flow variable must include only the field name, without the __c. For example if the Care Provider Searchable Field Name is ProviderTypeSync__c, you’d enter ProviderTypeSync.

      Note

  4. Select the Data Type. Only Text, Picklist, and Multi-Select Picklist are supported. The flow sets the field’s value in the provider preferences panel depending on the field types of the Care Provider Searchable Field and the flow variable.
    Care Provider Searchable Field Type Flow Variable Field Type Result
    Text Text or Picklist Value of the flow output is set in panel
    Picklist Text or Picklist Value of the flow output is set in panel
    Multi-Select Picklist Text or Picklist Multiple values are concatenated with ; for text
    Multi-Select Picklist Multi-Select Picklist Iterate through values in flow to set values on the Multi-Select Picklist
  5. Click Done.
You can now create a custom flow to use for appointment guidance and include these custom fields. In that flow, you use these variables and assign values to them that will set the provider preferences filter values in the Intelligent Appointment Management console.