Timeout when retrieving Flows

[RobertoArconadaS4G]

To retrieve flows, it is necessary to get every flows of any type from de org. This causes, depending the number of flows in the org, a timeout limit exception calling metadata api.

[hmolto]

If this happens to you, as a workaround we recommend inactivating those categories. Go to Custom Metadata > Category Settings (Manage), and inactivate Record Before Trigger Flows, Record After Trigger Flows and Process Builders

[jonathanwiesel]

For RTFs (record-triggered flows) we can filter out which flows we specifically need without fetching everything with the following query:

SELECT Id, ActiveVersionId, TriggerOrder TriggerType FROM FlowDefinitionView WHERE TriggerObjectOrEvent.QualifiedApiName = :objectApiName

This approach however does not apply to Process Builder type flows that will need to be fetched to determine the applicable object. Although filtering the FlowDefinitionView object by ProcessType = 'Workflow' we can at least keep the unrelated fetching to a minimum