Lightning flow allows to perform pretty complex business processes in a very configurable manner.

A smart combination of a process builder with a lightning flow can create some powerful automation managed by admins.

One common requirement though is to navigate somewhere after the flow has finished.

For some reason, I couldn’t find a proper way to do this in a configurable manner. So I had to resort to a custom component to the rescue.

In the below example I’ll show how to wrap our lightning flow with a component to control the finish behavior.

Create Aura Component

• Start By adding the lightning:flow component to your .cmp file
• We also adding here a variable for the flowName and the recordId we want to pass into the flow

<aura:component implements="force:hasRecordId" access="global">
     <aura:attribute name="flowName" type="String" access="global" /> 
     <aura:attribute name="recordId" type="String" access="global" />
     <lightning:flow aura:id="flowData" onstatuschange="{!c.handleStatusChange}" />
</aura:component>

Invoke the Flow

onInit call your JS controller `cmpTestController.js` :

doInit : function (component, event, helper) {
    let flow = component.find("flowData");
    let flowName = component.get('v.flowName');
    flow.startFlow(flowName);
}

let inputVariables = [
{
    name :"recordId",
    type :"String",
    value:component.get('v.recordId')
}
];

flow.startFlow(flowName, inputVariables);

handleStatusChange :function (component, event, helper) {

let redirectOutput=component.get('v.redirectVar'); // redirect variable that holds the recordId to navigate to

if( (event.getParam("status") === "FINISHED_SCREEN"||event.getParam("status") ==="FINISHED" ) ) {

   let outputVariables = event.getParam("outputVariables");

   let outputVar;

for(var i=0; i<outputVariables.length; i++) {

          outputVar=outputVariables[i];

          if(outputVar.name===redirectOutput) {

          let urlEvent=$A.get("e.force:navigateToSObject");

              urlEvent.setParams({

                                  "recordId":outputVar.value,
                                  "isredirect":"true"
                                });

              urlEvent.fire();
         }
         }
      }
}

References :

• Control a Flow’s Finish Behavior
• Embed a Flow in a Custom Aura Component
• Embed a Flow in a Custom Aura Component
• lightning:availableForFlowActions
• lightning:availableForFlowScreens