Hi, Salesforcers!

While doing the Process Automation module, I realized that most of the Challenges are bugged in a way that you can still successfully complete the challenge even if you haven't done all the requirements. 

Let's take the Collect Information from Users and then Operate on It with Visual Workflow, the challenge being called Create a flow to streamline entry of new accounts, contacts, and opportunities. Here are the requirements:

To pass this challenge you will need to create a flow that implements the business process of Account, Contact, and Opportunity data entry and place it on a Visualforce page.
The Flow will need to be called 'New Customer Flow'.
The Flow should have a screen with fields for First Name, Last Name, Company Name, Opportunity Amount, and Opportunity Stage.
The Flow needs to have steps to create an account, a contact, and an opportunity from the data entered.
Opportunity name, close date and stage are required fields. Name the Opportunity '{Company Name} - {Last Name}', set the close date to one month from today and set the stage to 'Prospecting'.
The Flow should be invoked from a Visualforce page.
The Visualforce page should be called FlowPage.
The Visualforce page will need a component to reference the 'New Customer Flow' process.

When I completed the challenge first try, it seemed to me it was a bit too easy especially because I just hit the "Check Challenge" out of curiosity, without double checking my work. So I started changing random stuff in my flow in order to check the accuracy of this challenge. After butchering the whole flow, Trailhead would still validate it.

In the end, to make sure I'm not mistaken, I created a fresh Developer Edition and started from scratch. I created the most basic flow just to be able to activate it and then link it to a Visualforce page. As long as the page can be found, Trailhead will validate the challenge, no matter what you do inside the flow. 

While I do love Trailhead, I find this wrong as I could have thought that "I nailed it" in the first try and move on to the other challenges, which are similarly bugged, giving me a false evaluation of my skills. Until this is fixed, I suggest to the people who use Trailhead to find a second source that validates the challenges they do. For example, I found that particular unit solved here, on the forum, screenshots and all, and was able to see what I did wrong.

Have any of you encountered such issues? 
 

Hi, Salesforcers!

While doing the Process Automation module, I realized that most of the Challenges are bugged in a way that you can still successfully complete the challenge even if you haven't done all the requirements. 

Let's take the Collect Information from Users and then Operate on It with Visual Workflow, the challenge being called Create a flow to streamline entry of new accounts, contacts, and opportunities. Here are the requirements:

To pass this challenge you will need to create a flow that implements the business process of Account, Contact, and Opportunity data entry and place it on a Visualforce page.
The Flow will need to be called 'New Customer Flow'.
The Flow should have a screen with fields for First Name, Last Name, Company Name, Opportunity Amount, and Opportunity Stage.
The Flow needs to have steps to create an account, a contact, and an opportunity from the data entered.
Opportunity name, close date and stage are required fields. Name the Opportunity '{Company Name} - {Last Name}', set the close date to one month from today and set the stage to 'Prospecting'.
The Flow should be invoked from a Visualforce page.
The Visualforce page should be called FlowPage.
The Visualforce page will need a component to reference the 'New Customer Flow' process.

When I completed the challenge first try, it seemed to me it was a bit too easy especially because I just hit the "Check Challenge" out of curiosity, without double checking my work. So I started changing random stuff in my flow in order to check the accuracy of this challenge. After butchering the whole flow, Trailhead would still validate it.

In the end, to make sure I'm not mistaken, I created a fresh Developer Edition and started from scratch. I created the most basic flow just to be able to activate it and then link it to a Visualforce page. As long as the page can be found, Trailhead will validate the challenge, no matter what you do inside the flow. 

While I do love Trailhead, I find this wrong as I could have thought that "I nailed it" in the first try and move on to the other challenges, which are similarly bugged, giving me a false evaluation of my skills. Until this is fixed, I suggest to the people who use Trailhead to find a second source that validates the challenges they do. For example, I found that particular unit solved here, on the forum, screenshots and all, and was able to see what I did wrong.

Have any of you encountered such issues?