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With over 171,000 Salesforce professionals descending on San Francisco in late September, and around 3,000 informative and inspiring breakout sessions decorating the four-day convention, Dreamforce 2018 was officially the biggest Salesforce event of all time. Part of what makes Dreamforce the premier technology event of the year is that Salesforce often takes the opportunity to …
I have cleared the Marketing Cloud Consultant Certification! Woohoo!! I have been working on Marketing Cloud for a year when I took this. The hands-on experience and the experience of working with different clients definitely helped in clearing the certification. What's more special is Salesforce itself claims that among all the consultant exams, (Service, Sales, …
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If you are certified Force.com Developer, then March'18 is the final month for you to transition to the Platform App Builder Certification. The deadline is fast approaching to take the Platform App Builder Transition certification (20 Questions only) - as you know Salesforce is completely removing the Force.com Developer Certification. If you don't transition to this, …
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THIS IS MY 100th BLOG POST! [Update: Do check out the comments section at the bottom of this post for Sample questions.] Last week, I passed Marketing Cloud Email Specialist Certification!! It is my 5th Salesforce certification, officially 4th now because Salesforce has removed the original Developer certification (401) so that is no longer counted towards Certification count. …
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SMS is a great way for companies to connect to their customers or leads and should be included in all communication strategies be it Sales, Service or Marketing. SMS has a 100% chance of reaching the customers compared to an email which often has to go through a lot of spam filters before reaching the …
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Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rebel, a startup that develops interactive email services for businesses to enhance their direct marketing services - recipients of interactive emails can write reviews, shop, do quizzes and take other actions without leaving the messages to do so. Rebel Mail redefines what email can do. It brings web functionality into …
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New Schedules – September 2018!
Preparing for Your Salesforce Administrator Certification
Date: 3rd September, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM IST/ 11:30 AM – 6:00 PM SGT / 1:30 PM – 8:00 PM AEST
Registration Link : https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2690045749613620481
Recommended trailmix here – http://sforce.co/2CC1loO
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Preparing for your Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification
Date: 4th September, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM IST/ 11:30 AM – 5:00 PM SGT / 1:30 PM – 7:00 PM AEST
Registration Link :https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8168000695682104321
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Preparing for Your Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant Certification
Date: 5th September, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM IST/ 11:30 AM – 3:00 PM SGT / 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM AEST
Registration Link :https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4963183785459276801
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Preparing for Your Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant Certification
Date: 6th September, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM IST/ 11:30 AM – 5:00 PM SGT / 1:30 PM – 7:00 PM AEST
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sfdcFanBoy blog is selected as one of the Top 75 Salesforce Developer Blogs (Rank #21, to be precise)! This is the most comprehensive list of best Salesforce Developer blogs on the internet and I’m honored to have become part of this elite list! Feedspot expert review team has done a lot of research, reviews, analysis …
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I have organized and attended many Salesforce developer events in Singapore but in June'18 I have attended my first Indian Salesforce community event - Hyderabad Trailblazin'. (I was selected as a Speaker too) It was a huge event, the first of its kind in Hyderabad, attended by big personalities of Salesforce community not just from …
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Salesforce released its latest features this summer of 2018. I've gone through the 521 Pages release notes and providing you the summary of the features. Heavily focused on Lightning, as usual, the norm in Salesforce releases now, I have split the highlights into 4 different posts: Lightning Experience Highlights, Development Highlights, Lightning App Builder Highlights, …
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Salesforce released its latest features this summer of 2018. I've gone through the 521 Pages release notes and providing you the summary of the features. Heavily focused on Lightning, as usual, the norm in Salesforce releases now, I have split the highlights into 4 different posts: Lightning Experience Highlights, Development Highlights, Lightning App Builder Highlights, …
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Salesforce released its latest features this summer of 2018. I've gone through the 521 Pages release notes and providing you the summary of the features. Heavily focused on Lightning, as usual, the norm in Salesforce releases now, I have split the highlights into 4 different posts: Lightning Experience Highlights, Development Highlights, Lightning App Builder Highlights, …
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Salesforce released its latest features this summer of 2018. I've gone through the 521 Pages release notes and providing you the summary of the features. Heavily focused on Lightning, as usual, the norm in Salesforce releases now, I have split the highlights into 4 different posts: Lightning Experience Highlights, Development Highlights, Lightning App Builder Highlights, …
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Ever wondered how much you should be earning as a Salesforce professional? What products other Trailblazers are using? What makes Salesforce experts tick? The 2018 Salesforce Salary Survey aims to answer all of the above – and any other questions you might have about the Salesforce community. The report is based on almost 28,000 data …
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I celebrated the "Salesforce-Google" strategic partnership announcement with this Google Analytics Certification! Do you want to get this free certification as well? It is easy, read on! https://twitter.com/sfdcFanBoy/status/932205773899186176 Google Analytics Individual Qualification The Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ) covers basic and advanced Google Analytics concepts. This includes planning and principles; implementation and data collection; configuration …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #38 - Wrap Text in PageBlockTable Columns I have a pageBlockTable on Products. The table displays Product Name and its Description. The description field is long text area and generally, the descriptions length is long. In fact, …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #37 - Trigger Helper Class I have a trigger that calls an Apex Handler class that does all the functionality of the trigger. The handler class uses static methods. In our scenario, the handler method calls …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #36 - Display Image from Rich Text Field in Visualforce Page I have a field of type Text Area (Rich) called Product in a Contact object. And I upload a picture to the field for one …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #35 - Test Time Dependant Workflows Here's a workflow rule with Time Dependant actions as in the actions (field updates, sending email etc) happen after a certain time configured in the Time Trigger as shown below. …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #34 - Display Closed Case Statuses In the standard Status field of Case object, I have 4 picklist values namely New, Working, Escalated and Closed. As you can see, the last one is checked for Closed status. …
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The path to Platform Developer II certification has changed and it now consists of two parts: A multiple-choice exam in Webassessor (similar to other certifications) AND 4 Trailhead Superbadges. All four of the Superbadges are available today on Trailhead: Apex Specialist, Data Integration Specialist, Lightning Component Framework Specialist, and Advanced Apex Specialist Why Change Before the trailhead Superbadges, …
