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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #19 - Set Currency of User I have a user whose current Currency is set as SGD - Singapore Dollar Requirement The requirement is now to change the Currency of the user to USD. Simple? I thought …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #18 - Rollup Summary Decimals in Database Lets say you have a rollup summary field of decimal on your master object record which is a SUM of currency field of your child records. Scenario: For a child …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #17 - Upload Records with Inactive Owner Recently I was migrating few old records into Salesforce using Data loader. The upload csv file had of course Record Owner field referring to the User record. I got …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #16 - Report on Duplicate Records in Salesforce Salesforce has configuration setup to identify duplicate records when users create new records. While setting it up, you have an option to 1) alert the user about it and …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #15 - Salesforce for Beginners! Where to get started in Salesforce? I’m new to this ecosystem, how to learn Salesforce? What is the best way to switch to Salesforce from other technologies? People quite frequently post …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #14 - Data Load Date / DateTime Fields into Salesforce While data loading any Date fields into Salesforce, remember to include the TIMEZONE as well in your csv file. If you miss the time zone, it …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #3 - Data Load Non-English Characters If your csv file has Non-English characters (eg: Chinese characters) to data load into Salesforce. Then are 2 settings you need to set for that data to load into Salesforce …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #12 - BEST MESSAGE EVER As part of this blog series, A Tip A Day, I post Salesforce learnings every day but for a change I thought I should post this message I received today - …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #9 - Workaround for PricebookEntry Trigger Salesforce has quite a few limitations on Product, Pricebook and Pricebookentry objects. The one that I recently faced on Pricebookentry is that we are not allowed to write triggers on Pricebookentry …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #10 - ISCLONE in Trigger Triggers work on events like Insert, Update, Delete, Undelete. There are requirements where you need to perform actions on Cloning of records too. Salesforce has the default method that checks whether …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #9 - Validation on Cloned record #ISCLONE Requirement: Is to not let the Users select Closed Won as the stage of the Opportunity when they clone an Opportunity. In other scenarios, when users clone a Closed Won …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #8 - Display Line Breaks of Long Text Area in a Visualforce page. I have a field of type long text area called "Description" in Products object. The value of this is generally a couple of paragraphs …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #7 - US Phone Validation Using RegEx (Regular Expression) US Phone Number : 222-333-4444 String phone = '222-333-4444'; String WrongPhone = '222-333' //This is the pattern that matches with the above phone number format String regExPhone …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #6 - Want to volunteer to be a Salesforce Mentor or Mentee for free? Seeking to volunteer as a Mentor? Want to learn Salesforce with the help of a mentor for free? Join Mentorship Central Mentorship …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #5 - AppExchange Apps to scan Business/Name Cards Lately, I have been researching on Apps that could scan Business Cards (Name Cards) so the Sales team can just scan the Name cards they collect to create …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #4 - Add Months to a Date field Requirement I have a Start Date field and No of Months field. I need to calculate End Date using the 2 fields. The idea is just just calculate the …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #3 - Outlook & Salesforce Integration There are 2 products offered by Salesforce and Microsoft for this integration. The products help in syncing contacts, events, and tasks between the outlook and salesforce. The Sync features and other …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #2 - Display custom popup message while Submitting for Approval Standard Approval Process Feature: When you setup Standard Approval process on any object, a standard button 'Submit For Approval' will be added to the page layout of …
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I’ve always had a thought to start a Series of posts like – MondayBites, TuesdayTips or FridayFreebies – to talk about one Salesforce topic every week, share the knowledge and stay connected with 200+ awesome subscribers of my blog. Today, I’m back to working non-stop mode and I thought why not post one learning every …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #1 - Lead Conversion Mapping To Standard Fields Today, I was working on lead fields mapping for lead conversion - standard feature, simple right? The standard feature that lets you map Lead fields to Account, Contact …
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