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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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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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Webinar: Hot Tips to Get You Building Salesforce with ⚡ Lightning Components ⚡ The first in our APAC online workshop series kicks off this August with a super charged session about Lightening Components... Join Master Instructor Rahul Shah to learn more about: What are Lightning Components? Difference between Visualforce and Lightning Components What should I …
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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 these kind of questions in Salesforce forums and the most common response to all these questions is an incomplete, one-line answer "Check Trailhead"! Though the answer is right, …
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How to deploy a custom metadata type from sandbox to another sandbox or production org using change sets? The normal practice is you create an outbound change set (CS), add the custom metadata type and the fields to the change set and deploy. Right? Well, that's not it! If you just add the object (custom …
In this blog post, I'd be discussing the different ways to lock a Salesforce record in UI. By lock, I mean, the user shouldn't be able to edit the field values of the record. I have identified 7 ways to lock a record using configuration and coding. There is a general requirement that the Business doesn't …
The following post explains how to send a complex, stylized table formatted email with data records from your Salesforce system. For this, we will be using Visualforce Email Template, Visualforce Component with an apex custom controller. The visualforce component will be placed in the email template; the custom controller will pull the required data from Salesforce using …
Salesforce has introduced Optimizer to evaluate your Salesforce org implementation which determines how your company uses "certain" Salesforce features, then identifies ways that you can improve. This is available for free for everyone. You can run Optimizer in sandbox/production to receive recommendations to: Improve features Clean up customizations Reduce complexity and Drive feature adoption. Features Evaluated …
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One fine day, I was browsing through the questions on Answers Community. A gentleman posted that his organization had over 150 dashboards which need to be refreshed simultaneously at a particular time of the day and currently they are doing it manually, which I understood was a tremendous overhead. I thought for a while and started posting an answer pointing towards whats stopping him to schedule a dashboard refresh. But then I thought maybe I should check the documentation and what I found was –
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The typical login screen of your Salesforce instance looks like the below image. The right half of the page is completely used by Salesforce to promote its events, features etc. The left half of the page is login inputs with Salesforce logo. Have you ever had the thought to change the Salesforce login screen : To …
Salesforce's Spring 17 release date in sandboxes is fast approaching and Salesforce has given us the Release Notes. Here in this blog post, I would like to highlight the updates this release (of 450+ pages) brings to Salesforce specifically to "Lightning Experience". To set up Einstein & its Features, learn here (screenshots added). For Lightning App Builder specific updates in …
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In this post, I'm highlighting all the new features introduced into Reports & Dashboards specially for Lightning Experience with Spring 17 release. There are quite a few updates to Lightning though few are old and existing in Classic Salesforce. To set up Einstein & its Features, learn here (screenshots added). Read the highlights from All of the Spring 17 updates …
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 In this post, I will highlight all the new features introduced into Lightning App Builder with Spring 17 release. To set up Einstein & its Features, learn here (screenshots added). Read the highlights from All of the Spring 17 updates here. What's new in Reports & Dashboards in Lightning Experience this Spring 17, …
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Salesforce introduced "Sales Cloud Einstein" License to support Artificial Intelligent features it released this year. When you purchase Sales Cloud Einstein, Salesforce installs two packages in your org, SalesforceIQ Cloud and Sales Insights. Each package adds an associated integration user and profile. Salesforce uses these entities to provide "Insights" to your org. How it works? To …
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As a Salesforce Developer, have you ever worried about the code in your Salesforce org and wanted to check if: the code you have written/existing code is in line with the best practices? you have followed the coding guidelines suggested by Salesforce? there are any loop holes in the code that could cause severe security …
Dreamforce 2016, the Salesforce's Largest Annual Conference to be held in October, will unveil a product called Salesforce Einstein! Benioff announces a big product or two every year at Dreamforce, but Einstein is something different. “If this is not the next big thing, I don’t know what is,” says Marc Benioff, the CEO of the world’s …
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If you are using Lightning Experience in your Salesforce instances, then by now you must be familiar with this view, the navigation menu on your left side. The menu that holds all your tabs and helps in navigating you to different objects. Now that is changing! Yes, the vertical navigation menu is changing. It will no …
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This post has a working example of dynamic search in a Visualforce page and the results shown with pagination. There are 4 field search criteria including date fields too which makes it more interesting. The results upon clicking Search will display below the Search section with 4 buttons to paginate. The Next/Last Page buttons grey …
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If you use any date fields in Apex, it prints in this format System.debug('Date: '+contact.Date); Output: 2016-04-26 00:00:00 To change the format you can simply use: format() System.debug('Date: '+contact.Date.format()); Output: 26/04/2016
How do we use LIKE in SOQL to find accounts that contain the string ABC? Using the following query List<Account> accList = [SELECT Id FROM Account WHERE Name LIKE %ABC%]; Lets say, there is a set of Account Names with these 3 accounts below (abc, xyz, rst) Set<String> setAccNames = new Set<String>(); setAccNames.add('ABC'); setAccNames.add('XYZ'); setAccNames.add('RST'); And …
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