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 …
Salesforce Certification Exam Results In Section Percentages (%)
Salesforce Certification results now shows "% scores" for each of the sections in the exam along with "Pass/Fail" result. The sections provided in your results directly relate to the sections listed in the exam outline of the study guide. If you receive 90% for a specific section, that means you answered 90% of the questions …
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Spring 17 Release – Lightning Experience Highlights
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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Spring 17 Reports & Dashboards Updates in Lightning Experience
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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Spring 17 Release – Lightning App Builder Updates
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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Sales Cloud Einstein – Setup and Features
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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Salesforce E-Commerce Cloud
Salesforce could soon introduce a brand new Cloud to it's wide variety of growing cloud platforms. We already know, during Dreamforce 2015, Salesforce introduced a new cloud, IoT Cloud to its feathers. Today (June 2016), with the acquisition of a Twelve-year-old company Demandware which provides an enterprise-class cloud commerce development platform, Salesforce would soon step into an area which …
Awesome Global Picklists
Update: This article was written when Global Picklists was launched. Salesforce has now renamed Global Picklists to Picklist Value Sets. Do you want to use same pick list values in different objects across the system? Global Picklists is your answer! Global Picklists lets you efficiently reuse a single list of values for multiple custom picklist …
Salesforce Shield
To help customers with complex governance and compliance needs, Salesforce is introducing Salesforce Shield, a premium set of integrated services built natively in the Salesforce1 Platform. Salesforce Shield lets customers see who is doing what with sensitive data, know the state and value of their data going back up to ten years, and encrypt sensitive data …
Run Script After Sandbox Creation and Refresh
This feature is to make your sandbox environment business ready, automate data manipulation or business logic tasks or even to schedule your jobs. At sandbox creation, specify a single Apex class to perform the tasks. This class executes every time the sandbox is refreshed/copied. Create an Apex class that implements SandboxPostCopy and specify the class here. For example, the …
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