New MVP – Sadahiro Suzuki shares his journey

Sadahiro Suzuki has been awarded with MVP status by Salesforce in September 2017 for his outstanding contribution to Salesforce community in sharing knowledge, leadership skills, and showing creativity within the Salesforce Community.  Here is his journey to MVP status in his own words! Brief Intro about yourself? What do you do? I am a Salesforce …

A Tip A Day #14 – Data Load Date and DateTime Fields

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 …

A Tip A Day #13 – Data Load Non-English Characters into Salesforce

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 …

A Tip A Day #12 – BEST MESSAGE EVER

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 - …

New Salesforce MVPs Interview by sfdcFanBoy

Salesforce has announced 28 new Salesforce MVPs and re-awarded 102 of them, this month (Sep'17) for Summer 17 class.  The Salesforce MVP program honors and awards those making exceptional contributions to the Salesforce Community. BIG Congratulations to all of them!!!  Each and every one of them is an inspiration to me and many others in the community.  …

New MVP – Carlos shares his journey

  Carlos has been awarded with MVP status by Salesforce in September 2017 for his outstanding contribution to Salesforce community in sharing knowledge, leadership skills, and showing creativity within the Salesforce Community.  Here is his journey to MVP status in his own words! Brief Intro about yourself? What do you do? I have over 20 …

New MVP – Alba Rivas shares her journey

Alba Rivas has been awarded with MVP status by Salesforce in September 2017 for her outstanding contribution to Salesforce community in sharing knowledge, leadership skills, and showing creativity within the Salesforce Community.  Here is her journey to MVP status in her own words! Brief Intro about yourself? What do you do? I am the South …

New MVP – Samantha Safin shares her journey

Samantha Safin has been awarded with MVP status by Salesforce in September 2017 for her outstanding contribution to Salesforce community in sharing knowledge, leadership skills, and showing creativity within the Salesforce Community.  Here is her journey to MVP status in her own words! Brief Intro about yourself? What do you do? I am a Project …

New MVP – Junko Nakayama shares her journey

Junko Nakayama has been awarded with MVP status by Salesforce in September 2017 for her outstanding contribution to Salesforce community in sharing knowledge, leadership skills, and showing creativity within the Salesforce Community.  Here is her journey to MVP status in her own words! Special thanks to Junko Nakayama for taking extra efforts in translating her …

New MVP – Misty Jones shares her journey

Misty Jones has been awarded with MVP status by Salesforce in September 2017 for her outstanding contribution to Salesforce community in sharing knowledge, leadership skills, and showing creativity within the Salesforce Community.  Here is her journey to MVP status in her own words!   Brief Intro about yourself? What do you do? I am a …

New MVP – Amy Oplinger shares her journey

Amy Oplinger has been awarded with MVP status by Salesforce in September 2017 for her outstanding contribution to Salesforce community in sharing knowledge, leadership skills, and showing creativity within the Salesforce Community.  Here is her journey to MVP status in her own words! And you can't talk about AMY without a GIF -   So here's …

Reports and Dashboards Enhancements – Released in Summer’17

I found this post in my drafts, drafted long ago. I missed to publish - Better late than never, so posting now! #LatePost This post specifically highlights the features of Lightning Report Builder released in Summer'17! Add Dashboard Filters in Lightning Experience Add, edit, or remove filters from your Lightning Experience dashboard directly. Without dashboard filters, you’d …

Lightning App Builder Enhancements – Released in Winter’18

Check out the the other "Lightning Experience features" released in Winter'18. Check out the "Reports & Dashboards" Features of Winter'18 This post specifically highlights the features of Lightning App Builder released in Winter'18! Make Your Lightning Pages Dynamic Now you can control when a component appears on a record page by adding filter conditions and logic to …

Reports and Dashboards Enhancements – Released in Winter’18

Check out the the other "Lightning Experience features" released in Winter'18. Check out new "Lightning App Builder" features This post specifically highlights the features of Lightning Report Builder released in Winter'18! Introducing Lightning Report Builder Lightning Report Builder : Differences Between the Lightning and Classic Report Builders Feature Difference Report Formats In the Salesforce Classic report builder, you …

Sales Cloud Lightning Experience features released in Winter’18

Check out Lightning Report Builder & latest enhancements to "Reports & Dashboards" in Lightning Experience. Check out new "Lightning App Builder" features Lightning Experience Enhancements Lightning Experience Gets a New Look and Feel More information density and less white space Improved legibility (using font size and color) Added color and a background image.  (Setup --> Themes …

My Salesforce Career Story and Career Guidance for Students & Salesforce Starters – Featured on AppleForA

I have shared my Salesforce Career Story and answered the most intriguing questions faced by Students who are looking to start their careers in Salesforce technology. Though I have answered the questions aiming at Students, this will also be very useful for those who are looking to switch to Salesforce technology or starting their careers …

Trailhead APAC – Certification Prep Webinars (May-Sep 2017)!

Updated dates for September sessions! Register now!! Note:  With the merger of Salesforce University with Trailhead, this post name has been updated "Salesforce University Trailhead Certification Preparation Webinars"!

A Tip A Day #11 – Workaround for PriceBookEntry Trigger/Workflow

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 …

A Tip A Day #10 – ISCLONE in Trigger

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 …