A Tip A Day #9 – VALIDATION ON CLONED RECORD

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 …

A Tip A Day #8 – Display Line Breaks of Long Text Area in VF Page

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 …

Trailhead & Salesforce University Merge – Free Certification Maintenance Exam on Trailhead

Update: The Path for Platform Developer II has been released in Trailhead   I was so excited when Trailhead announced that it was merging with Salesforce University (@SalesforceU).  That was really big news for me - Two learning giants of Salesforce getting together as ONE, centralising all learnings. https://twitter.com/sfdcFanBoy/status/893006725711708161 https://twitter.com/trailhead/status/892871547777626112 Everyone was expecting some big …

Salesforce Certified Administrator – Winter’18 Release Exam

  POST IS PRIVATE!    Reference: Summer 17 Release Notes

A Tip A Day #7 – US Phone Validation Using RegEx

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 …

A Tip A Day #6 – Need a Free Salesforce Mentor? Want to become a Mentor?

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 …

ASIA Salesforce Certification Drive – 50% DISCOUNT

Hello Trailblazers ! Are you ready to get Salesforce certified in style ? Register to take your exam during the ASIA Certification Drive and you could collect yourself a nice shiny Salesforce credential along with some helpful supplies for the journey : 50% discount on your certification exam Exclusive Salesforce Swag Re-take voucher if you …

A Tip A Day #5 – AppExchange Apps to scan Business/Name Cards

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 …

A Tip A Day #4 – Formula To Add Months To Date Field (Easy? Read on!)

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 …

A Tip A Day #3 – Outlook & Salesforce Integration

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 …

A Tip A Day #2 – Display custom popup message while Submitting for Approval

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 …

Event: Building Salesforce with ⚡ Lightning Components ⚡

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 …

Practice Exam – Sales Cloud Consultant Certification

Here is the latest Practice Exam (2017) from the Certification Prep Webinar Series conducted by Salesforce University for the Sales Cloud Consultant certification.  You will not find these slides anywhere (unless you take the classroom sessions). The slides have been made Private.  To get the access and continue learning, you can register for future Webinars using the link provided …

Sales Cloud Consultant Certification Preparation Slides

Here are the slides from the Certification Prep Webinar Series conducted by Salesforce University for the Sales Cloud Consultant certification.  You will not find these slides anywhere. This was delivered by Salesforce Certified Instructors.  The slides explain in detail each of the topics that are required for clearing the certificate. The slides have been made Private.  To get the access …

Decoding Trailhead Admin-Beginner Modules

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, …

Free Certification Prep Webinars (Aug 2019)!

The FREE Salesforce Certification Preparation webinars are back - #Certification Days Led by expert certified instructors, these 1-day virtual courses are open to everyone. Bonus! All webinar attendees will receive a coupon code for a $70 discount off of any $200 exam.  Select and attend one or more of the following preparation webinars. *Be sure to review, and …

7 Ways to Lock a Record in Salesforce

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 …