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As you all know Salesforce Developer Certification (401) has been retired starting Feb 2017, and many are confused on the next process - especially when to take the transition exam and when to stop doing the maintenance exam. I have already explained the dates and the transistion paths in my earlier post - Certification Expiration Here's …
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Here's the handy Salesforce Certification Paths!
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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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 …
Looking to get Salesforce Certified, and wondering where to start the preparation? There are Study Guides for Salesforce Certification but they only talk about the topics the certification covers and their corresponding weight-age of each topic. And then there is Trailhead - The fun way to learn Salesforce. But how can we connect these both, the …
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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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Finally this month (May 2016), Salesforce has released more details on 3 of the Domain Specialist Certifications Exam details and made the 3 exams ready for the public to grab!
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 …
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 …
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 …
Apex based sharing a record with a User or Public Group is easy and direct. Below is the sample sharing of an Account record with a user. AccountShare Acctshr = new AccountShare(); Acctshr.AccountId = aid; Acctshr.UserOrGroupId = 'User.Id'; Acctshr.AccountAccessLevel = 'Edit'; Acctshr.OpportunityAccessLevel = 'Edit'; Database.SaveResult sr = Database.insert(Acctshr,false); But how do you share with a …
Attended Dreamforce this year, my first time in forever and its been an awesome experience with great learning. Travelled all the way from Singapore to San Francisco and Dreamforce didn't disappoint a bit. This time Dreamforce is bigger than before with whopping 1,70,000 user registrations and 1600+ sessions and some rock entertainment in the Dreamfest (the Dreamforce …
Salesforce introduced 3 new developer certifications for Force.com developers Platform Developer I Platform Developer II Platform App Builder The immediate question is what happens to the existing developer certifications (401 and 501). Well, you can continue to maintain your Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer credential. However, effective September 14th (2015), Salesforce will no longer be offering this credential …
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