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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I – Winter’18 Release Exam

Salesforce Certified Platform Developer 1 Maintenance Release Exam Summer 17 Question and Answers

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, …