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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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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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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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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 …
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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If you use any date fields in Apex, it prints in this format System.debug('Date: '+contact.Date); Output: 2016-04-26 00:00:00 To change the format you can simply use: format() System.debug('Date: '+contact.Date.format()); Output: 26/04/2016
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 …
I was very glad with the release of Custom Metadata Type Settings. But there are limited number of field types that we can create (similar to custom settings). It would be hugely useful if "Rich Text" and "Lookup" field types can be added. Here are the 2 ideas that needs your votes! Need 'Rich Text' field …
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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 …
Came across a scenario where I had to sort a wrapper class. Normal list sorting is simple, list.sort(); would help. But for a wrapper class, it's not straight-forward but it isn't that hard. Below is a simple wrapper class without sorting - this wrapper has 2 columns : Area and AD. global class AreaWrapper{ public String …
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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