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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, learnĀ hereĀ (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" LicenseĀ to support Artificial Intelligent features it released this year. Ā When you purchase Sales Cloud Einstein, Salesforce installs two packages in your org, SalesforceIQ Cloud and Sales Insights. Ā 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 …
The expected has happened - Salesforce is completely "retiring" its Force.com Developer Certifications namely,Ā Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer and Salesforce Certified Force.com Advanced Developer.Ā Yes you read that right, these 2 certifications are about to expire! In September 2015, Salesforce has stopped offering Force.com Developer credentials to new applicants and then introduced 3 new certificationsĀ for developers during …
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Recently, I have read a news blog that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has created a Single Page CV for herself - all of her work experience, education, including her daily activities. Ā Quite impressed, I thought if Yahoo CEO can fit her CVĀ into a single page, then definitelyĀ I should be able to also with just 8 …
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Looking to get Salesforce Certified, and wondering where to start the preparation? Ā 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 TrailheadĀ - The fun way to learn Salesforce. Ā But how can we connect these both, the …
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Dreamforce 2016, the Salesforce's Largest Annual Conference to be held in October, will unveil a product calledĀ Salesforce Einstein! Ā Benioff announces a big product or two every year at Dreamforce, but Einstein is something different. āIf this is not the next big thing, I donāt know what is,ā says Marc Benioff, the CEO of the worldās …
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I have designed this little Trailhead Profile Widget that has trail head stats. Ā As Salesforce Trailhead freaks, I thought there should be a consolidated stats ofĀ the trailhead modules we complete. Ā Here's the one I designed This can be treated more like a "digital business card of your trailhead profile". Ā It Ā has the name (or an …
If you areĀ using Lightning Experience in your Salesforce instances, then by now you must be familiar with this view, the navigation menu on your left side. Ā The menu that holds all your tabs and helps in navigating you to different objects. Ā Now that is changing! Yes, the vertical navigation menu is changing. Ā It will no …
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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. Ā The results upon clicking Search will display below the Search section with 4 buttons to paginate. Ā The Next/Last Page buttons grey …
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Salesforce could soon introduce a brand new Cloud to it's wide variety of growing cloud platforms. Ā We already know, duringĀ Dreamforce 2015, Salesforce introduced a new cloud,Ā IoT Cloud to its feathers. Today (June 2016), with the acquisition of aĀ Twelve-year-old companyĀ Demandware which provides an enterprise-class cloud commerce development platform, Salesforce would soon step into an area which …
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!
If you useĀ any date fields in Apex, it prints in this format System.debug('Date: '+contact.Date); Output: Ā 2016-04-26 00:00:00 To change the format you can simply use: format() System.debug('Date: '+contact.Date.format()); Output: Ā 26/04/2016
Update:Ā This article was written when Global Picklists was launched. Ā Salesforce has now renamed Global Picklists to Picklist Value Sets. Ā Do you want to use same pick list values in different objects across the system? Ā 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 isĀ 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 numberĀ 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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This feature is to make your sandbox environment business ready, automate data manipulation or business logic tasks or even to schedule your jobs. At sandbox creation, specify a singleĀ ApexĀ class to perform the tasks. This class executes every time the sandbox is refreshed/copied. Create anĀ ApexĀ class that implements SandboxPostCopy and specify the class here. For example, the …
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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 …
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