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 #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 …
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A Tip A Day – New blog series!
I’ve always had a thought to start a Series of posts like – MondayBites, TuesdayTips or FridayFreebies – to talk about one Salesforce topic every week, share the knowledge and stay connected with 200+ awesome subscribers of my blog. Today, I’m back to working non-stop mode and I thought why not post one learning every …
A Tip A Day #1 – Lead Mapping to Standard Fields
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #1 - Lead Conversion Mapping To Standard Fields Today, I was working on lead fields mapping for lead conversion - standard feature, simple right? The standard feature that lets you map Lead fields to Account, Contact …
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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, …
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Spring 17 Release – Lightning Experience Highlights
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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Spring 17 Reports & Dashboards Updates in Lightning Experience
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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Spring 17 Release – Lightning App Builder Updates
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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Sales Cloud Einstein – Setup and Features
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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Salesforce Code Scanner – Health Check
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 …
Salesforce’s Force.com Certifications Expiring!
The expected has happened - Salesforce is completely "retiring" its Force.com Developer Certifications namely, Salesforce Certified Force.com Developer and Salesforce Certified Force.com Advanced Developer. 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 certifications for developers during …
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My Single Page Salesforce Resume
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. Quite impressed, I thought if Yahoo CEO can fit her CV into a single page, then definitely I should be able to also with just 8 …
How to add business days to a date in Salesforce formula ?
Good Post by Force-Base.Com!
Many a times we come across requirements wherein we are supposed to set the due date to a certain number of days from a particular date. Most of the times, organizations insist on setting it to certain number of business days later. This is the point where many admins get stuck figuring out how to add business days to a particular date. I have personally seen many questions asked regarding this in the Salesforce success and developer communities. So thought of writing a post on the same which might help these folks if they have to setup something similar in the future.
Suppose you want to set it to 14 days after a certain date and if you simply add 14 to the value of a date field, Salesforce formula will also include the weekends by default. So how do we override this ?
Well, to do that we need…
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Use Trailhead to get Salesforce Admin Certified
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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Salesforce Einstein – Coming This Dreamforce’16
Dreamforce 2016, the Salesforce's Largest Annual Conference to be held in October, will unveil a product called Salesforce Einstein! Benioff announces a big product or two every year at Dreamforce, but Einstein is something different. “If this is not the next big thing, I don’t know what is,” says Marc Benioff, the CEO of the world’s …
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Salesforce Trailhead Profile Widget
I have designed this little Trailhead Profile Widget that has trail head stats. As Salesforce Trailhead freaks, I thought there should be a consolidated stats of the trailhead modules we complete. Here's the one I designed This can be treated more like a "digital business card of your trailhead profile". It has the name (or an …
Lightning Navigation Menu – Change is Coming
If you are using Lightning Experience in your Salesforce instances, then by now you must be familiar with this view, the navigation menu on your left side. The menu that holds all your tabs and helps in navigating you to different objects. Now that is changing! Yes, the vertical navigation menu is changing. It will no …
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Visualforce Pagination with Dynamic Search
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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Salesforce E-Commerce Cloud
Salesforce could soon introduce a brand new Cloud to it's wide variety of growing cloud platforms. We already know, during Dreamforce 2015, Salesforce introduced a new cloud, IoT Cloud to its feathers. Today (June 2016), with the acquisition of a Twelve-year-old company Demandware which provides an enterprise-class cloud commerce development platform, Salesforce would soon step into an area which …
Salesforce Technical Architect Certification Update
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!