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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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The typical login screen of your Salesforce instance looks like the below image. The right half of the page is completely used by Salesforce to promote its events, features etc. The left half of the page is login inputs with Salesforce logo. Have you ever had the thought to change the Salesforce login screen : To …
Salesforce Certification results now shows "% scores" for each of the sections in the exam along with "Pass/Fail" result. The sections provided in your results directly relate to the sections listed in the exam outline of the study guide. If you receive 90% for a specific section, that means you answered 90% of the questions …
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Summer'16 released a critical feature of "Metadata Relationship Fields" in Custom Metadata Types. Now we can create relationships between Metadata types. Or even a Metadata type can be related with Entity definitions i.e., standard objects or custom objects. Beautiful ! But the 5 standard objects that are currently supported are Account, Case, Contact, Lead and Opportunity. …
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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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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 …
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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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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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
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