Salesforce Technology

Create Salesforce Trial Orgs for Development & Demos

The ease of creating developer or demo playgrounds in Salesforce has always been a big plus for the platform.

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3 Things I Don't Like in Salesforce Lightning

Salesforce Lightning is great. We have a sophisticated UI for the Salesforce product in Lightning-

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Google Authentication in Salesforce

In this post we will see how Google authentication can be enabled in Salesforce using OpenID connect.

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Dynamic Forms for Detail Views in Salesforce

Salesforce UI configuration has been straight forward - Create a Page Layout for an object (and assign that to profiles/permission sets) Add button/action link/other controls to layout Add fields Salesforce shows the “proven”, “battle tested”, two-column layout for the fields and that was that.

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Using Salesforce as an Authentication Provider

In this post we will see how Salesforce can be used as an authentication ( + authorisation) provider with OpenID connect.

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Integration Patterns in Salesforce

Salesforce provides some great tools to integrate other applications. This post outlines the available options to follow defined integration patterns.

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Create Quick Data Entry Screens with Screen Flow

The typical “CRM flows” work ok, but there’s always opportunities to make them efficient.

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Easily Export Salesforce Data to Google Sheets

The typical way I quickly export data from Salesforce is to use Data Loader, or go to Dataloader.

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Visualise Any Object in a Calendar in Salesforce

Salesforce makes it super easy to view (almost) any data in a calendar.

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Check Page Performance in Salesforce

Here are two quick ways to manually (& reliably) track of Salesforce page performance.

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Find Index of Element in Salesforce List

A Salesforce list and map are super convenient ways of operating on a collection in Apex.

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Run SOQL with SFDX and Export Results to File

Running SOQL against salesforce orgs is quite easy with SFDX .

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4 Easy Ways to Export Data from Salesforce.com

Here are four easy ways for administrators and developers to export data from your salesforce.

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Developing in Salesforce.com (2021 Edition)

Salesforce.com development experience has improved leaps and bounds over the past five years, and continues to rapidly innovate and evolve.

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Should You Choose Salesforce.com in 2021?

Salesforce is a leader in low-code platforms today, but what does that mean for developers?

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Salesforce for Students

Hey, folks. Not too long ago I was involved in an arrangement to speak to students pursuing bachelor and master degrees in India.

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Getting Started with Salesforce.com and Git

A distributed version control system did not feel natural to me when I started on it a couple of years back.

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Using Apex - Create Task for an Opportunity

Let me be straight for you SFDC configuration vs. coding fanatics - I am in your group.

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3 Ways to Programmatically Create Tasks in Salesforce

When it comes to getting Salesforce to do what your business wants - there are options and more options.

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How to start with Lightning Experience?

Lightning Experience is going to be the all new Salesforce for your users.

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Enable Notes in Salesforce

I am a big fan of all tools that help me organize.

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Encrypt Data through Platform Encryption

If you have worked on projects subject to regulatory compliance requirements, you would understand how important is the security (and tracking) aspects of the application.

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Salesforce Lightning strikes (again!)

Salesforce Lightning strikes (again!)

Today was the beginning of the “all new Salesforce”. And, it wasn’t exaggerated - by and large.

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Browser compatibility in Salesforce

Browser compatibility in Salesforce

“Choice of browsers are a good thing for consumers” they say.

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Accessing External Data from Salesforce.com

You can do cool stuff using “External Objects” in force.com - namely, access the data from force.

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Force.com IDE Tag Generator Tool

The typical way to configure in salesforce/force.com is to point and click.

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Visibility to Child Level Records in Salesforce vs. Siebel

In typical CRM systems, attachments are typically the “children” of some parent entity.

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Working with Dates in SFDC

Working with Dates in SFDC

Date fields are present everywhere in any CRM application, and SFDC is not an exception.

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Multi-select Fields in Salesforce vs. Siebel MVF

Multi-select Fields in Salesforce vs. Siebel MVF

Multiple-value fields, or multi-select fields are typical in any CRM system.

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Scheduling meetings with a large group in Salesforce.com

Scheduling meetings with a large group in Salesforce.com

Let’s say you are running a webinar that expects at least 20 people across the globe who need to be present for the session, or you have scheduled meetings with a dozen people from the client executive team.

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Get your own subdomain for your Salesforce application

Salesforce URLs are confusing. The custom force.com applications are no different.

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Start building for salesforce1

Start building for salesforce1

For all you people wondering on where exactly to start with salesforce and salesforce1, this is just the guide that you were waiting for.

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Salesforce1 is out, here are top 5 reasons to start exploring it today

Salesforce1 is out, here are top 5 reasons to start exploring it today

It is fairly obvious that SFDC is doing many things right, and the latest announcements confirm they are on the right track.

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SFDC is a Platform

Or, rather force.com is. SFDC is not in focus today because it is a beautiful CRM product, but because it enables you to so much more using the force.

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