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I am Prashanth Krishnamurthy, a CRM technology enthusiast, and I implement CRM and lead a Salesforce practice for a living.

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Visualise Any Object in a Calendar in Salesforce

·1 min
Salesforce makes it super easy to view (almost) any data in a calendar. All you have to do is a few steps - Click on App launcher, search for Calendar and select it In the calendar view, look out for My Calendars towards the bottom, right-hand side of the screen Click on the cog (âš™) icon, click New Calendar Select the object that you need Select fields for calendar and values to display I chose Contact and Last Viewed Date to view the last names of contacts I have connected with this week / today.

Capture Apex Errors in Salesforce Objects

·3 mins
What do you do if you want to capture exceptions in Apex? Since Apex is a Java-like language, your gut instinct will be to do something like this - Id inAcctId = '0011J00001mZTMsQAO'; try { Integer someNum = 1; if (someNum == 1) { throw new IllegalArgumentException('I err ' + Datetime.

Create a Simple Calculator using LWC

·3 mins
Let us create a simple calculator app with Lightning Web Component (LWC) in Salesforce. Pre-requisites to get started - Create your org if you don’t already have one - we don’t need to check-in any code Create a new project in VSCode in VSCode and connect to your org (or, open an existing project) Hit Ctrl+Shift+p > enter sfdx: Create a new Lightning Web Component.