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In this post we will see how Google authentication can be enabled in Salesforce using OpenID connect. We can enable Google authentication in Salesforce with these simple steps - Get Google credentials for authenticating users through your app Setup Google as an auth provider in your salesforce org 1.

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.

Apex logs are full of “stuff”. While that generally may be a good thing, getting around to the problem at hand may be a tad bothersome. I don’t quite spending a lot of time debugging, but debug statements + log filters in Developer Console have been my go-to tools like any good developer.

In this post we will see how Salesforce can be used as an authentication ( + authorisation) provider with OpenID connect. But first, what exactly is OpenID connect anyway? In simple words - it is a way to perform authentication and (basic) authorisation from a trusted server using OAuth 2.

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

The typical “CRM flows” work ok, but there’s always opportunities to make them efficient.Consider the below simple “new customer onboard” work flow - Create account (and contact) information Capture a case for an installation service Normally, this would mean -

The typical way I quickly export data from Salesforce is to use Data Loader, or go to Dataloader.io. But, there’s also this alternative that is super useful and free. Login to your Google Sheets.

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 (⚙) 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.

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.

Here are two quick ways to manually (& reliably) track of Salesforce page performance. Suffix eptVisible Flag #Navigate to any Salesforce application URL like you always do, but with a suffix - ?