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How to use Salesforce’s Apex getPopulatedFieldsAsMap

August 8, 2024Brian ClineSalesforceDynamic Apex, Salesforce Apex

The getPopulatedFieldsAsMap method, introduced in recent Salesforce updates, is a powerful addition for dealing with dynamic apex or SObject instances. This method enables us developers to easily retrieve a map of all fields in an SObject that have been populated, meaning fields that have been set or contain a non-null value. What is getPopulatedFieldsAsMap? The…

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Publishing Platform Events from Apex

March 7, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceSalesforce, salesforce integration, Salesforce Platform Events

Triggering Platform events from within Salesforce is pretty easy.

Learn how in this post.

Building a Custom UI With Lightning Web Components (LWC)

February 28, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceLWC, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

Creating a UI that is intuitive and user-friendly can be challenging and time-consuming.

In this blog post, we will walk through the process of building a custom UI with LWC.

Using Data – Attributes in Lightning Web Component (LWC)

February 21, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceLWC, Salesforce Lightning

In Lightning Web Components (LWC), data can be defined and used in components through attributes.

This blog post explains how to use attributes to pass data.

An Introduction to Salesforce Platform Events

February 14, 2023Brian Cline2 CommentsProgramming, SalesforceSalesforce, Salesforce Platform Events, software architecture

Salesforce Platform Events are an event-driven architecture provided by the Salesforce platform.

In this guide we look at what, why, and when.

Salesforce for Newcomers: Orgs, Sandboxes, Trust and Security

January 31, 2023Brian ClineSalesforceLearning Salesforce, Salesforce for Newbies

As a newcomer to Salesforce, you will quickly come across several important terms that are fundamental to understanding how Salesforce works. These terms are Org, Sandbox, Trust, and Security. In this article, we will explain each of these terms in detail and how they fit into the overall Salesforce ecosystem.

Lightning Tips for Visualforce Developers

January 24, 2023Brian ClineSalesforceSalesforce, Salesforce Lightning

Switching from Visualforce to using Lightning is not an easy transition as there’s quite a few changes that Salesforce Developers will need to get used to.

Lightning changes a lot of the way that Salesforce works.

13 Tips for Developing Lightning Web Components

January 10, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

In this blog article, you will learn 13 tips for developing maintainable and performant Lightning Web Components.

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How to use Lightning Web Components in Visualforce

January 3, 2023Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Best Practices, visualforce

You can add lightning web components to existing Visualforce pages. In this blog post, you will learn how to use Lightning Web Components in Visualforce and with Apex.

25 Common Salesforce Lightning Web Component Interview Questions

December 27, 2022Brian ClineSalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

During Salesforce Developer interviews, it’s common to be asked quite a few different questions so a company can guage your knowledge and at what level you are.

How Lightning Web Components Communicate

December 20, 2022Brian ClineSalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

Complex applications are made up of many different components that need to work together and share data. Components must be able to communicate with one another.

There are several ways that LWC components can communicate with each other.

Using Lightning Web Components inside Aura Components

December 13, 2022Brian ClineSalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce

One question that often comes up is whether LWC and Aura Components can be used together in the same application.

The answer is yes, they can be used together, but there are some important considerations to keep in mind.

Introduction to Salesforce Lightning Web Components

December 6, 2022Brian Cline1 CommentProgramming, SalesforceLightning Web Components, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning

Salesforce developed Lightning Web Components after Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Components (Aura).

Aura missed the mark, so Salesforce went back to the drawing board…

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Lightning Web Components vs Lightning components

November 29, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceLightning Components, Lightning Web Components

Lightning Web Components and Lightning components are great tools for creating user interfaces for Salesforce platform apps.

Using RegEx in Salesforce Apex

September 20, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceRegEx, Salesforce

Regular expressions, also known as RegEx, are a powerful tool that can be used to search, match, and manipulate strings in various programming languages.

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Are Salesforce Lightning Components (Aura) dead?

August 9, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceAura, Lightning Components, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Lightning

No! Salesforce Lightning Components (Aura Components) are likely to live on for quite a few years. I do think that the Lightning Web Component will eventually lead to the Lightning Component falling out of use.

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Should I still be building Lightning Components?

August 2, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceAura, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Best Practices, Salesforce Lightning

There is no requirement right now to completely rebuild Aura components because Aura and Lightning Web Components can work together. They are completely interoperable.

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What is the difference Between enterprise WSDL and partner WSDL in Salesforce?

July 3, 2022Brian Cline1 CommentProgramming, Salesforceapi, Salesforce

When connecting to the Salesforce SOAP API, there’s two different WSDL options: the Enterprise WSDL and the Partner WSDL.

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Creating a Custom Salesforce REST API Endpoint

July 2, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, Salesforceapi, rest api, restful api, Salesforce, Salesforce API

Apex classes and methods can be exposed to external applications as REST based endpoints.

This means that there’s a very easy way to have an external application make a direct call into Salesforce to do a specific action.

Should Salesforce architects know how to code?

May 15, 2022Brian ClineProgramming, SalesforceSalesforce, Salesforce Best Practices, software architecture

Salesforce Architects whether they be Solution Architects, Technical Architects or some other type of Architect should have at least a good working knowledge of how to code.

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