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.
Should Salesforce architects know how to code?
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Best Practices for Documenting Your Salesforce Org
Documenting a Salesforce Org is really challenging because it can be complex especially when working across many different branches or divisions. Maintaining and keeping the documentation in sync is also really difficult if there isn’t significant executive sponsorship.
Connecting to the Salesforce Analytics APIs through Node.js
In this blog article, we’ll be focused in on the Analytics API because it’s primarily used for reporting and dashboards.
Connecting to the Salesforce APIs through Node.js
There are a number of different JavaScript modules or libraries that are available on npm to connect to the different REST based Salesforce APIs.
In this post, I show my favourite library.
Why do we still need Visualforce and Apex?
Where possible we should really be trying to use Lightning Web Components over Visualforce. The main reason we should prioritize Lightning Web Components over Visualforce is because of a lot of the out-of-the-box benefits: more modern, more responsive, and frankly, Visualforce will at some point be deprecated.
Visualforce is still useful though, here are some good situations to consider still using it:
- Building Wizards (multi-step processes)
- Needing to control the flow through an application.
- Org isn’t using Lightning yet (this should be really rare in 2021)
Apex isn’t going anywhere. For the most part, Lightning Web Components will need to call Apex code if you are doing anything really custom. The Lighning Data Service is pretty good, but it’s not going to work in every circumstance.
Wrapping it Up
Visualforce is slowly disappearing; there are very few situations that mean we should start new pages or Visualforce components with it.
Apex isn’t going anywhere.
How to Avoid Governor Limits in Salesforce Apex
Most governor limit errors are a result of poorly understanding how Salesforce works, so they can be prevented by designing a better architecture and by taking advantage of the platform. For example, too many SOQL queries can be avoided by writing bulk-friendly code or using caching.
Everything you need to know about Schedulable Batch Apex
Batch Apex has some incredible advantages over regular apex. The execution time of batch apex can be much longer and a lot more records can be processed. Scheduling Batch Apex has even more benefits than batch apex: it can do large jobs regularly.
Analyzing Salesforce Field Usage
Over time, Salesforce orgs get more and more complicated especially when a consultant, admin or developer leaves the organization with their knowledge of the system.
How to Process Thousands Of Records on Salesforce
On Salesforce, if you want to process thousands of records the only way to truly achieve it is through asynchronous apex.
In this blog post, we cover the various ways of doing Asynchronous Apex.
Understanding With Sharing and Without Sharing In Salesforce
Security in Salesforce and on the Force.com platform can be really hard to understand. In this blog post, we’re going to have a look at the “With Sharing” and “Without Sharing” Apex keywords.
Fetching All Fields in Salesforce – Spring 2021 Edition
In Salesforce, the Standard Query Language (SQL) didn’t have a great way of doing SELECT * or select all fields but that changed in Spring 2021.
SOQL IN Operator in Salesforce
When writing SOQL queries we can use the IN operator or the = operator as long as we are using variables instead of hardcoded strings. This works because the result will be identical.
Enforcing Object Level and Field Level Permissions in Apex
This past year, Salesforce has finally released some security enhancements that can make our lives easier as developers.
There’s two enhancements that can really improve our code and reduce the use of the Schema.sObjectType methods.
Salesforce Apex Bulkification In 3 Easy Steps
As you may recall, in Salesforce, there are some fairly stringent governor limits that can cause things to unexpectedly fail.
In this blog post, you will learn three easy steps to bulkify any method in Apex.
Using Salesforce Outbound Messages for Integrations
An outbound message sends information in XML format using SOAP to a specific URL endpoint. The information contains the fields specified when the outbound message is created.
How to Delete Classes and Triggers from Salesforce
It’s not possible to modify Apex code directly in production so doing deletes can be really difficult. In production, Apex classes and triggers cannot be deleted declaratively so we need to go through a special deployment process.
Common Salesforce Integration Patterns
Understanding what Salesforce Integration Pattern to use is vital to a successful Salesforce implementation. Choosing the wrong pattern can result in a really weak architecture that fails regularly, or costs a lot.
Salesforce Integration – Planning & Documentation
The first step for a successful integration is understanding the goals, planning and documenting the current processes. The most important thing is to understand the stakeholders and what they need to do with the data.
Common Reasons Salesforce Integrations Fail
Moving data between systems consistently through an integration can be difficult especially given all of the limits that Salesforce throws at us!
The purpose of this blog post is talk about all of the common reasons that a Salesforce integration could fail.
Reasons To Integrate Salesforce
When we integrate something we are connecting two applications or systems together so they can talk to each other and share data.
There’s a lot of business benefits to integrating Salesforce with other systems whether it be your enterprise resource planning system (ERP), your accounting software (Quickbooks, Simply Accounting, etc), or even your case management system.