Salesforce’s Spring 15 release is going to include mapping and geolocation for address fields. I believe, location based features started appearing before I started using Salesforce. Even more exciting, is that visualforce will include a map component. The mapping component appears to be using Google Maps, but this could probably change. The new mapping component…
One of the hands on training sessions I attended was “Write Apex Tests Using Best Practices” which really proved to me that a lot of what I believed and was doing were right. Without further ado, here’s my notes: Goals for tests Auomated methods that verify application integrity Future Proof Proactively Identify Problems before they…
Why use patterns: patterns help us be more efficient patterns describe reusable solutions to common problems Bulk Processing Caching create triggers w/ ability to process hundreds of lookups challenge: queries, DML, memory collect all keys from trigger object in Set Object Query once using SOQL in clause with key set cache results in map object…
I was really blessed to be able to attend Dreamforce and learn even more about Salesforce. While attending there, I attended a lot of the different keynotes and saw a lot of the new exciting features in action. Dreamforce Sessions At Dreamforce there was dozens of interesting sounding sessions. There were a few different ones…
In Salesforce, the first three characters of a record Id are the “Object Id Prefix”.
The first three digits of an Id is an identifier to the type of entity that the object is. It doesn’t matter if the Id is a 15 digit or 18 digit id. SObject ID Prefix Account 001 Case 500 Contact 003 Lead 00Q Opportunity 006 Task 00T
I recently found out about Workbench for Salesforce at Dreamforce. Workbench is a web based set of tools that’s designed for Salesforce Administrators and developers to interact with Salesforce.com using the Force.com APIs. Using Workbench it’s pretty easy to view data, do data loading, perform SOQL queries or SOSL searches, etc. After logging in successfully…
Checking if a list is null and has no results is pretty easy. The best way to do this is to use the ISNULL operator and and to check if the results has a size that isn’t 0.
When we create Visualforce pages in Salesforce we have a few different ways that we can architect the code that will do any business logic that we need.
