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Salesforce LinkedIn Strategies Packet
Today, a few days shy of the 4th anniversary of Another Salesforce Blog (🥳) I’m proud to announce that I am offering a Salesforce LinkedIn Strategies Packet for sale. At 25 pages of valuable content, this packet goes over each of the 21 sections you can have on your LinkedIn, and how to maximize your…
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Slow Your Roll: taking your time with your #JourneyToCTA is GOOD, actually.
Today, I’d like to talk about something I’ve been working on the last few months (well, really, years): my #JourneyToCTA. According to Salesforce Ben, at least as of the 2020 writing of the Certified Technical Architect Certification Guide & Tips, there are roughly 300+ Salesforce Certified Technical Architects in the WORLD. There’s a few dozen…
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Create an Encryption Utility Class
User Story We want to mask our data with an AES encryption key, and don’t want to fork out cash for the Salesforce Data Masking package. For example, we are speaking at Forcelandia on July 12th and 13th, 2023, and want to mask some phone numbers in our API project dev org. 😉 Background The…
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Utilizing the Tooling API to Query Deployment Information
User Story Today we are going to cover a worst case scenario. Something was deployed to Production that shouldn’t have been, but we don’t know which deployment holds the answer. The UI for deployments is clunky and doesn’t allow us to see who deployed what without clicking into the individual deployment. This is a hassle,…
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Data Architect Exam Overview
This week, I hit a major career milestone: I passed my first Salesforce architect exam! I started the year off right by taking the Data Architect exam last Wednesday. I have been preparing to take this exam for about six months on and off (much like my late writeup on Javascript Developer I, life happened…
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Thinking of changing careers into Salesforce? Read this!
Today, we’ll be talking about how to make the switch into Salesforce development from a service role. If you’re reading this, you probably already know this, but my name is Evelyn, and I’m a software developer. I’ve been working as a software developer for just about three years now. I started my first programming job…
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Regular Expression to Escape SOQL/SOSL Inputs
User Story We want to create a table with search, sort, and pagination functionality. Over the course of the next several posts, we are going to look at two possible ways to achieve this, with either server-side or client-side functionality. We will start with the basics of searching: writing our queries. If you would like…
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Width-Aware Collapsible Table
User Story We want to create a lightning__RecordPage component that displays a table that looks different whether it is in a main region or a sidebar, which means that, by default, the component is responsive and mobile friendly. For this example, we will be using the relationship between the Account and Contact objects in Salesforce…
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Querying Distinct Values in SOQL: Approval Process Work Items
User Story We want to get a list of approval processes that have work items that are dependent on a user that is no longer active, and we want to do it without using Apex. Background There is no DISTINCT function in SOQL, so we’re going to have to do some Aggregate Query magic. Solution…