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Creating Child Objects Using Apex REST API
User Story We have an external application that collects Account and Contact information. The application sends information in JSON format. Previously, our sales team input this information manually. Let’s automate the process! Background The Apex REST API allows us to expose our Apex classes and methods to external applications via REST architecture. The Salesforce REST…
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Displaying Captured Geolocation on a Google Map
Introduction Today I’ll be expanding on my previous post, Capturing Geolocation Using Lightning Components. If you don’t need to capture your device’s geolocation for a lead, that’s okay! This tutorial can be used on any object that has a geolocation field. User Story We are selling cookies door to door, and we want to keep track…
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Capturing Geolocation Using Lightning Components
User Story We are selling cookies door to door, and we want to keep track of the houses we’ve hit! We are going to capture the geolocation of each house on a lead object using our phones so that we know who in the neighborhood we talked to. Background Geolocation Custom Fields are available on…
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Setting Up a Chromebook for Salesforce Development
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Google or any other brand mentioned, and I am making no money for this post. If you would like to give me money for this (or any other!) post, you can go to my contact page and make a donation. So you’ve decided to buy a Chromebook. Me too!…
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Managing Basic Data Loads Using Dataloader CLI
User Story We want to complete a data load into a production environment to insert and update a list of contacts from a .CSV file that we received from our data team. We have to do this load every day, and we’re doing it in production, so we want to cut down on time and…
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Updating DatedConversionRate sObject using Workbench REST API Explorer
Hello, and welcome to Another Salesforce Blog! Here I will be posting solutions to problems that I couldn’t find an answer to in hopes of helping those who find themselves stuck when using the Salesforce platform. User Story It’s the end of the fiscal year, and we need to update our currency conversion rates to…
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Inserting DatedConversionRate sObject using Workbench REST API Explorer
User Story It’s the end of the fiscal year, and we need to update our currency conversion rates to the most recent rates. The rates are contained in a spreadsheet that was given to us by our financial team. We are unable to add a connected app due to business requirements. We must create new…
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