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Dear Evelyn: A Reflection on Five Years as a Salesforce Developer
Today’s post is going to be a little bit different. As of the morning of this post, I have been a Salesforce Developer for five years. I started my career on January 22nd, 2019. Normally, I would start out by talking about the road that got me here, but honestly? I’m tired of it. I…
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Platform Developer II: Electric Boogaloo, or, Third Time’s The Charm
2023 was a hot mess for me, as I’m finding out it was for many of you, as well. I only managed to get two certification attempts in in 2023 due to life circumstances, and I only made one pass: the Salesforce Associate certification, which I wrote about here. While it wasn’t a challenge for…
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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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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…
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Creating Dynamic Charts with Chart.JS – Part Two: Creating a Truly Dynamic Dashboard
User Story We have some information on our objects that we want to view in dynamic charts. These charts will update based on the object that is created by inputting a sentence into a Lightning Web Component. Background In the previous post, we started on our Lightning Web Component. We are going to use Chart.js…