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Tag: salesforce metadata

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…

June 8, 2023
Salesforce Associate Exam Overview, or, Why Did This Application Architect Take An Entry Level Exam?

Today, I want to discuss a topic that has caused quite a stir in the broader Salesforce community: the new Salesforce Associate Certification.

April 29, 2023
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,…

May 3, 2022
Using An XSLT File to Transform XML for ANT

User Story We have a new field on the Account object, and we want to prevent users from being able to edit the Account object while we deploy the new field. To do this, we will be using an ANT script to make the Account object Read Only for all profiles and permission sets, and…

February 7, 2020
Mass Updating Profile Object Permissions Via ANT Migration Tool

User Story We have a new object in our organization. We must update our existing profiles to have appropriate permission sets for the object. Some profiles will have Read access, others will have Edit access. We want to automate this because we have dozens of profiles, and we have to make this change in a…

October 12, 2019
Getting Started With ANT: Retrieving Metadata via ANT Migration Tool for Salesforce

User Story We want to automate parts of our deployments using Salesforce’s Metadata API. Background Per Salesforce, the ANT Migration Tool is a “command-line utility for moving metadata between a local directory and a Salesforce org.” Using ANT, repetitive deployment tasks can be automated using Salesforce’s Metadata API. This tutorial assumes that you have the…

October 8, 2019