Take-Away: Don't create an app if you are not willing to become a service superstar. Ed Ralph, Bram Julsing or Tim Mathis, all of them built a successful AppExchange business over the last 2 years with many 5-Star reviews.I was curios: What are people saying about their products? While all reviews mention the great product, almost all have …
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I'm lazy, especially when I'm coding, but it always hurts eventually. I've a simple example requirement:Make a Call-Out to a backend Service and save the result in a record. What I did:I have a nice and tidy invocable method that makes the call-out and saves the result as a record.I added that method to a record …
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Multi-Org setups can be as varied as our clients. Recently I worked on an implementation that was different from any multi-org situation I've ever heard of.For legal and security reasons the local organization needed each to have a completely separated Salesforce Org.The central organization is not allowed to have any access to the unit's clear …
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Disclaimer: This is a thought rather than a fully fleshed-out concept. Any feedback and criticism is welcome! Our job is to be a trusted advisor for digital transformation projects using Salesforce.This means looking at the product, the customer, the processes, and the solution neutrally. But what happens if we love the product, the customer, the …
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I've been working with non-Salesforce tech people on Salesforce projects lately. The one feature that blows them away is Flows + Invocable Methods. That, my experience with B2B Commerce LE and the videos on SOLID principles got me thinking:What if I think in terms of flexible modules instead of complex code? The idea is to …
I had to spend way more time than I'm happy to fix an issue with my Aura component that loads a VFP in an iFrame in Communities. Situation:I have a VFP (Renderas=PDF) embedded as an iFrame in an Aura component embedded in Communities.While this worked fine for all existing customers, one customer ran into an …
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12 months ago I became CTA, it was the most thrilling experience in my life so far. Little did I know that the more exciting thing was about to happen afterward. It all started innocently with me publishing a few cheat sheets but quickly escalated into something like an (amazing) full-time job.Soon enough I was …
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This is a small set of tools that I think we should have always at the back of our heads when designing enterprise-scale architecture.What are your magic tools? 1) ESB & ETL2) FormAssembly3) OwnBackup / Odaseva4) Chargent5) X-Files Pro6) Conga + DocuSign7) Quip & Slack8) Marketing Cloud9) Okta / Ping10) Salesforce Voice11) Git + Provar …
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Working on my bundle-functionality for the CPQ app I need to get Info about three related objects to build my bundle: Product2, PricebookEntry and Configured_Product__c. I could achieve that using 2-3 Queries and a bunch of Loops and Maps. I'm a huge fan of avoiding maps by using subqueries instead. Advantages of subqueries:1) Build in …
We all have to make decisions every day, some big, some small. To help me get to the right decision, I try to follow a few simple principles.I'm in no way perfect and following these principles all the time. I try to remember and follow them as often as possible.Maybe some of you would like …
