Questions tagged [architecture]
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Connecting Salesforce with on premise systems
What are the necessary steps to connect Salesforce to on premise systems?
For example, do we need a middleware such as Enterprise Service Bus, Web Application Firewall, something else?
What are the ...
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Enterprise Architecture, Domain layer - handling multiple records
I'm developing a project using fflib's Enterprise Architecture patterns, based on their example app (https://github.com/apex-enterprise-patterns/fflib-apex-common-samplecode). I am a bit confused ...
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Declarative solutions vs APEX programming - recommended way to choose the right tool
Salesforce recommends to use firstly declarative solutions over the programmic ones.
But if there is something it cannot be done declaratively, then there is need to switch/use the programmic way.
But ...
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Einstein Activity Capture implementation - what sandboxes to use?
To integrate Salesforce and Gmail for about 2000 users, I am implementing Einstein Activity Capture in an existing org (brownfield) which has already run for a few years. I am hesitant to roll it out ...
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Are Aura Components, Lightning Web Components and Visualforce pages based on MVC architecture paradigm?
This may sound at first sight as a question which has been answered many times, but it has always been related to a specific thing and I've heard people have different opinions on this topic. Also, I ...
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How are folks using the EventLogFile records?
This is a very general question but my company is just looking into ways to start using the Lightning Interaction Event data (EventLogFile) to establish a better insight into what users are ...
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Does early adoption of adding "Aura local ID's" to element attributes make for more Automation friendly, Lightning components?
My company is migrating to Salesforce and the automation team wants the ability to use Java Selenium baked in. Will the system-wide inclusion of Aura Local IDs (as related to Component ID's Link) ...
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Managing the Domain Layer
Apologies in advance if this question is too opinion based.
I am trying to lead us to a more defined separation of concerns in our Salesforce development. Currently, it is not much of a consideration ...
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Total API Request Allocations Exceeded During Peak Days
The problem:
I find the Salesforce Documentation on Total API Request Allocations topic a little bit contradictory.
If your org reaches or exceeds its daily API request limit, Salesforce still allows ...
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What is the purpose of Concurrent API limit?
As per the Salesforce Documentation, the Concurrent API limit is a limit for concurrent inbound requests (calls) with a duration of 20 seconds or longer and it differs based on the org type:
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Orders and inventories management in Sales Cloud
Working with orders and inventories in Salesforce. If 3 transactions are created at the same time and only 2 inventory exists. The current design will make the inventory set to 1 where the inventory ...
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How to update accounts & contacts from public forms without destroying existing data
We have Form Assembly forms publicly available on the internet which are working well. Within these forms, we collect a lot of data about our clients (350+fields). We want to bring that data into ...
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SalesForce Workbench Architecture
We are performing a security review of the WorkBench tool before allowing external consultants access to our Salesforce organization for viewing the structure and relationships to develop reports.
I ...
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Are declarative tools built to scale?
In a context of a company that aim to expand its activities, is it a good idea to build an architecture by including declarative tools such as processes and flows?
Are declarative tools used in large ...
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Sorting ContentVersion based on Related objects like Account, Contact
I want to build a photo gallery where I can sort Images based on accounts, contacts or any other object. But not able to do so due to Data model of ContentVersion/documents.
I can't sort ...
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How to model multiple relations between the same objects in salesforce
I'm trying to create ERD diagrams according to the salesforce guidelines.
I'm wondering how to tackle objects that have multiple relationships with each other. For example contact and account. Contact ...
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Space Callouts in queueable apex in time
I have a requirement where I need to send a custom object to an external system. The records are usually created in bulk so I have a queueable apex class called from a trigger that loops through the ...
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Best Practices - Changing Standard Object names
I'm a SF architect for my company and set standards and conventions for my admin and development team. Our company is a large enterprise that is made up of a number of acquistions, close to 20 in ...
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Owner Data Skew Prevention for smaller orgs
We have a small org with ~50 users in the B2C space. Their business model includes importing large lists of records (~500 per day) and working on them.
We can minimize lookup skew by not using lookup ...
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Salesforce file storage off loading to AWS S3 to save file storage space in Salesforce
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Our users are uploading large contract files to account and we use Email2Case for case management, customer respond with a lot of documents. This is eating up our file storage limit in ...
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Design Considerations - When to use a custom object vs standard object
I am creating a salesforce unlocked package that I want to get out on the app exchange. The package is for a company that wants to insert and update records with product usage data.
They want to send ...
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Do additional Permission Sets reduce Salesforce Performance?
I have hundreds of different functionalities setup in Salesforce each with its own Permissions Set for various privleges (FLS, Class access etc), given to various roles across the business.
I wish to ...
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Why the Service layer is usually implemented with Static methods?
After reading some books about the Service Layer I realized all the methods implemented in this layer are static. What's the reason to do that?
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/...
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FFLib Selectors with SOQL For Loops
I'm considering implementation of FFLib, or at least parts of it, throughout our enterprise. Right now I'm focusing on the Selector and Query classes to consolidate our SOQL into a Selector Layer. I'm ...
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config vs code for matching/duplicate checking
If I'm inserting records, it's really easy to query to see if another record already exists with the same values in a before trigger. Code like this has worked for me:
private static Map<String, ...
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Sending 'Back-in-Stock' triggered emails only to first 'x' group of people for each product
We have “Notify me” button on our website to alert users when the stock is back.
When the stock is back, the API call happens from external system to Marketing Cloud to send triggered emails (Email ...
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Scaling shared fields across objects
Sorry if this is too vague/general of a question.
The org I'm working in has a relationship between its objects of:
Custom Object (lookup) -> Lead
Custom Object (lookup) -> Account
The data flow ...
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Pattern to integrate million record if BULK option not available
This is in reference to Integration with a System having millions of records.
However, due to certain limitation we do not want BULK API needs to be implemented . Although there are other options like ...
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Need Architecture options for pulling data from Salesforce, to retrieve datasets
My perspective is traditional RDBMS (Oracle), and retrieving data with a reporting tool like Business Objects or straight SQL Nothing too fancy, just dump to Excel. But JOINing a lotta tables.
We're ...
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Migrate from Package base development to Org base development style
Please help me if you have any knowledge regarding the 2 development models right now that Salesforce offered : Org base development model and package development model.
Right now 2 of our developers ...
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Heroku & Salesforce - Database question for multiple environments [closed]
Along with our production org, we have 3 full sync sandboxes, Mule APIs and Heroku.
We are in the process of setting up an app, which is really just going to hold a postgreSQL database that is written ...
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Best practice: Architecture for accounts with many locations 10k+
I'm facing an architectural design where a company could have more than 10k locations, and I would like to save the location data, according to this link it's a good practice to use a hierarchical ...
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Architecture quest - what is the efficient way to track an opportunity amount being used and reallocate the unused balance [closed]
To all the sf experts out here, trying yo get your inputs for a use case that i’m trying to incorporate. Use case: We have a currency field called “Amount Owed” on opportunity which holds an $ value. ...
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Handling a combination of async callouts, schedulable jobs, and queueable jobs
The current requirements for my system is as follows:
When a certain change is saved on the Account object, I need to create an Order object and make a callout to Service A.
Service A finishes ...
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LWC Folder Structure: Import AND render components from other lwc directories [duplicate]
Trying to reorganize folder structure as all components are currently under 1 lwc folder. Came across this post LWC Folder Structure
It answers the first problem of overcrowding unrelated components ...
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Data Model Architecture - More Fields or New Object
I am reassessing an existing data model in use in my org and looking to ensure it's following best practices.
The custom object is called a ticket. If the ticket record meets certain criteria, it is ...
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Does Lookup Skew affect only master-detail relationships or also lookup ones?
I've been encountering and reading a lot about data skew issues, particularly lookup skew, and I've noticed that most information I've found doesn't explicitly indicate whether this affects master-...
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Using Salesforce as Single Source of Truth [closed]
From a software architecture perspective, are there major issues with using Salesforce as an application's single source of truth (as opposed to a traditional relational database like Postgres)?
It ...
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Is it possible to check the time taken by a Salesforce Record to load when we we view/open the record?
Can i find the time taken by my record page to load in Salesforce Dev Console.
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Force.com Architecture Whitepaper
Are there any other technical resources besides this whitepaper that describes how things work under the hood at SFDC?
The Force.com Multitenant Architecture
PDF version
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Is having multiple triggers per object still a bad thing, considering a trigger per application?
I started working with Salesforce in 2015, and since then I've been told by mentors and the Salesforce community on the Internet that having multiple triggers for a single object is bad practice, ...
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lwc dataservice architecture best practices
While developing lwc components and lightning apps I always run into this design dilemma: When I have two children components that uses the same set of source data but in different forms what is the ...
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Updating Person Accounts when new campaign is created [closed]
I am not sure what the best way to do this is but I am trying to update a field to find out when a person account has entered a campaign for the first time. We are using campaigns that are coming over ...
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generate unique number for each record
I need to generate a unique 7 digit number for each contact record. This generated number is a "Customer Id" that makes it easy for customers to reference their account.
I have two solutions, but I ...
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Enterprise Layers and Naming Conventions
I have been thinking and reading about Apex Enterprise patterns and how I can make my own code more reusable.
https://andyinthecloud.com/author/andrewmarkfawcett/
This got me thinking about naming ...
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Testing an approval process - should I create metadata just to test?
I have an Apex test that is testing if a record is in an approval process.
To test, I have to submit a record for approval - but there is no guarantee that there will be an approval process set up in ...
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Duplicate contacts in Multi-Org architecture
In a Multi-Org scenario in Marketing Cloud when 'All contacts' and 'All subscribers' are shared between all the BUs, is it possible that different contacts from different Orgs have the same ContactID? ...
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What is the best way to relate product to Account?
Here is the use case. We have a bunch of subscription products that we sell. There is relatively no sales process involved. They come in sign up for the product and they are converted into accounts.
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Multi-Org clarification
I am a little confused about the multi-org architecture. Two quick questions that I would like to be clarified:
Is the All Contact list shared with all of the Business Units or are separated (even if ...
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Lightning Framework vs Standard Client Side Frameworks (i.e. React) // Which to chose when, and why?
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Keep it objective! This one can get a little opinionated, please try to keep your answer specific to the facts a developer should be considering when choosing between two viable options ...
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