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How do I solve this kind of circular dependencies?

In our project, we are trying to divide the different functionalities into separate unlocked packages. While trying to divide the metadata into different packages we've encountered this case of ...
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How to proper handle governor limits inside a platform event handler?

In a platform event trigger handler that needs to insert a list of SObjects that comes from the event payload. We can do a wrapper try catch to protect of all errors and log in a custom object, we can ...
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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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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 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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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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Can flow commit changes prior to invoking a method?

I'm trying to get some advanced architecture setup for my company, but I'm running into an issue with my design; looking for help. I'm attempting to execute an API call from Flow, but I'm getting the ...
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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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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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Salesforce file storage off loading to AWS S3 to save file storage space in Salesforce

Background : 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dealing with auto-batching of triggers

I've recently been trying to come to terms with the oddities of the auto-"batching" of triggers. What I'm referring to is how when dealing with more than 200 records in a trigger execution, ...
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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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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Architecture

I have tried searching for an SFMC architecture diagram to understand how to links and interacts withe the normal SFDC platform. All I could find is this: Security, Privacy and Architecture of the ...
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Lightning Framework vs Standard Client Side Frameworks (i.e. React) // Which to chose when, and why?

Disclaimer 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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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 ...