Questions tagged [bestpractice]
Referring to the use of recognized community and platform best practices. May relate to all areas of lifecycle and all development and administration activities.
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Improving Lightning Performance - What does SFDC consider “Salesforce organization configuration issues”?
Per the following SFDC article, Salesforce indicates four main reasons for Lightning Performance Issues and page load time:
Geographical
Device
Browser
Salesforce organization configuration issues
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Is my after insert trigger efficient and safe to port to production?
Recently I created an after insert trigger to update a field in my sponsorship object. it works so far in sandbox and has passed the unit test that I have created and has 100% code coverage. here is ...
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Do not show standard Site pages in a Salesforce lightning community
We have set up a lightning community. When I access it at https://mycommunity.cs1.force.com/s/login, I see an Experience (Community) Builder lightning login page. But when I try something like this (...
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No SOQL in for loop
Re-factoring this below code to avoid SOQL in for loop. In this case below soql is for different object than the object passed in param. The solution I am trying needs for loop inside for loop, wonder ...
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Delete Salesforce Standard force.com pages and classes
We are in the process of cleaning up our code (updating to latest versions, removing unnecessary code....) and we found many force.com standard pages and classes that we are not using. Can any one ...
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When do we really need try/catch?
I know about 'always in DML operations'. But for what? What do we get? The code will crush anyway, and we can find the error in logs even without this construction. What the main point of try/catch? ...
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Validation Rule on Lead Conversion - Best Practice
I have a Validation Rule on the Lead Object, to prevent the users from converting a Lead without filling in certain fields. The Validation works, but I want now to only requests those fields, if the ...
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Best Practice deserialize a JSON to avoid heap size limit
I'm sending an HTTP request to get a JSON of Students. The JSON is a complex JSON with arrays and its break into 3 objects in Salesforce.
I'm using a class (JSON2APEX) to deserialize the JSON.
Some ...
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How to query multiple object records without using soql within a for loop
I have a
Map<String, String> objectNameWithQueryString;
objectNameWithQueryString consists of 'ObjectAPIName' as the key and a 'soql query string as the value'.
My requirement is to perform ...
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Packaged Case Trigger fails for users without license
My managed package contains a trigger for Cases. When users have no license an Apex batch class called from that trigger fails with
First error: Insufficient user privileges
My initial assumption ...
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user training enviroment
We're in the process of researching how to setup a user training environment. We're currently doing user training in the production org, and want to get a away from that. We've got over 2,500 users so ...
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Service Cloud Automation
I have been having real trouble managing Automation in my org. I am the sole admin, with 20 users, around 5-10 are dedicated users managing around 3000 cases per month. Almost all come from Email To ...
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What is the correct way to return validation errors from a lightning Apex controller?
What is the correct approach to return validation errors from lightning controller?
Suppose we have an aura method that takes some parameters. We need to validate these parameters in order to make ...
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Should trigger handlers be static or non-static?
For a generic trigger, are there circumstances where one of the following patterns is better than the other?
trigger ObjectTrigger on Object (after event) {
ObjectTriggerHandler oth = new ...
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Benefit of actually excluding records with logic directly in Trigger vs. TriggerHandler
Is there any performance benefit of excluding records in logic directly in the trigger to avoid instantiating another class (TriggerHandler) that would essentially do the same thing? I know best ...
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LWC best Practice to call parent and child component
My question is bit difficult to explain but still I tried my best to explain it in the below playground
Playground
In my LWC project I have 3 step process and I divided it into 3 lwc pages
parent
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Clean code way to process a list of objects
Let’s say you have a list of Accounts and you want to populate their birthday with the same date. However, you also want this method to be reusable.
What is the best way to do this in APEX?
So far ...
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How to avoid hardcoding of page name in lightning:navigation?
I need to generate a page URL and use it a link to my page. Users can click on that link and go to the page.
controller
getPageUrl: function (component) {
const navService = component.find(...
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Normalizing Boolean values in LWC
Looking at LWC e-bikes sample gallery, I found these comments in code regaring normalizing values. Can someone refer to what they have meant or how to do this normalization using best practices?
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LWC Event Best Practices Question
I'm confused about what documentation says about event best practices.
CustomEvent.detail
To communicate data to elements in the same shadow tree, don’t add
myProperty into event.detail. The ...
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LWC & Aura Coding Standards
I want to ask if somewhere I can find best practices how to develop in LWC and Aura? Salesforce has prepare that kind of document for Apex:
https://developer.salesforce.com/page/...
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Identifying Inactive Contacts
My question is not about how to deal with inactive contacts, but it is about how to identify inactive contacts.
Our Org has 300k Contacts, about 50% of these are obsolete.
I have created a check ...
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Best practice for controlling record access based on User's Country
The requirement: All Users in South Africa should only be able to edit Accounts (parent) where Country = "South Africa". They should also be able to edit all Projects (child) and Project Roles (...
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Best Practice: dependency on data model names [closed]
BACKGROUND
I need to display some data from another system on a lightning component. Let's say I get a JSON string from the external system as following:
{
"initialStatus": "Active",
"name": "...
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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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Whitelisting Salesforce IP In External Systems
I want to integrate with an external system.
They need to whitelist my IP for permission to use their services.
I looked at this post: https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000321501&type=1&...
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Is usage of console.log/console.error in production code considered as bad/good practice?
Well I've seen a lot of code examples provided by Salesforce. In one blog post - Error Handling Best Practices for Lightning and Apex - they are using console.error to report errors on ui. They also ...
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with and without sharing with innerclass
I'm working on a project that needs to change a lot of data that the user shouldn't see in the backoffice. So I'm wondering if I should put my entire class "without sharing".
For now I'm creating a "...
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Best practice for a query inside a batch and Mapping
I'm working on a batch which getting a params from another batch in the finish method.
The Params are :
A Map - Map<Sobject,Set<String>>
A Set - Set<String>
I lost the values of ...
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Batch - Sending data from one batch to another
I having a little issue to understand the concept of passing params via batches.
I have two batches which I would like to send data between them.
Batch A creates a Map<sObject,Set<String>&...
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Get component value directly
This is a general question aimed at finding best approach to do some task. Now I interested in how should I get values from inputs in lightning components. Let's say I have a component:
Example.cmp
&...
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How should I schedule multiple job of the same class?
I need to have a job that runs every 15 minutes. I checked out the documentation for Apex Scheduler and I came up with two solutions:
1-st:
ScheduledJob job = new ScheduledJob();
System.schedule('...
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Bulk Job Status - Failed vs Not Processed?
What are the use cases for setting a Bulk (version 1) job to a status of Failed vs Not Processed?
Salesforce documentation gives the same description for both
The batch failed to process the full ...
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Most efficient way to switch on SObjectType?
It is a bit odd we can't evaluate a switch statement directly on SObjectType, so I am trying to determine conclusively which workaround is the most efficient.
Just to verify, I tried to compile this ...
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Enterprise Patterns for Consuming non-trivial REST services in Apex [closed]
Communication from Apex with huge REST Apis feels cumbersome to me as there is so much repetitive work involved with building Apex Objects that function as callout request params or responses.
This ...
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best practice to find the duplicate contact using apex trigger (not using duplicate rules)
I am using the below handler class in contact trigger to find the duplicate contacts, it checks only the lastName now if I want to check more than 2 or 3 filed then the only option I have is to create ...
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Using String Object or Field Names instead of literals. Using object prefixes
Is there any benefit of getting sobject type using
Schema.getGlobalDescribe().get('Lead');
instead of
Lead.sObjectType;
Also what is the benefit of using 3 char prefixes of known IDs like
Id ...
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Validate inputs on server side
BACKGROUND
I am working on a lightning component which is a simple form that takes from, to emails and a message body as user input and passes this data to an apex controller.
Apex Controller
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Array notation for List<List<Sobject>>
In an attempt to be as byte pinching as possible(personal goal), I have a question some time on Google has not been able to answer. I did look at some Java documentation to try and resolve the issue ...
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Best approach for handling preventing Parent trigger when updated from multiple child objects
I need some suggestions in improving the 'prevent trigger' logic. I have parent 'Lead' object and couple of child objects. I have Trigger Helpers on each of these objects. When these child object ...
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Validating Apex method parameters
Is it a good practice to validate method parameters in Apex methods? In C# and Java you generally validate against nulls and throw argument exceptions to prevent usage errors. I don't seem to see that ...
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Hosting images in SFMC - is it a good idea?
In my company, we store all the images we use in our emails in a separate FTP server; an FTP we know that can handle the load.
But since SFMC has the functionality of hosting images itself; that ...
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Dynamic client side Search for Accounts in VF page
I need to make a search input - which every character that printed on the keyboard will show the closest result.
for example :
If I printed "uni" all accounts that they names starting with "uni" ...
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Combining similar code with different objects
I have 4 very similar code blocks in a trigger that deal with synchronizing record type changes from Opportunity to its children. The only difference between them is that they do work on different ...
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Best way to save a API integration password
I am building an integration between Salesforce and other application with REST API calls. The Salesforce will be consuming data from that other app on in interval. I am writing my code and it is ...
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What is the best practice to store custom configuration for a managed package application?
We are working on an application in managed package, and we need to store app configuration. Generally, we want to allow users to turn on/off some features in our app. For example, on the settings ...
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Email Marketing: sending ID in email
This is a 'best practice' question:
Should we be sending a Salesforce GUID in an email? We have a button in an email to ask them for consent (to a thing). That button links to a VF Page or a ...
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False matches in a SQL query activity
I am trying to automate updates to the All Subscribers list whenever the preferred e-mail in Salesforce changes. I created a SQL query activity that compares our Salesforce data extension to the e-...
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Workflow or Process Builder?
I'm creating a scenario where upon a Queue change:
The resolution (text area) is updated with "XYZ text"
The Staff member (ticket owner) is changed to "XYZ user"
Those are technically 2 field ...
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A/B Testing in Marketing Cloud - what does the “Remainder” get sent?
When doing A/B testing in Marketing Cloud, the options here are to send a certain percentage to Email A, a certain percentage to Email B, then the "Remainder". My question is "what exactly does the ...
