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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Is pushing all changes on one branch on Git a great idea?
We didn't use much Git during development and we created multiple functionalities.
Is pushing all changes on one branch a great idea or should we create one branch for every feature?
Advantages: we ...
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What do I have to do in this case: List<Sobject> or Sobject?
I am beginner in Salesforce and I have to verify if the field Order.ShippingCountry is filled using the OrderId.
I would like to reuse this method below to fetch the Order.ShippingCountry. But I was ...
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How to handle triggers with dependent objects?
I have a problem regarding triggers on objects that effect other objects.
When a Contact is saved on Salesforce, in my case it also saves an Affiliation.
I have a trigger on each object that when ...
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Why have service classes? (Service Layer Model)
tl;dr - What are the advantages of having handler and service methods separate housed in separate classes, rather than joined in a single class.
Background
Salesforce and others reference using ...
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What are the best practices for wsdl2apex and SOAP callouts from Salesforce
I wonder, what are the best practices I should apply when I need to integrate Salesforce with an external SOAP webservice?
First of all - Apex class names generated with wsdl2apex have names which ...
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Is hard coding custom metadata type name in Apex a good practice?
I am new to custom metadata types (CMDT). With the Winter'22 maintenance, I learned that there is no longer a need to write Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) to access custom metadata records in ...
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How to share lwc modules as reusable utility components
So I am looking to implement reusability pattern across Lwc's using utility components. What Im not understanding is limitations of importing modules/dependencies like ShowToastEvent.
If I create a ...
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SOQL query performance with many or few fields
I have a doubt. Sometimes the developer repeats many queries in different places, but what changes is the number of fields. I sometimes think about centralizing queries, but queries can have fields ...
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@testSetup best practice
I'm trying to understand something so I can use @testSetup annotation wisely.
As i read here:
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.202.0.apexcode.meta/apexcode/...
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How to prevent accidental config changes made directly in Production?
Too many times we've had developers (as well as our release manager, who also dev's) inadvertently make a change directly in Production because they had the Prod org open alongside their dev org in ...
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Count of RelatedLIsts on a Page Layout
Using Tooling API, or Reports, is there a way to find how many related lists are on each Page Layout ?
I am dealing with a large Org with more than 600 Objects, and some objects have more than 100 ...
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud : How to ensure SMS are sent to only those Phone numbers which are present in the sendable Data Extension
I have a sendable DE, which has a Phone and a locale field. I want to send SMS to only the numbers that are present in the Data extension.
The last time I tried to send the SMS to the contacts present ...
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Best Practice and Security Question: Send Salesforce record Id to external Systems
This may sound a silly question but i just wanna be sure i am following the best practices.
I have to integrate with some systems for Accounts, Cases, etc. Salesforce is the master system and after a ...
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Reasons to Use More Than One Profile in an Org
I just started a project at a new company who is configuring a new Salesforce org. I've learned that they are planning on using only one Profile for what currently looks like 3 different personas (...
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How can I write Apex Classes that share the same name as Standard or Custom objects? Is this even recommended?
I'm working on a third-party API integration and whilst modeling the relationship between classes and objects, I hit a roadblock.
I need to write Apex classes that have the same namespace as standard ...
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Will the use of apex:actionFunction result in a CSRF vulnerability?
I need the record to be updated when the visualforce page loads. In the apex:page tag, I utilised the action property to invoke the apex method that executes update DML. Salesforce considers an onload ...
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Best practice for migrating from same-record update Process Builders/Workflows to before-save Flows
First there was Workflow, and we built separate workflows for each process/action on an Object.
Then there was Process Builder and Flow, and we were advised as a best practice to create a single ...
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Structural Question - Record Triggered flow and Apex Trigger Together?
This is a general question and i would like an opinion from the experts.
I have to do something on Account that is too simple and can be achieved with the use of record-triggered flow. However, we ...
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Preventing Hourly Automated Emails from sending if no subscribers are on the list [duplicate]
Currently have inherited an automated email series that runs hourly that is sending 14 different emails after running a query that usually goes to zero recipients. A filter is also being used to ...
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Apex: Where is a good/recommended place to store custom error messages?
In order to avoid creating duplicate string literals (the error messages) in both the class that would, for example, throw an exception and its corresponding test class, where is a good/recommended ...
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Best practises with Lightning Message Service
As an ISV, I need to establish communication between LWC and Visualforce page. I am planning to leverage LMS and I have 2 questions:
Which are the best practices regarding Lightning Message Channels? ...
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Best practice for establishing Salesforce as a public and secure webhook endpoint target?
We are looking at setting up our Salesforce org as a public and secure endpoint target for a 3rd party application (Housecall Pro) which will be sending us webhook calls. The only rub is they cannot ...
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One or multiple triggers for a generic Platform Event?
Do Trigger Best Practises still apply with Platform Events?
With Custom Object triggers there are established rules, like:
Have only one trigger per Object
Have no logic in the trigger. Instead, ...
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How to avoid for loop and use map or some other technique for below logic [duplicate]
I have below code ,but not able to understand how i can avoid second for loop inside account
please suggest
public static void getOpenCaseOnAccount() {
Map<id,user> userIds = new map<...
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"Traditional" Trigger Frameworks vs Dynamic Metadata Trigger Frameworks
I'm all too familiar with the Kevin O'Hara trigger framework and have used it as a base framework in many projects before.
However, I've recently been doing some in-depth reading about the idea of ...
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Minified code in LWC is wrong because of optional chaining operator
I have a LWC that has a simple getter function that controls whether to display an element or not:
get _isGridNotEmpty(){
return this._gridData?.length > 0;
}
However I found that the element ...
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How to avoid hardcoding the URL in Apex class
I wrote this code looking at references and documentation. However, I want to prevent hardcoding of the URl . Also, the email that I receive goes to my company's junk mail box. What best practice can ...
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Validation Rule Best Practise [closed]
I would like to know the best practice while creating a validation rule in Salesforce. Whether we need to split it down as much as we can(so that it's easier to understand and could give specific ...
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Why Import Fields Instead of Use Text in LWC?
In the salesforce trailhead "Lightning Web Components and Salesforce Data: Use Apex to Work with Data" we have the following code:
import { LightningElement, wire } from "lwc";
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Why Declare Variables Outside of LWC Class
In the salesforce trailhead "Lightning Web Components and Salesforce Data: Use Apex to Work with Data" we have the following code:
import { LightningElement, wire } from "lwc";
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How to handle deep links without CSRF tokens gracefully?
CSRF protection is mandatory now, and we have enabled it on our public site successfully, but as this previous answer notes, plain links (such as emailed URLs or bookmarks) to protected pages don't ...
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Best Practice: Using Id or Name in Filter Criteria and Formula Fields
We're working in an Org that uses Ids in Filter Criteria and Formula Fields to dictate logic based on Record Types. When you refresh a sandbox, it maps the correct Id to the correct record type id and ...
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Best practice to avoid naming collisions - lwc app
I wonder what is known best practice to deal with name collisions for salesforce lwc applications. Do we need to prefix names of classes, components, etc. with abbreviations. Unlocked package with ...
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Best Practice: How to restrict access to Communities in Sandbox environments?
We have this scenario: We have multiple sandbox environments that are used to develop and customize communities. Some communities include a public section.
Some of these sandbox communities are ...
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Case Assignment Rules running Multiple Times - Negative Impact
I have a bit of an odd question. Is there a negative impact running assignment rules on a Case object on every insert/update? We have a use case where we need to run when the user uses inline edit, ...
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In what all ways can I run a health check on my Salesforce instance?
In what all ways can I run a health check on my SF instance so that I improve the operational health of the overall instance and I minimize the technical debt. I know that we can run Salesforce ...
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is it ok to update a record based on a field even if the said field is not updated with new value?
I have a class that computes tax code for a given account and updates the tax code field with the new calculated value. Now irrespective of whether the tax code generated is different from the ...
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Is there a best practice for the number of script activities in an automation?
I'm creating an automation that may need to have upwards of 20 script activities, in order to process 40,000+ records as there's a governor limit of 2500 in Rows.Retrieve. What's the best practice ...
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Is there a best practice on which metadata types can be directly created in Production directly?
We are moving to Copado for migrations and deployments until now we were using change sets etc.
If I have to put a governance for which metadata types can be created directly in Prod, what should be ...
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Using System.runAs in all tests - Best practice or Antipattern?
When doing functional tests I see many people also check the permissions by using System.runAs(userWithRightPermission) in most of their tests.
I see good reasons for doing this, because then you ...
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Best Practice for lookup relationship
I know that the best practice for Master Detail Relationship is 10,000 child records per parent. But there is a recomendation for lookup relationship?
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How to inject Mocks into LWC Controller AuraEnabled static methods
I have an Apex controller for an LWC, something like this:
public with sharing class MyController {
@AuraEnabled(cacheable=true)
public static string getSomething() {
try {
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Best practice when pushing change sets through Dev->Test->Release sandboxes [closed]
Using Changesets to migrate changes in an org with Dev sandboxes and a UAT/Test sandbox:
I've always considered it good practice to push the changes from Dev->UAT for testing and then push the same ...
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Trigger not working on Bulk records properly
**Requirement** - Requirement is to generate a random number(not sequential) for every case getting created, provided number remains unique in salesforce database. The number is then appended with ...
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Batch Start Method Best Practice: DML/Scheduling?
During some solutioning design, my team has come across some complexity around batch scheduling. In order to maintain performance, we've been asked if it is okay to schedule the follow up batch in the ...
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Is there is good way to send an email to a user after 5 minutes of inactivity on an Account?
An indeterminate number of images will be attached to Lead records.
We have a requirement that 5 minutes after the last image is attached, the Lead owner should automatically receive an email.
I've ...
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Use global variable and formula field vs get record in flow builder?
I have a question on what is best practice / more efficient way of building a flow. I need to get ~ 3 current running user fields for decisions in a flow. Currently, I'm just using formula fields ...
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What is the most elegant way to copy entire tables of salesforce data in the least destructive way possible?
The product I'm developing is going to act like acorporate backup solution at first but there are some data processing features that will be developed later that are the real focus.
Let's say I wanted ...
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Is error handling needed when working with input parameters?
I have a simple apex method that is used by an Aura Lightning component:
@AuraEnabled
public static void doSomething(String requestInfo) {
MyRequest request;
try {
request = (...
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Static code analysis issue
I have a method where I am fetching the Id from the URl and using page reference method as below.
Public test_method() {
Id = ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('id');
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