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Schedule and Run a Report as an specific User from Apex
I want to sketch out a possible design, as this is a question I've been turning over myself. For the record, I have not had time to build this out myself, even as a proof of concept, but I think ...
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Lightning Framework vs Standard Client Side Frameworks (i.e. React) // Which to chose when, and why?
I haven't done much lightning development outside of a handful "hello world" apps, but I've been building React/Typescript/Visualforce apps on salesforce for several years and I'm confident that non-...
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Any Platform Event Library or Best Practices out there?
Is it smart to create events like CaseInserted__e for all the possible objects i need to track, or is is smarter to have a general SObjectInserted__e event?
Generally, use one event for each unique ...
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Service methods in Lightning Components
Realistically, you'll probably want to create a Static Resource, and use this as a shared resource, also outlined in Modularizing Code in Lightning Components. In your JavaScript file, you'll want to ...
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Dealing with auto-batching of triggers
However, this 1) doesn't work for before insert since the id doesn't yet exist, and 2) feels legitmately hacky. Are there any better ways to do this?
Your approach (Set<Id> recordsProcessed) is ...
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lwc dataservice architecture best practices
Firstly, a very nicely framed question!
Here is what we found to be best after brain-storming:
Apex methods should be used ONLY for getting the data and for DML statements. In short, it should be ...
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One Process Builder vs Multiple per single Object
If you have a great many processes you want to automate, then consolidating them into one flow via Process Builder can be a great choice from an organization perspective. Doing so will also give you ...
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Inner Classes/Interfaces
It means that an inner class can't have an inner class in Apex. So a structure like this is legal and common, especially when implementing patterns like wrapper classes or dependency injection:
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Does Lookup Skew affect only master-detail relationships or also lookup ones?
Skew and lock contention are generally two different issues.
About skew
In a nutshell, skew is a matter of probability distribution. A good database index is one that has a uniform-ish distribution. ...
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Architecture
Most of the details are outlined in the Marketing Cloud Connect documentation. When most people get into the guts of the connector, they realize that it's not as simple or as straightforward as ...
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Skinny Tables - Salesforce
It makes sense to store this info in separate tables. There's only handful of standard fields and almost all of them are indexed. It's a good idea to have them in a table that doesn't change very ...
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Sandboxes - Full versus Partial Copy - Same Except Storage
There are more differences.
A Full Sandbox can only be refreshed every 29 days, whereas a Partial Copy Sandbox can be refreshed every 5 days.
Only sample data is copied to a Partial Copy Sandbox on ...
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Salesforce and microservices
In Salesforce the equivalent of a database is an org and Salesforce charge per User per month per org. So a custom object per org would get very expensive very quickly... From the link in your ...
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Enterprise Layers and Naming Conventions
Here is what I use (I follow the fflib apex-common examples pattern plus the examples in the Fawcett book which are about custom objects Driver__c, Contestant__c, and Race__c).
Standard object like ...
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What's the practical difference between canvas & connected apps?
I want to explain this in a different way. Some of the difference between the two is lying within the settings for canvas app as below. As soon as you click that little checkbox called 'Canvas' within ...
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Separation of Concerns?
Yes it should be considered with every single method you write. Each line of code—or if you want to go deeper than that, each cyclomatic branching within your code—is vulnerable to trying to do more ...
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How to get a runtime list of all fields of a given sObject?
If you know the SObjectType already:
public static List<SObjectField> getFields(SObjectType sObjectType)
{
return sObjectType.getDescribe().fields.getMap().values();
}
If you just have an ...
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Service methods in Lightning Components
In Winter 18, you can create a utility class and use it to directly return results without using a callback.
Quote:
We made it easier to return a result from aura:method, which is used to ...
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Lightning Framework vs Standard Client Side Frameworks (i.e. React) // Which to chose when, and why?
To begin with I would approach your question different way rather than
In what cases are lightning components the right choice? I would ask my self
In what cases are lightning components not the ...
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Why the Service layer is usually implemented with Static methods?
I've gone in to a lot of detail about static and instance methods. Generally speaking, a method like the one written in the Trailhead falls under the category of a "utility method." A ...
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Salesforce file storage off loading to AWS S3 to save file storage space in Salesforce
Has anyone faced a similar challenge?
Sure. Salesforce storage has always been known to be relatively expensive compared to mass storage services like Google and Amazon, so using a cost-effective ...
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Any Platform Event Library or Best Practices out there?
This post contains multiple questions and is probably too broad but let me try to answer anyway.
Overall I would say that using Platform Events (PEs) instead of triggers is not a good approach if you ...
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Dealing with auto-batching of triggers
My first question: what is the best practice to handle a trigger firstRun variable? Since workflows can often cause a trigger to run twice, it's important to pass through pieces of logic only the ...
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Useful books to master Salesforce
I own the first and last book and I can say they are completely worth it! I learn a lot thanks to them and improved a lot my coding skills and overall knowledge of the salesforce platform. I would ...
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Understanding the execution
TL;DR version:
Salesforce has put a lot of thought into when things are executed.
Without input from an authoritative source inside of Salesforce, the best we can do is guess. This is one of those ...
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Split Account fields across multiple Visualforce Tabs....Possible?...Been-There-Done-That?
One way you can do it is to use FieldSets. You create a field set for each tab and inside the override page, use a repeat to render them. Like so:
<apex:repeat value="{!$ObjectType.Account....
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Design Question: Any way around the "System.AsyncException: Future method cannot be called from a future or batch method" error in this situation?
I normally check three things before firing a @future method. Note, I learned a lot from reading Advanced Apex Programming by Dan Appleman. The asynchronous patterns are probably his strongest work. ...
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Enterprise Layers and Naming Conventions
Note that I am not a user of https://github.com/financialforcedev/fflib-apex-common so this is an outsider's opinion.
If you want to include pattern names in class names then making the pattern name ...
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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?
If you're on lightning, there's some documented steps you can take:
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/lightning-experience-performance-optimization/measure-lightning-experience-...
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Why the Service layer is usually implemented with Static methods?
In addition to @sfdcfox answer, let me throw in how the fflib pattern supports dependency injection for services during unit testing
Here's a Contact Service
public inherited sharing class ...
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