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Sandstorm sandbox?

If you look at some older release notes, it becomes slightly clearer what exactly Sandstorm may be: We’ve rebuilt our sandbox copy engine to optimize performance, scalability, and customer success. ...
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What does each OrgPreferenceSetting do?

Here are those I could find: AnalyticsSharingEnable (available in version 40.0 and later) Turn On Enhanced Folder Sharing for Reports and Dashboards (?) Use Your Salesforce Sharing Settings in Wave ...
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What does each OrgPreferenceSetting do?

An up-to date way of matching the OrgPreferenceSettings list is using the Settings metadata. Using heroku/force CLI that would be: force fetch -t Settings Now you can search in the different ...
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How to avoid critical updates prompt when admin logs in everytime?

I don't think there is there is option or configuration to to disable critical updates. It not lack of functionality but its by design. We should understand following points: Critical updates are ...
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Salesforce reseller programme / Partner programme - Apto app - how does work?

This is a type of OEM application where SF allow user to build app and sell it as per there customization. The AppExchange OEM Edition nevertheless offers developers a proven and secure platform, ...
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Salesforce reseller programme / Partner programme - Apto app - how does work?

Salesforce allows you to build an application, called an OEM application, where your subscribers do not pay salesforce.com directly for licenses, but instead pay the OEM partner directly. In turn, the ...
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How to load configuration from custom meta data

Custom Metadata isn't just a drop-in configuration load/save system. It acts in most cases like other metadata objects and variables in Apex and is subject to exactly the same syntax and limitations. ...
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How to enable Einstein and configure it?

Einstein is an AI on top of various cloud offerings like sales, service, marketing ,community and so on . Some of the features are baked into platform and freely available while rest you will need ...
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what is difference between caseteams and queues?

A case team is simply a group of individuals working on a case; there are multiple people involved in the resolution of the case. For example, a case might need a service tech to take care of the ...
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Access Control mechanism of Activity Object?

The OWD definition of Private for activities is little different than how it works for other objects . When you put private as an organization wide default for activities the following is true: ...
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Enable the Enhanced Profile User Interface in a new scratch org

There is a setting available: "settings": { "userManagementSettings": { "enableNewProfileUI": true } }
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How to query the count of child records in soql

You can use aggregate query Select count(Id) totalChilds, Account__c from SVMXC__Site_c GROUP BY Account__c As suggested by @javanoob you can add limit as well Select count(Id) totalChilds, ...
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How to disable sending email from salesforce Org.

Setup -> Email Administration - > Email Deliverability Set to "No Access" This will stop ALL email from being sent which seems like what you want. Be aware though it could cause code ...
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Hide a Field From ONE User

You should opt for Permission set. Only thing is that permission cannot be revoked through the use of permission set. So, create/edit profile with minimum permission (without READ access) and create ...
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Can't get Enhanced Lookup search to find a record

The implementation of Search, Lookup Filters and unseelctive search terms was the root cause. This is the answer we got from Support: An entity-specific search (e.g. Case, Account, Custom Object) ...
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Architecture idea

Salesforce only runs its proprietary language and stack. You can't introduce other languages or components. Salesforce own Heroku that supports multiple languages including Python and has Salesforce ...
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Cloning Production org is possible?

You're correct, most of those settings aren't available through the normal Metadata APIs. I can think of two simple solutions to this problem. First, ask salesforce if they'll do it for you. They (...
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Developer Edition & Summer 16?

You can sign up for a pre-release version of the Summer 16 org . To roll out Summer 16 in your developer org as per trust site it will be released on 12th of June .
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add field to opportunity?

This sounds like an exam question. If that's true, then answering it for you would defeat the purpose of the exam. If you haven't done so already, I'd suggest going to Salesforce Trailhead to learn ...
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Is there a 'rule of thumb' on the upper limit of how many related records in related objects an object should have to avoid slow page loading?

For the best optimization, a Parent object should not have more than 100000 records of its child because it will slow down the process and will prevent you from deleting child records as per the ...
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Search Result missing from search layouts

Does the object in the org missing search results have a tab created ? Search and tabs are connected, if you do not have a tab for the object/ the user does not have access to the tab the search ...
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What does @isTest include and exclude from testing setup of Apex classes

Isolation of Test Data from Organization Data in Unit Tests Starting with Apex code saved using Salesforce API version 24.0 and later, test methods don’t have access by default to pre-existing data ...
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How could we enable the global header bar on the top of the org landing page

This is global header in salesforce communities and it appears when you enable salesforce communities. Important The global header is visible only in Salesforce orgs using Salesforce Classic. ...
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newly added picklist values in (case) status field not available for selection,

You need to add the value(s) to your Support Process (Classic: Setup > Customize > Cases > Support Processes, Lightning: Setup > Feature Settings > Service > Support Processes).
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Is that possible to write a validation rule that would allow to update only two fields of 800 on a custom object record?

No. You can't have enough validation rules that could cover this, nor could you have one (or even a few) rules that would compile within the limits of the system. Something this complicated would be ...
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Login as another user without View setup and configuration permission

You need at least View Setup & Configuration, as there's no "Login" option from anywhere other than the setup screens. You don't need Modify All Data if you're a Delegated Administrator (which ...
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make LWC's targetConfig's property mandatory

Unless I'm missing something with your question, why can't you just add the required attribute to your property? e.g. <targetConfigs> <targetConfig targets="lightning__RecordPage"&...
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Control Picklist value for a profile with out record type

Having the same problem myself, I came to this via Google. The VF solution doesn't appeal because it only deals with one part of the UI - the original picklist will still be visible elsewhere. Our ...
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Restricting records deletion

You are correct. Permission set is not used to enforce the restriction but we can extend the functionality using that. That is why we will first restrict the functionality and after that we will ...
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Is there any way around Verification Code ? I am using Selenium and Java to Automate Test

The verification code mechanism exists for good reasons and improves the security of production data. However in a dev org I often use the following approach to dissable all verificaiton codes, as it ...
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