Computers, Music, and Thoughts
On a project that has me doing a lot of Salesforce Flow. I’ve seen a lot of people using a loop to do record count which was probably the only solution a couple releases ago but with all of the enhancements constantly coming it is hard to keep up. Anyhoo, this is a quick way…
When doing custom salesforce buttons and actions, knowing what your hostname is and/or the instance you are on is important when trying to add functionality and redirects to other custom or managed package resources. And with Lightning and Apex you have javascript and the URL methods respectively in order to determine your URL and hostname…
Not rocket science but as usual there are a lot of bad posts on this so: Switch Opportunity for whatever object and tralala.
If you cancelled out or for whatever reason cannot get VS Code to launch a new browser window to authenticate your org do the following from command line: lsof -i tcp:1717 kill -9 <the process ID> Instructions are here: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.sfdx_dev.meta/sfdx_dev/sfdx_dev_troubleshoot_cancel_auth.htm Sounds easy to remember…but then a couple months pass and here I sit wondering why I…
More of a watch out for this but when using Apex Flex Queue with classes that do web callouts you have to add ‘Database.AllowsCallouts’ to your queueable class like so: public class ExampleQueueableClass implements Queueable, Database.AllowsCallouts{ This got me but after the usual hunt and peck the googles answered the call: https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/216346/17245 This is the error the…
There are some great resources for Salesforce DX but it can be confusing knowing which commands align with the functionality you’re trying to execute. Below are some commands and examples of a basic workflow for setting up DX, pulling data from a sandbox using a change set instead of creating a package.xml, and then pushing it…
Every year they seem to up the limit but for those doing intensive testing and running up your logs here is a quick way to release the storage: tl;dr Run the following soql in developer console with the ‘Tooling API’ checked: select id, LogLength, LogUser.Name from apexlog order by LogLength DESC select id, LogLength, LogUser.Name…
Been doing a lot of SFDX lately and in automating the deployment, testing, and validation of unlocked packages I have found that the documentation around sfdx force:apex:execute is a bit lacking. There are a couple things that got missed in the documentation that you need to know to get this working: The file format is just like…
There are several guides from Salesforce and other blogs on how to run Salesforce Data Loader from the command line. In addition you can script sfdx to do data loads as well but it seems that only supports bulk which for certain objects can be buggy so we might explore that later for this entry…
Back in 2015 I moved all my domains over to Google mainly because for 12$ a year they’ll maintain my domain registration, run my DNS, and give me free email ala gmail and at the time I was still hosting my own email, DNS, and web and the email maintenance was just too much specially the never ending spam…