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…
Category: Stupid
Silly Dev Trick: Record Type Id without SOQL
Not rocket science but as usual there are a lot of bad posts on this so: Switch Opportunity for whatever object and tralala.
VS Code will not launch Chrome to Authenticate new Project
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…
Silly Dev Trick: Apex Flex Queue with Web Callouts
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…
Network Solutions – Nothing ever Changes
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…
Silly Admin Trick: Enable Service Contracts
Should be straight forward…to enable Service Contracts you have to “Enable Entitlement Management” …why is this so hard to google.
Wave / EA: Counting the number of weeks, months, days, etc. in SAQL
This was for some reason harder than it should have been. Needed to create the number of weeks from the beginning of the year to today. Re-posting this really because there are not a lot of examples out on the web. date_diff(“week”,toDate(“2018-01-01″,”yyyy-MM-dd”), now()) as ‘YearlyGoal’ I will go back later to make the start of the year…
Clicking Link in Email Opens Blank Chrome Tab
Restart Chrome…it has an update that has been applied. Click Help -> About to validate but this issue drove me nuts and since I work on a Mac that only needs rebooting when the VPN crashes (1-4 weeks) I was periodically suffering through this one. It is amazing how long you can deal with a…
Salesforce.com Icons
No school like the old school. A quick way to give quick visual feedback in the Classic Salesforce.com UI is to use the built-in icons in conjunction with a formula field. A source that I have used forever seems to work and then not work so I found another URL that seems to work: Does…
Adding New Opportunity Record Type to Wave Sales App
We created a new Opportunity Type over the weekend and I assumed that it would just magically get added to the Opportunity dataset that the default Wave Sales App builds out but no, the dataflow/dataset was missing all the records related to the new record type. Creating a new dataset showed the data so I…