TL;DR: Check out code to enrich DuplicateRecordItem records and to handle extra DuplicateRecordSet records after merging duplicates at https://github.com/dschach/duplicatehandling I love the standard Salesforce duplicate records feature (Trailhead: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/sales_admin_duplicate_management H&T: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.managing_duplicates_overview.htm) and have used it extensively, both to prevent duplicates and to track/report on duplicates for later management. If your org is set to allow […]
Lightning Component With Running User Information
Last week, at Snowforce in Salt Lake City, I saw a demonstration of the Lightning App Builder and decided that I wanted to make a Lightning component of my own. I thought the best thing to do was to follow the quick-start PDF, and was quite proud of that. I made the text say "Hello […]
ChatterBINGO is Now Open-Source
At Dreamforce 2010, I had the honor of writing the only (to date) community-contributed app to the Dreamforce org: Chatter BINGO.
It has been in an AppExchange listing for a while, in an unmanaged package, but I decided to open it up on GitHub to see if anyone wants to make updates/improvements.
Display Only My Role’s Records on a Report
Making a Salesforce Opportunity leaderboard is possible, but I’ve seen some cases where the standard filters don’t work well enough. It is easy enough to make a report that shows “My Accounts,” “My Opportunities,” and others. Let’s look at some of the standard options: According to the documentation, My Opportunities – Searches ONLY the opportunities you […]
Chatter Publisher Actions (Part 2): Object Custom Action
In the previous post, we looked at using the standard (button-click) way to create a new child record using Publisher Actions. Pretty basic stuff. Using Visualforce to create a custom action is a bit harder. Let's start with the documentation. The PDF provided by clicking on the link in the Actions screen (Account action is […]
Chatter Publisher Actions (Part 1): Create a Record
One of the most interesting – but least explained – features of Summer 13 (184) is Chatter Actions. There are three kinds of actions (Yes, you thought there were two, but there are more!) and after writing a few of each, here are some examples. The documentation is, as of this writing, both incomplete and […]
Create and Populate a Map Without Loops
There are many reasons to use Maps in Apex triggers. Sometimes I want to make a List of Contacts, but I want to pull each one by its ID. This is a good reason to abandon the List and to make a Map<Id, Contact>. (Some will prefer to use Map<String, Contact>, and that is okay […]
Workflow ISCHANGED() translated to Apex trigger
Workflow is great. I can simply and declaratively make changes, and can easily update things like email templates, criteria, tasks, etc. without using Eclipse and writing/running unit tests.Sometimes, however, workflow isn’t enough; we need to use a trigger. Today, I had a use-case that when a DateTime field is filled, a contact (identified via a […]
Best Practice: Multiple Chatter Posts of the Same File
Salesforce Administrators learn to remind users: “Search before you create a new lead.” Pretty simple, right? Duplicated records are a pain. Then why do I see some very accomplished Salesforce users in the Dreamforce app posting duplicate Content/Files in Chatter? Here are some examples from the Files tab: The better thing to do – assuming […]
Next Birthday Formula
How would you display your Contacts with upcoming birthdays? I’ve seen people use “Birthdays This Week,” “Birthdays This and Next Week,” and other reports to display the list. I’ve also seen requirements for showing a person’s next birthday, to trigger an automatic email to each Contact on his/her birthday. Let’s see how it’s done: Next, […]
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