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  Hello Trailblazers,   Today I am going to discuss about one functionality of Salesforce that everyone knows but still very few use it in correct way. We have been using Custom Settings for storing static values for global use and avoid hard coding, but I believe most of us use List type Custom Settings only. I am going to explain Hierarchy Custom setting and it’s actual/appropriate use in this blog. So first let us quickly understand what custom settings are – Custom Settings are just like Custom Objects in Salesforce which enable us to create custom sets of data that can be accessed in formula fields, validation rules, apex, flows & SOAP API without consuming an extra query for retrieval. There are two types of custom settings: List & Hierarchy. What is Hierarchy Custom Setting? Hierarchy Custom Settings does the same job done by List Custom Settings but with an additional power of managing data as per built-in hierarchical logic that let’s you decide what dat...

Hello Trailblazers, In this article we will discuss about the platform events. This covers basic idea of Platform Events, how platform events work, how to use Platform Events and some considerations for using Platform Events. Salesforce Platform Events follow Event Driven Architecture. So what is event driven architecture? In simple words, whenever any kind of action happens you notify someone with some message, and we call that action as an Event , message that it carries is known as Event Message , someone who is going to receive that message is known as Event Consumer , environment where action has happened is Event Producer and common channel through which Producer sends an event and receiver reads message is known as Event Bus . This is completely different from request-response structure, your system/application just have to subscribe to event channel and they will be notified in real-time whenever event occurs. Receivers are always in listening mode and more than one receive...

Visual Studio Code is the latest IDE for Salesforce Development and believe me it has eased developer’s life by providing rich functionalities. This post will help you to setup VS code editor for Salesforce development.  Downloads : 1.        Visual Studio Code 2.        Salesforce CLI Installing VS Code Editor To download Visual Studio Code navigate to link given above. From download page select your operating system and proceed to download. I will suggest you to download most stable version of VS Code Editor. Once download is complete, install it in the system. Once installation is complete, you’ll see below welcome screen. While installing make sure to select Add To PATH option. Now let’s go ahead and download Salesforce CLI.   Installing Salesforce CLI Salesforce CLI is a command line interface that simplifies development and build automation.  VS Code ...