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Hello Trailblazers,   Today we will discuss about another no/low code feature of Salesforce – External Services. Whenever delivering an application if you can provide 360-degree view of products or services on a single platform then it becomes important factor which can affect customer satisfaction in positive way. And integrations help us in achieving the same by allowing us to connect to various services to get data or process data. In traditional approach we were using apex classes to implement REST integration with the help of endpoints and other necessary details. But Salesforce has now come up with External Services with the help of which you can connect your Salesforce Org to any RESTful service with the help of API Specification. So now onwards whenever you have to call any external web service just perform below steps and you will be able to connect your org without any code – Get API Specification File* from web service provider Create Named Credentials Register your...

  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, We all know how powerful Salesforce flows are. We can achieve many functionalities using flows without writing single line of code. Recently, I came across situation where I wanted to create multiple records of an object by taking inputs from user. And I came with solution using flows where we can ask user whether he wants add another record and allow him to create multiple records. We are going to discuss that solution in this blog. We are going to use Assignment & Decision elements for implementing this solution. Here we will ask user whether he wants to add another record or not after entering details for one record. And basis on user’s input we will make decisions. We can use Loop element as well but in that case we should have idea of how many records needs to be created. With solution explained below user can create as many records. Implementation Details :  For this demo we will create flow which will take lead first name, last name & compan...

Hello Trailblazers, In this blog we are going discuss about HTTP callouts from Client-side controller in LWC. In Aura components we have Apex controller with AuraEnabled method which have code for HTTP callout in it. We call this Apex method on execution of some action and then send the response back to Aura component for processing. But with Lightning Web Components we can easily make callout from Javascript itself using fetch method. If you are not familiar with fetch method then please checkout this link . fetch method primarily takes 2 parameters as input which are endpoint and information about request which includes method type, header information , body of the request all in JSON format. fetch(endpont, { REQUEST_INFO}).then((response => response.json())).then((responseData) => {PROCESS_responseData_HERE}); Let’s start with the implementation. I am going to use Data Faker Heroku app for demonstration. In this example I will be focusing on getting data from third party so ...

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...

Hello Trailblazers,   In this blog I have created generic lookup component using LWC which can be used directly without changing single line of code. You just have to pass object name, fields to be retrieved and fieldname on which search operation should happen while using this component along with event handler method, that’s it you are ready to use record captured in lookup field. Which makes it available for use multiple times in single component.    This example contains below main  components :   1.        GenericLookup   – Apex class for querying records   2.        genericLookup   - LWC Main component - This you will be using as per your need   3.        recordListItem   - LWC to render suggested records   First lets  have a look at GenericLookup class Now create  recordListItem  component This component is...

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 ...