If we think about it, it’s an interesting problem; To find Salesforce org type via Apex code. There can be numerous use cases where one might need to identify the type of org he is in. Perhaps, there are certain lines of code that should only be executed if those are on a Developer org […]
Lightning Email Templates for sure are superior to their old counterpart, Classic Email Templates, however, they too come with certain limitations – like every other thing in Salesforce. In Lightning Email Templates, you can easily add the fields of a single object as merge fields. These merge fields are then replaced with the values stored […]
When it comes to designing PDFs via Visualforce pages in Salesforce, there are multiple restrictions the developers face. As soon as we add the renderAs=’PDF’ attribute, the design gets messed up. There is a reason for that: As per the official documentation, the Salesforce PDF rendering service only allows the CSS to be version 2.1 […]
You would also have faced the same problem time and time again. You are given an Excel or CSV file with tons of data and are asked to import all of the data to Salesforce org. You check the data. The file has no column for country names but includes country codes that make sense. […]
For quite some time, Salesforce didn’t have an efficient way to allow its users to deploy metadata to different orgs. Yes, we have Change Sets but we have had them now for a long time and things haven’t changed a lot for Change Sets (no pun intended). They do the work but there is a […]
So, I was recently working with a Web-To-Lead form in Salesforce and realized that all my values were being inserted into the new Lead record except for one field. Yes, it was a DateTime field – a custom one. I figured out that that it must be the format issue, so, I began trying multiple […]
Even though Salesforce has a number of restrictions and limitations – which are for valid reasons, there still are many tools and apex workarounds that can solve our problems. This time we are helping our users in creating a file from an email attachment in Salesforce. We know that with Salesforce’s Messaging.InboundEmailHandler class, we can […]
So, I had a requirement couple of weeks ago from my client in which I had to export some record data from Salesforce records to an Excel file. I started working on a lightning component hoping there would be a straightforward way to generate an Excel file in Aura component. Although, I did find a […]
Salesforce’s Web-to-Lead is a great tool to generate leads via HTML forms embedded in any website or app. A Web-to-Lead form is essentially an HTML form that includes our choice of Lead’s fields that we want the user to fill. We can use multiple types of fields in the form in question, However, Salesforce restricts […]
