Friday, 17 November 2017

Lightning Component Code Review using Command Line Interface (CLI)

The Salesforce world is moving fast with Lightning. Lightning is an efficient and consistent interface to navigate through your org and the Lightning Experience takes things to another level. In order to enables us to leverage our code, ensuring at the same time that we follow the Salesforce recommended best practices, Salesforce has introduced Lightning Command Line Interface(CLI). WHAT IS LIGHTNING CLI? Lightning CLI is a Heroku Toolbelt plugin that lets you scan your code for general...
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Tuesday, 14 November 2017

How Salesforce turned Dreamforce 2017 into myDreamforce

My Einstein, My Lightning, My Trailhead — My Salesforce If you are a Salesforce junkie, you know Dreamforce means new product announcements, mostly a ‘new cloud’ and a plethora of new things for Salesforce enthusiasts to get their hands on. This Dreamforce, they did all of that, albeit a bit differently. Rather than just roll out a bunch of swanky features and capabilities, Salesforce went all guns blazing on ‘personalizing’ their offerings. Result- mere product offerings turned into...
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How to Convert Attachments to Files in 9 Easy Steps!

It was Halloween and I was working on a customer’s environment who extensively uses Lightning Experience to search for an important attachment and to my surprise, it was not showing up in search. That was a scary thing, particularly on a Halloween night! I was mighty worried as it was an IMPORTANT file. To verify, I had navigated to the particular record and saw that the file was present in the “Notes and Attachment” section. My sigh of relief could be heard miles away! However,...
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Tuesday, 31 October 2017

4 Reasons Why AppExchange is More Powerful than ever Before!

Salesforce AppExchange, the #1 cloud marketplace, is a proven ecosystem of apps with millions of installs and thousands of customer reviews to help you find the best match for your business. As of 24th Oct 2017, Salesforce went for a complete revamp of the AppExchange UI. What this essentially means is that while AppExchange just a Marketplace for Applications earlier, which then went on to list Components too, it now lists Lightning Data and Lightning Bolt as well! 1. Salesforce Welcomes...
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Monday, 30 October 2017

AppExchange 2.0 Secrets Unleashed for Salesforce Partners

Had Marc Benioff not gifted the phrase “App Store” to his mentor and friend, the late Steve Jobs, the AppExchange would have been known as the Salesforce App Store today. With 4000+ solutions, 5 million+ app installs and 87% of Salesforce customers using AppExchange apps, the 2005 born, 11-year-old AppExchange has come a long way from merely being an apps listing service to a powerful community of business apps, customers and partners. Its recent makeover unveiled on 24th Oct, 2017,...
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Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Understanding – Time to First Byte

Introduction I faced slow website loading in a project and I am sure many of you must have faced the same. Now-a-days, people are worried about responsiveness of web server and speed of their websites. There are many reasons as to why your website might be slow! Typically, the most common reasons are inappropriate hardware configuration, incorrect coding practises, slow internet connection and so on. Apart from these, there is an overlooked but highly important factor that degrades...
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Sunday, 13 November 2016

10 Things I love About Wave Analytics

If your company has huge amount of data and your top management needs actionable reports for turnover, growth, revenue etc., you would need a robust and scalable BI tool or provide these answers quickly. This is where Salesforce Wave Analytics has emerged as a crucial player. Sample Wave Dashboard (Image source: elibrumbaugh.com) Built on the Wave platform, Salesforce Analytics Cloud is much more than simple Business Intelligence. Organizations can build their own BI applications...
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