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Meet the Summer 16 Salesforce MVPs : Part 1

It’s been more than a month since Summer’16 Salesforce MVPs were announced and its almost “Dreamforce”. I literally said that as if I’m saying “It’s almost Christmas”.

  I’ve got my VISA Interview in a couple of hours. If everything goes well, I will be meeting all these awesome MVPs at Dreamforce!! Yaay!!

  New Delhi Salesforce Developer Group just completed the first ever #Trailheadathon and…

7 Salesforce Ideas we’ve all been waiting for, coming in Summer’16 Release

With Summer’16, the 50th Release, Salesforce delivers some awesome Ideas that have been pending in Salesforce IdeaExchange for quite some time now. Some are 2 years old, others even 5 years.

Now you will ask why did Salesforce took such a long time to implement these ideas. The thing is, an Idea like this, might look simple but there is a lot to think of and account for while implementing it.

Sal…

Common Salesforce Apex Idioms and Patterns : Part 1

In this series of blog posts I will try to list out the common Apex Idioms and Design Patterns that we all as Salesforce Developers need to use from time to time. We tend to google these idioms out or try to refer to Salesforce developer forums or stackexchange to find the right code idiom that we can use to solve our particular technical issue.

I will try to list out as many as possible in…

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  The room lights were dimmed, presentation was up and running, attendees had taken their seats and seemed excited and the Presenter(Me, Atul Gupta) was nervous, excited and anxious.

Yes this is the story of 2nd New Delhi Salesforce DG Meetup and the 1st offline #SalesforceSaturday session. After having the Revival Meetup on 21st February, this Meetup was topped up with a…

Here is the Presentation for the Lightning Components Explained  we had as part of the New Delhi Salesforce DG Meetup and #SalesforceSaturday session on 23rd April, 2016

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Meetup.com Group http://bit.ly/1QMPNRj­

Twitter http://bit.ly/20g2I0A­

New Delhi Salesforce DUG Success Community Group http://sforce.co/1oc0lQA

  Stay tuned. More Tips to come. Please…

CloudVandana Salesforce Tip#2: Create Package.xml on the fly

The package.xml pain

If you are a big fan of Force.com Migration Tool a.k.a Ant Migration Tool  like me then you know how cumbersome it is to create a package.xmlfile for it. Either you have been disciplined enough from the start that as you go along building/creating stuff in Salesforce, you note down their api names properly, otherwise you are in for a big task of getting the api names of the…

Presentation

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Enjoy the Presentation and Session recording.

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How to use Workbench like a Pro

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CloudVandana Salesforce Tip#2: Enable Disable all Workflows, Validation Rules and More

Hi Awesome Admins and Developers. I’m back with more awesome tips to make your life easier.

Not so hypothetical scenario : You want to upload data into Salesforce, lots of data, may be for multiple objects. You started with Data Loader or Dataloader.io and got an error. Hmm….what you seem to be missing. Oh yes, you forgot to disable the Validation Rules.

Great, now that you have realized your…

CloudVandana Salesforce Tip#1 : Open Multiple Links Simultaneously

Hello Salesforce Admins and Developers.  This is CloudVandana Salesorce Tip#1. I will be coming out with a new Tip every couple of days. These tips will help you all Awesome Salesforce Developers out there to become more Awesome.

Here’ a challenge for you. I hope you like challenges.

As part of a requirement you need to investigate these Account records and their data in a Salesforce org. What…

So you want to learn, How to use new Debug Logs (Winter’16)

  Hardly new now I suppose. It’s been quite some time since the release of Winter’16 but due to the lack of some good articles on this subject, here it is for your (All the Awesome Salesforce Developers out there) eyes only.

After the Salesforce orgs got migrated to Winter’16, I was sweetly surprised with the change I saw in the Debug Log View specially in the upper section where I used to add…

New Delhi Salesforce Developer User Group Revival Meetup

It’s been a great and hectic last couple of week and I finally got the time out of my laziness to write about the awesome experience I had organizing and attending the New Delhi Salesforce Developer User Group(DUG) Revival Meetup.

It was an experience for sure as this was my first time organizing any such meetup. It was great learning opportunity to organize as well as to meet the awesome…

User Guide : Multiple Change Set Component Selector

Multiple Change Set Component Selector

I hope you have already gone through the Introduction and Installation Guide for this Chrome Extension.

Now that you have successfully installed this extension, let me take you through how to use it.

  After installing the extension you will see a new Browser Action icon beside the chrome address bar.

Click it and the main UI of the extension will become…

Multiple Change Set Component Selector

Here’s the situation:

You have to migrate these components from Sandbox to another Sandbox or Production….

600 Custom Fields

25 Apex Classes

34 List Views

15 Workflows

using Change Sets.

  Get ready for a couple of hours of grind.

You will have to select each and every check box for fields, apex classes, list views and add them to the Change Set.

  I know…