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Experience Cloud License Comparison

When it comes to experience cloud licenses, most of us have confusion on which feature is part of which experience cloud license. Today, I am trying to consolidate features supported in experience cloud with each licenses. Please feel free to comment, incase anything needs to be added on. Experience cloud formerly known as communities, provides two kind of sites Partner – Used for…

Platform Events vs Traditional API Callouts

Salesforce platform is continually evolving over years. Salesforce adoption across the industries have increased enablement for multi system integration. Platform events were introduced in 2017, over the time it provides lots of capability. Many of aspiring Salesforce developers/consultants/architects have doubt on when to use Platform event or what extra it offers over Rest/SOAP APIs. Today I…

OAuth 2.0 Device Flow with Implementation

Today we will do deep dive through OAuth 2.0 Device flow and how it can be implemented in Salesforce. This flow is used when you have smart devices with limited screen input. An example is a fitness tracker, smart TV etc. Many of us have confusion on when to use Device flow vs Asset Token flow. The thumb rules is, if your device allows input go ahead with Device flow. Asset token flow is for…

View my post on how I cracked by B2B Solution Architect exam.

Salesforce Certified Solution Architect Certifications are dreams of most of Solution Architects. I am sharing my story on how I passed my exam. This certification requires depth knowledge of B2B Commerce, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, Salesforce Field Service, Mulesoft, Pardot and how to integrate each of them. I am on my Certified Technical Architect Journey and hence I had deep…

OAuth flows are widely accepted authentication standard in industry now a days. Today lets have a deep dive in PKCE Flow. How it works and how it can be implemented with Salesforce. OAuth code with PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange) is most secure flow for mobile applications where client secret cannot be protected. Use this flow for applications that cannot store a client secret, such as native…

Salesforce scenario based interview questions part 1

In this blog, I am trying to cover scenario based questions that candidate will be facing during the interviews. Before we start with the questions, I would like you to go through the list of topic mentioned here. Targeted audience is Salesforce developer or consultant with 3+ years of experience. Apex TriggersApex DML limitsSOQL Most of candidates prepare theoretically before appearing for…

Composite Graph API – Salesforce

Salesforce provides the capability to execute a series of requests in a single Rest API call. We can use the output of one request as input to subsequent requests. Let’s take an example, We want to create an account, contact, and opportunity in a single call. Using a simple Rest API, we have to do 3 different calls.

First, call to create an account

The second call to create a contact, where we…

Document Upload Rest API Salesforce

Document upload is a crucial functionality nowadays while doing cross-system integrations. Often you want to develop an Apex rest API that can quickly upload documents using API. Salesforce allows us to upload documents in binary format or base64 format.

Let’s start on how we can do it. The first step is you have to develop an Apex class that provides the Rest API. Once your Rest API is…

Salesforce Integration Basics

Integration is a challenging topic when we start learning new technology. Similar to Salesforce, many of us have a hard time understanding an Integration. I am trying to make Integration simplified through this post. Let’s take the below example to understand it better. John is a businessman who is a native English speaker. Tom is a businessman who is a native Spanish Speaker. John wants to have…

How to Implement OAuth 2.0 Web Server Flow in Salesforce?

OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization. We already discussed Username-Password and User-Agent flow in previous posts. Today, we will be going through the OAuth 2.0 Web Server flow. If we want to integrate an application hosted on a secure server with Salesforce, we can use Web Server flow. Refer to the below diagram to understand how authorization and authentication happens.

OAuth 2.0 User-Agent Flow With Implementation

OAuth protocol standards are well known in the industry for a long time. Today, we will be going through the OAuth 2.0 User-Agent flow. This flow is used while integrating salesforce with mobile or desktop-based applications. In order to understand this flow better, I have included a diagram that represents how authorization and authentication happens.

Implementation

To implement this…

OAuth 2.0 Username-Password Flow With Implementation.

OAuth2.0 flows are well known industry standards for authentication since long time. There are different variation of flows based on business requirement. We will be going through each OAuth flow in upcoming posts. Today let’s start with simplest OAuth flow, which is username-password flow. In order to understand this flow better, I have included a diagram which represent how authorization and…

Read my post on, What is OAuth 2.0, SAML and OpenID?

Identity is one of the most crucial part when it comes to multiple system communication, SSO or integration. We often hear words OAuth, SAML and OpenID. Many of us are not aware about what are these and use of it. Let us try to understand these terminologies and use of it. We will start with basic difference between Authentication and Authorization fist.

Authentication and Authorization basics