Amit Goyal

Salesforce DX [Develper Experience] Introduction

2017-10-08T03:22:00.001-07:00

Hi All,

This is my first post about SFDX as I planned with you, this is an introductory post as per my understanding, please feel free to contact if you have some correction / updates or any other scenarioes which you want me to cover.

Pre-Requisite is Get Started with Salesforce DX to install the Force.com CLI and related software and some knowledge of GitHub.

What is SFDX [Salesforce Developer Experience]?

A new experience for Developer / Coder to develop application faster and test in a separate organization or individual test environment same as in developer sandbox.

One of the most important changes with Salesforce DX is that, by externalizing more of the metadata and the org shape, we can shift the app’s “source of truth” from the Salesforce org to a version control system. This standard source-driven development approach has been used by developers for years, and it’s now a core part of the Salesforce developer experience.

Another key innovation for Salesforce DX is something we call the scratch org. The scratch org is a brand new org type built specifically for developers and automation. It’s ephemeral, built quickly from your source and metadata, and makes it easy to build your app consistently over and over again, which is great for team collaboration and test automation.

It’s worth noting that scratch orgs aren’t a replacement for sandboxes. Sandboxes are an important part of the larger development lifecycle, and work with our new source-driven development process as the destination for packages built directly from source. All sandbox types, from developer to full, offer the ability to act as user acceptance testing (UAT) and staging environments of the production org.

This following link of Salesforce Blog could get you more idea about SFDX:

Salesforce Blog for DreamForce 2016 Session Recording for SFDX

This above article from Salesforce has a recorded session and article from Dreamfore 2016, which could be more helpful for you.

Salesforce has provided a powerful tool for learning and for getting started on SFDX, here is the source which will help you to setup and install your machine for SFDX:
Get Started with Salesforce DX

Dev Hub?
A Developer Hub (Dev Hub) provides you and your team with the ability to create and manage scratch orgs. Scratch orgs are temporary Salesforce environments where you do the bulk of your development work in this new source-driven development paradigm.

Scratch Orgs?Salesforce DX introduces a new type of Salesforce environment, the scratch org, a source-driven and disposable deployment of Salesforce code and metadata. Scratch orgs are fully configurable, allowing developers to emulate different editions with different features and preferences, playing a critical role in driving developer productivity and collaboration during the development process. They can also be used as part of automated testing and the implementation of a full continuous integration suite.

How to create Dev Hub Org?
To create a Dev Hub Environment, click hereFor App Development hands on with Salesforce DX, click here

How to manage Scratch Orgs?

We could do create and delete scratch org from Force.com CLI and from Dev-Hub we could manage scratch orgs as well. Here is the screen shot for Dev-Hub.

some commands for start up:

-> Create a Dev-Hub org first.

-> Authorize the devhub by web login flow:
sfdx force:auth:web:login -d -a DevHub

here -d defines that the org by which u will login is a devhub org. without -d that will be some sandbox or other org from which u will retrieve the project or so.

-> open you devhub organization:
sfdx force:org:open -u DevHub

-> view all orgs:
sfdx force:org:list
sfdx force:org:list —verbose

-> create a SFDX project on your local machine:
sfdx force:project:create -n geolocation

-> Go to the geolocation project folder

-> Create a scratch org:
sfdx force:org:create -s -f config/project-scratch-def.json -a GeoAppScratch

Note: At the time of creating scratch org to test your project, there should be many things you should have in your mind. What about provisioned features, communities, applications, permissions, data and lot of things. I will try to cover that as much I can in my next posts.

-> Open the Scratch org:
sfdx force:org:open

-> view authentication information:
sfdx force:org:display --targetusername

-> set default user by using username:
sfdx force:config:set defaultusername=amitgoyal09@gmail.com

set default use by using alias:

sfdx force:config:set defaultusername=devorg

Useful References:
Force.com CLI

Salesforce DX Development Model
App Development with Salesforce DX
Continuous Integration Using Salesforce DX
Git and GitHub Basics

Salesforce DX Setup Guide

Wade Wegner Blog for SFDX

In next step, i will share some scenarios and important steps as discussed in my previous post.

Thanks for reading, stay connected.

Thanks.
Amit Goyal
Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com
Skype: amitgoyal09

Knowledge Sharing for SFDX & GitHub [Version Control System]

2017-10-06T07:04:00.001-07:00

Hello Friends,

After a long time I am going to start blogging on SFDX and Github.

Please let me know if you need some other scenario to consider or any other topic which you like me to include.

What is SFDX, Dev Hub?

How to create Dev Hub Org?

What is Scratch Org and How to manage Scratch Orgs?

What could be do with scratch org and how could we create scratch org?

How could we start working on SFDX and helpful resources?

List of steps and commands for the following scenarios?

Pre-Requisites is Github Account and some knowledge of Github.

Retrieve Project from Salesforce, Convert in SFDX

How to enable provisioned feature for scratch org

What Is features and which is best source to get more information

Enabling Features for Scratch Org

How to manage getting permissions in scratch org and considerations

Implementation of first Consideration for permission-set

push to Github

Retrieve Project from Salesforce, Convert in SFDX

Enabling Features for Scratch Org

How to manage getting permissions in scratch org - second consideration

How to make changes in Scratch org

How to pull the changes in local project

How to acknowledge changes in local actual project and in scratch org

How to do Version Control

push on Github

Retrieve SFDX Project from VCS - Github

Create Scratch Org and Deploy project in SFDX

Manage permissions and Data in Scratch Org

How to work and manage project in Scratch org

Acknowledge changes

Pull changes in local project

push on Github

Problem which I am facing with SFDX.

Thanks.

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

SmartScheduler - A Field Service Application [SalesForce Classic with Bootstrap, SalesForce1 Application] with Barcode Scanner, Image Capture/Upload and E-Signature

2016-07-06T13:45:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

I have built a Field Service Application for Managing Cases, Work-Orders and WorkOrderLineItem.

Based on that Work-Order and Work-OrderLineItem, I am creating jobs and jobsubmissions.

In this application, I have built a SalesForce Classic Application to create and manage workorders. A Salesforce1 Application and optionally Salesforce Public Site, for Field Technician to submit the work-orders which have functionality to attach the photos by capture or upload, Barcode Scanner and E-Signature.

The Cases could be created by Email, Phone, Calendar or manually which could be converted to work-order if required field service than the work-order could be managed, assign/schedule for field technician.

Here are some screen-shots for the Field-Technician Application:

Google-Map: for the route, distance in miles based on the Address and Gelocations. Onclick of the given displayed on the tooltip, Technician could see the Job Detail.

See All Jobs:

Job Detail:

Process Job-Submissions:

At the time of job-submission, field-technician can capture/select the images to upload, Scan Barcodes and take E-Signatures from the client.

Barcode Scanning:

Uploading Attachments:

E-signature:

Please let me know your views on this if any of you have some suggestions for this application. I have built this application just for a good practice and learning for Application Development Concepts as a managed package and for Salesforce App-Exchange consideration implementation.

As Salesforce has introduced its own Lightning Field Service Application recently so I dropped this idea to place on AppExchange.

Thanks All for reading, Happy Coding and Be in touch for good work.

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

Overlay Screen on Visualforce Page without any CSS or Plugin

2016-03-31T14:05:00.001-07:00

Hi All,

My todays post is related to the standard solution for Overlay Screen, I have suffered a lot whenever I got some implementation for the Overlay screen because I did that with CSS and so many things to remember and apply in this. Recently I have found a standard solution for the Overlay screen , which is not required to apply any CSS and no headache to apply the validation and Error message from Apex; we could do that through simple javascript functions.

Take an Example: Here I have a button, which will trigger a javascript function to display the popup screen.

Onclick of the button, we will get a overlay screen like the given snapshot.

We could bind the inputtext or inputfields as well in case we need to accept some picklist or lookup values etc. Onchange of the textboxes we could validate the value and assign in a javascript variable. Onclick of Ok button it will call a javascript function which will validate the values and call actionfunction to perform the logic in apex controller. Onclick of cancel it will simply close the overlay screen. The performance is better and faster in comparison to custom overlay screen.

When you will press ok, you could see a message for success of the logic like in the image given below.

Check the code below:

Visualforce Page:

Apex Controller:

Hope this will be helpful for you. Happy Coding J

Feel free to contact if you have anything in which I could help you.

Thanks,

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

ActionFunction is not calling the actionmethod on Visualforce Page: Issue, Approach and Solution

2016-03-18T05:14:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

Recently I faced an issue at the time of developing a dynamic and advanced visualforce page with a custom template and standardstylesheets=”false”. By the way these parameters were not related to the issue but I am just mentioning my implementation in consideration.

The Scenario is, I am having a command button or html button, onclick of that I am calling a js function and from that js function I am doing something on the visualforce page like setting value of some DOM Component and styling etc… After that I am calling my actionfunction to call an Action Method which is connected to a function in my Apex Controller.

Code Example:

actionstatus id="status1" startText="Processing..."

actionFunction name="saveRecord" status="status1" action="{!SaveRecord}" reRender="errMsg"

HTML Button tag with type="button" and onclick="saveRecord (); return false;"
OR commandButton onclick=" saveRecord (); return false;

The Issues is, onclick of the button my js function is getting called, from that js function my actionfunction is getting called instead of that reloading the page. I solved the reloading by putting return false on my button at the time of calling the javascript function. I could see the status in my UI but that actionfunction still not calling the actionmethod. I am able to see the console logs before calling the actionfunction and after calling the actionfunction with no js error. I am able to see the actionstatus but there is no entry in the debug log for my save method call. I tried by replacing the apex function by thinking may be some error in apex function which is doing something wrong but nothing worked.

Strange was I haven’t found specific solution for this issue in my search anywhere so I applied the following approach to find the cause of issue.

Approach to find the cause: I removed all my visualforce code and placed one section by another and found that in a Selectlist I directly reference a lookup field in value parameter, when I was placing that portion, my button is not working.

Solution: I removed that direct reference and used a string parameter instead. Onchange of that selectlist I populated the value of the string to the lookup field and my button starts working, means the actionfunction is calling the action method now.

Suggestion: Directly referencing the lookup field or Id on the visualforce page could cause unexpected behavior in your functionality sometime not all the time so try avoiding that.

Thanks,

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

Adding Picklist values conditionally on the Visualforce page

2016-03-04T12:40:00.001-08:00

Hi All,

Thanks for appreciating my previous blog posts and sorry for the delay for in my new blogpost.

Today I am sharing with you, how can we add some picklist value on the visualforce page conditionally.

Scenario, Like if you have some requirement in which you don’t want to accept new record with some status or picklist value but you want to display that for existing records. You can’t consider inputField in that case as well. So the simple, easier and solution with less effort is:

Create a list in your Apex Controller and display on your Visualforce page with apex:selectlist and apex:selectoptions, so that all required field will be there and add the additional value by using apex:SelectOption with itemDisabled property by define the condition.

One more thing, I wanna share and ask, we have a rendered attribute for the apex:SelectionOption but I were not getting that property functional in my practice, so if anyone knows something about the reason, please share with me.

I will get back to you with my next post soon. Happy Coding J

Feel free to contact if you have anything in which I could help you.

Thanks,

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

Polling System - Component Using Lightning Design System and Challenges with RemoteObjects

2016-01-23T13:02:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

My today’s post is related to Polling System - Component, I made this polling system component using Lightning Design System so that we could display multiple polls together on a single page based on our design like vertically or horizontally or as this is a component we could use it on multiple pages by using the same component [As you all must know the use of Visualforce Component].

Challenges with RemoteObjects:

While developing this component, I face some challenges which I want to share with you all, like as I have just started using RemoteObjects in this month so it’s a new experience and fun for me. I tried to use RemoteObjects in Components but I was not able to do that as we could use that only in the page.

So I built the component by using Apex and tried to use the RemoteObjects on the page to the get the list of polls and pass the ids [User-Id, Poll-Id and Serial-Number or you should say Record-Number to manage the unique DOM element ids] to the component through that list in the RemoteObjects callback but that is also possible.

Reason: The reason is RemoteObjects are page centric so anyhow we could not use the RemoteObjects with the Visualforce Components; it was my finding for this week. Let me know if I am wrong somewhere, I will be more than happy if you rectify my mistake if I am making any.

Let’s come back to polling component which I made:

I have built the 4Options and 2Options polling for my Demo, if you have any more or less options requirement than you could modify the implementation based on that as well. Here is screenshot of the Polling-Page on which I have used the Polling-Component.

You could use this component with content at any place in section or could display the multiple polls on a single page vertically or horizontally, that is all based on your design like Grid or Table whatever you need to apply.

After selecting the option, you will need to click on the Submit button to poll. After submitting the Poll with display the result the result like in the following screen:

I am planning some more changes to display the results in more meaningful and efficient way, let me know if you have some idea on this.

If you are having some requirement or planning to try this or need help to know the technique or guidance, feel free to put your suggestions/comments/ask questions or connect with me.

Happy Coding J

Thanks,

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

Public Site - New Design with Lightning Design System and Related Stuff

2016-01-20T11:44:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

Today I am sharing a lot of work I did so far, it’s Salesforce Public Site which I have built by using a combination of Lightning Design System and AngularJS, Remote Objects, Visualforce and Apex Controller.

Like I shared my Web-To-Lead Form, [which I built by using Lightning Design System and AngularJS, Remote Objects on Visualforce Page] with you in my last post. This is an enhanced for that. I am using that Web-To-Lead Form on this Public Site as Enquiry-Form Menu in the Top Right Section.

I have connected my old public site [Visualforce page and Apex], new public site with Lightning Design System and My Blog with each other so that you could navigate to check the Demo and my work.

Here is a screenshot of my blog and the navigation:

Live Demo: Blog

Here is the screenshot of my public site – New Design with navigation and menus:

Live Demo: Public Site - New Design

I have given a functionality to post comment through this site, so you could put your comments, after commenting on this you will get a email if comment successfully submitted without errors, it any error than you could see that message on the page. Please comment, what you think about the pages and your views on this so I could add the functionality whatever you need to see.

I could help you with that if you need any specific functionality or guidance regarding that. If you will click on the comment button, you will see a section for comment as in the following screen:

Here is the screenshot of my public site – Old Design with menus:

Live Demo: Public Site - Old Design

All three screens are linked with each other so you could test the design, flow and functionality. Let me know your thoughts on this or how could I improve as per your views.

In the next step to the Public Site – New Design, I will share with you the courses which I could offer with my Online Training's and the Demos and Applications which I have built and whatever I could share with you.

Happy Coding :)

Regards,

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

WebToLead Form by using Lightning Design System, RemoteObjects and AngularJS on Visualforce Page

2016-01-15T04:02:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

I have built a form by using AngularJS and Remote Objects with Lightning Design System, It was really a fun to develop this functionality. We have two options while working with Lightning Design System as per my present knowledge.

1.) We could apply classes to our Visualforce DOM Elements from the Lightning Design System CSS to avoid plenty of work and changes.

2.) We could use Remote-Objects to connect our page with the Objects and Applying JS Validation on the data and fire DML actions.

In the second option we could have some challenges and bit time consuming for fresher’s like me for this page but as this is for the study, it’s pretty much interesting to work with AngularJS and Remote Objects with Lightning Design System.

Below is the screenshots of the form which I have built.

I have created a header, footer as Visualforce component to display on my Web-To-Lead page.

You could check the live Functionality on the link given below:

Web-To-Lead Live Link

Let me know if you need any guidance on this. I will keep posting new and interesting things like this. Hope you will like it. Happy Coding J

Regards,

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

Lightning Application and Components: ManageContacts

2016-01-12T11:21:00.001-08:00

Hi All,

As I promised in my last post, I have chosen my topic on Lightning Components with Lightning Design System. I build a Lightning Application by using several lightning components for Managing Contacts.

I am using Lighting Design System package in my component for design:

ContactListProcess.cmp: On this I have displayed a button “New Contact”, and a List of Contacts with some actions for Edit and Delete contacts. For Displaying the contacts in the list, I am using ContactProcess.cmp like we have ExpenseTracker app in the “Lightning Components Developer’s Guide”.

On Click of this “New Contact” button I am rendering a Form to create a new contact with Submit and Cancel buttons. On click of submit button it will create a contact and will add in the Contact list below and on click of Cancel button it will hide the form again. I am using the inputLookup component on this form to provide the Lookup functionality. The source and reason is specified below in my post.

After filling up the form, I have saved the record and got in my contact list.

On click of edit button, the application will display the form which we are displaying on click of “New Button” and populate all the values from the selected record to the above form. So that we could make changes and save the contact.

On Click of delete, we are simply deleting the record from the list and from the database.

Here is a list of resources for that application:

Resources	Description
ManageContacts Bundle
ManageContactsLightning.app	The top-level component that contains all other components
ContactListProcess Bundle
ContactListProcess.cmp	A collection of Lightning input components to collect user input and To Display a List of Contacts
ContactListProcessController.js	A client-side controller containing actions to handle user interactions on the ContactListProcess
ContactListProcessHelper.js	A client-side helper functions called by the controller actions
ContactListProcessRenderer.js	To Render the changes on Click of the New Contact Button like for display/hide the input form
ContactProcess Bundle
ContactProcess.cmp	A collection of Lightning output components to display data from contact records and related actions
ContactProcessController.js	A client-side controller containing actions to handle user interactions on the display of the contact list
Apex Class
NewContactController. apxc	Apex controller that loads data, inserts, or updates an contact record
Event
NewContactEvent.evt	The event fired when an contact item is edited from the display of the contact list
ContactDeleteEvent.evt	The event fired when an contact item is deleted from the display of the contact list
Other Resources
inputLookup Component	As with Lightning in Winter-16, we don’t have the inputLookup component yet, so I found a resource online by Enrico Murru, which I have applied. It’s again a bundle of resources and will require some customization in its code like changes in the controller and some extra events based on your functionality. Thanks Enrico Murru for this nice component.

If you wish to try your hands, I have given the required list of resources above and for inputLookup component; you could get it from the link below:

inputLookup Component on Developer Community

Hope this will be helpful for you. If you need any guidance, you could contact me anytime. I will be happy to help.

It will be little Trichy to listen the events and getting parameters from that events but the ExpenseTracker application could help you to get the functional tips.

My Next post will be on Lightning Design System / Lightning Connect / Lightning Experience / Lightning Components or a mix of these topics with Visualforce.

I will try to post something related to the certifications which are recently introduces by salesforce as many of you asked me in last some days.

Thanks for the nice response on my posts. Let me know if you need to hear on something specific. I will try to prioritize that topic.

For Code or any help, feel free to contact me. Keep trying your hands on Salesforce updates and Lightning. Happy coding J

Regards,

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

Understanding Salesforce Classic, Lightning Experience, Lightning Component, Lightning Connect and Lightning Design System

2016-01-05T09:28:00.000-08:00

Hi All,

First of all, A very Happy New Year 2016 to All of you, may god fulfill all your wishes which could will bring happiness for you, your family and near & dear ones and for the society and community.

Thanks for responding for my last post regarding the “SalesForce Development / SFDC Online Trainings [Lightning / Platform Developer / Admin / Developer / Advance Developer]”.

I received few questions regarding the difference between all of this and mainly as a beginner on Lightning, many of them were for the difference between the Lightning Experience, Lightning Component, Lightning Connect and Lighting Design System.

Salesforce Classic: It's the platform which we are using from long time as standard, Salesforce just named to classify between the new User Interface/Experience and old User Interface/Experience.

Lightning Experience: Lightning Experience is the new, slick user interface for the desktop browser UI. The initial release of the new user interface is geared towards sales reps with an intuitive interface that allows sales reps to work more efficiently.

The dashboard and charts in Lightning Experience behave much like Wave where changes in the chart recalculates in real time. While the new interface is easy to enable, It may not be suited for everyone as there are some missing functionalities at this point of time. In the future releases salesforce would eliminate those gaps, but keep safe harbor statement in mind.

The Initial release with Winter-16, is mainly focused for Sales Reps and with some extra features based on Opportunity like Opportunity Board. With Spring-16 [Safe harbor] we could get some exciting feature for Case Objects [Service Related] and Opportunity Board will be called “Opportunity Kanban”. For More Information refer to “salesforce_spring16_release_notes”.

For Enabling Lightning Experience, go to your developer edition and Setup, In the Top Left side menu, there will be an option called “Lightning Experience”. You will need to activate some settings/features as per the Pre-Requisite.

For using the Lightning Experience you could access by following - The Pre-Requisite and followed by enabling Lightning Experience using the newly provided Cool Spinner/Switcher action.

After enabling it, you will get a cool switcher by which you can switch anytime between the Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience.

Switcher from Salesforce Classic

Warning Message for Switching to Lighting Experience

Switcher from Lightning Experience

Warning Message for Switching to Salesforce Classic

If you need to use Lightning Apps or Lightning Component or Lightning Component Tabs then you will have to register a domain in salesforce from My Domain in Domain Management option from setup. I will try to cover those tipic in more detail in my next post or you could also contact me for guidance on this or if you would like to try your hands on trailhead. The trailhead link is mentioned below.

Getting Started with Salesforce and Lightning

Note: We could not use one/one.app for using salesforce1 because it will display the Lightning Experience Interface only if the Lightning Experience is enabled for the user/org from Winter-16 otherwise it will display the Run-Time Exception.

In short, Salesforce Classic the Standard User Interface which we are using from long time and Lightning Experience is the new User Interface which have the same Styling and Experience which we have for mobiles with extended functionality to improve performance and usability.

Lighting Component: We could take a simple example like we could build a Visualforce component in standard way and display on multiple pages. We could build Lightning Component and we could use them as in Standalone Lightning App, Lighting Component Tab which we could use in SalesForce1 Navigations and as a tab in Lightning Experience in some Custom Application or in Salesforce1 and Objects Actions etc… For more information you could refer the following modules in salesforce trailhead:

Lightning Component

Lighting Connect: We could use this to connect salesforce with any external application by using external object and releationship. For more information you could refer the following modules in salesforce trailhead:

Lightning Connect

Lightning Design System: This is a collection of CSS framework, Icons, Fonts, and Design Tokens, which could be used in Visualforce Page development to match the UI with the Lighting Experience while developing a visualforce page for an application.

Lightning Design System

I will try to plan my next post about the Lightning Component, Lightning Connect and Lightning Design System in more detail, stay in touch to help each other.

I really like all the Lightning Features which we have got with the Winter-16 release and will get more in future. Keep sharing the knowledge and keep loving salesforce as I do. Feel free to contact me anytime if you have anything in which I could help you.

Thanks,

Amit Goyal

Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com

Skype: amitgoyal09

SalesForce Development / SFDC Online Trainings [Lightning / Platform Developer / Admin / Developer / Advance Developer]

2015-12-31T04:51:00.003-08:00

Hi All,

If anyone is looking for some professional to work on some project related to Salesforce1 / Lightning Component / Lightning Experience / App Builder than I could help you in that, also I am introducing new courses for the online training. Let me know if anyone interested.

New Courses:
1.) Platform Developer-I
2.) SalesForce1
3.) SalesForce App Builder
4.) Lighning Experience
5.) Development for Lightning Experience
6.) Lightning Component & Development
7.) Lightning Design System
8.) Lightning Connect

Regular Courses:
1.) SalesForce Administrator
2.) SalesForce Developer
3.) SalesForce Advance Developer
4.) Sales Cloud
5.) Service Cloud

You could contact me by follwoing ways:
Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com
Skype: amitgoyal09
Mobile: +919899804929, +919509860791

Thanks,
Amit Goyal

SalesForce Release Updates in 15 for Administrators & Developers

2015-07-27T05:45:00.001-07:00

Hi Friends,

Today I am sharing some of the main SalesForce Release Updates in 15 for Administrators & Developers:

Administrative Changes:
---------------------------------

1.) Number of Custom Profiles Allowed:
To ensure better performance, your organization can have up to 1,500 custom profiles per user license type. If your organization has
too many custom profiles, consider using permission sets to grant additional permissions and access settings to the users who need
them.

2.) End of Support for JavaScript, iFrames, CSS, and Other Advanced Markup in HTML Area Home Page Components:

We are now enforcing the ban on unsupported code in HTML Area home page components. JavaScript, CSS, iframes, and other
unsupported markup is now removed when you edit and save an HTML Area home page component. A cleaned version is saved,
and all unsupported content is lost.

3.) Administrators Can Log in as Any User

4.) There are many changes in Process Builder like Reference System-Provided Values, After you deactivate a process, you no longer have to wait 12 hours before you delete it and improved the Process Builder user interface so it’s easier to manage versions, find and reference fields, create Chatter messages and more.

5.) There are many changes in Visual WorkFlow like Verify Picklist Values in a Flow, Verify Multi-Select Picklist Values in a Flow, After you deactivate a process, you no longer have to wait 12 hours before you delete it, Reference Global Variables in a Flow.

6.) Access Data Across Multiple Organizations with the Lightning Connect Salesforce Connector

Developer Console Changes:
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1.) Work with Lightning Resources in the Developer Console: To create Lightning resources, you must use a Developer Edition organization that has a namespace prefix.

Visualforce Changes:
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1.) Add Data Access to Your Visualforce Pages with Remote Objects (Generally Available)

- in: in, used for finding a value that matches any of a set of fixed values. Provide values as an array, for example, ['Benioff', 'Jobs', 'Gates'].

- nin: not in, used for finding a value that matches none of a set of fixed values. Provide values as an array, for example, ['Benioff', 'Jobs', 'Gates'].

- Here’s a query definition that searches for records that match any of several last names.

{

where:

{

LastName: { in: ['Benioff', 'Jobs', 'Gates'] }

}

2.) Customize Visualforce Maps with Custom Markers

icon="{! URLFOR($Resource.MapMarkers, 'moderntower.png') }" />

3.) Enrich Visualforce Maps with Info Windows:

4.) Accessibility: “*” Annotation in Labels for Required Fields Restored

5.) PageReference getContent() and getContentAsPDF() Methods Behave as Callouts

Apex Code Changes:
----------------------------

1.) Submit and Monitor Jobs for Asynchronous Execution with the Queueable Interface:

Getting an ID for your job: When you submit your job by invoking the System.enqueueJob method, the method returns the ID of the new job. This ID corresponds to the ID of the AsyncApexJob record. You can use this ID to identify your job and monitor its progress, either through the Salesforce user interface in the Apex Jobs page, or programmatically by querying your record from AsyncApexJob.

Chaining jobs: You can chain one job to another by starting a second job from a running job. Chaining jobs is useful if you need to do some processing that depends on another process to have run first.

Example
This example is an implementation of the Queueable interface. The execute method in this example inserts a new account.

public class AsyncExecutionExample implements Queueable {
public void execute(QueueableContext context) {
Account a = new Account(Name='Acme',Phone='(415) 555-1212');
insert a;
}
}

To add this class as a job on the queue, call this method:
ID jobID = System.enqueueJob(new AsyncExecutionExample());

AsyncApexJob jobInfo = [SELECT Status,NumberOfErrors FROM AsyncApexJob WHERE Id=:jobID];

Testing Queueable Jobs:

@isTest
public class AsyncExecutionExampleTest {
static testmethod void test1() {
// startTest/stopTest block to force async processes
// to run in the test.
Test.startTest();
System.enqueueJob(new AsyncExecutionExample());
Test.stopTest();
// Validate that the job has run
// by verifying that the record was created.
// This query returns only the account created in test context by the
// Queueable class method.
Account acct = [SELECT Name,Phone FROM Account WHERE Name='Acme' LIMIT 1];
System.assertNotEquals(null, acct);
System.assertEquals('(415) 555-1212', acct.Phone);
}
}

Note: The ID of a queueable Apex job isn’t returned in test context—System.enqueueJob returns null in a running test.

Chaining Jobs:

public class AsyncExecutionExample implements Queueable {
public void execute(QueueableContext context) {
// Your processing logic here
// Chain this job to next job by submitting the next job
System.enqueueJob(new SecondJob());
}
}

Queueable Apex Limits:

• The execution of a queued job counts once against the shared limit for asynchronous Apex method executions.
• You can add up to 50 jobs to the queue with System.enqueueJob in a single transaction.
• The maximum stack depth for chained jobs is two, which means that you can link a job only once and have a maximum of two jobs in the chain.
• When chaining jobs, you can add only one job from an executing job with System.enqueueJob.

Run More Future Methods and Callouts:

- The execution limits of future methods and callouts in an Apex transaction have increased to 50 methods and 100 callouts respectively. These limit increases enable you to do more with Apex without having to be restricted by the previous limits. For example, you might have transferred much of your long-running code to future methods that you call and run asynchronously from your main class. If you did many of these future calls in your class, you might have hit the limit of 10 future calls in one transaction. With the increased limit of 50 calls, you can make many more future calls without likely hitting this limit.

The following limits have increased.
Maximum number of methods with the future annotation allowed per Apex invocation changed From 10 To 50

Maximum number of callouts (HTTP requests or Web services calls) in a transaction changed From 10 To 100

Run More Tests in Sandbox and Developer Organizations:

The test execution limit for asynchronous tests has increased and you can now run twice as many tests in large sandbox or Developer Edition organizations.
For sandbox and Developer Edition organizations, the following test execution limit for asynchronous tests has increased.

Maximum number of test classes that can be queued per 24-hour period is changed to the greater of 500 or 20 multiplied by the number of test classes in the organization

There are some changes in Apex Trigger and Apex Support for some standard objects
There are some updates in some Methods and Properties and Added New Classes and Methods too

Refer Page: 257 in "SalesForce Winter-15 Release Notes" PDF for the Trigger and Apex Support for New Object & List of Added Classes and Methods and Updates

In Summer-15 Release Notes: Apex Changes:
1.) New Code Coverage Calculation for Multiline Statements
2.) Iteration Order for Maps and Sets Is Now Predictable
3.) Receive Debug Logs Predictably
4.) Location and Distance Variables Allowed in SOQL and SOSL Queries in Apex
5.) Reduced Access for Apex Classes Using with sharing Keyword
6.) See Apex Method Parameters at a Glance

Lightning Changes:
--------------------------

Force.com Canvas Apps Don’t Work in Salesforce1 if Lightning Components are Enabled
You can’t use Force.com Canvas apps in Salesforce1 if you enable Lightning components. Any Force.com Canvas apps in your organization will no longer work in Salesforce1 if you enable Lightning components.

Limited Set of Out-of-the-Box Components: The beta includes a very limited set of components.
Namespace Prefix Required: Your organization must have a namespace prefix required to develop Lightning components.

Open Source Aura Framework

The Lightning Component framework is built on the open source Aura framework. Aura is open sourced at https://github.com/forcedotcom/aura. You can build general-purpose Web apps hosted on your own server. Your apps can be completely independent of Salesforce and your data in Salesforce.

Note that the open source Aura framework has features and components that are not currently available in the Lightning Component framework. We are working to surface more of these features and components for Salesforce developers.

Person Accounts Are Now Packagable in managed and unmanaged packages.

1.) Standalone Lightning Apps (Generally Available)
2.) Some Changes in Lightning Components and Events, you could refer for the list to "SalesForce Summer-15 Release Notes" PDF

Thanks,

Amit Goyal

Automatically Submit Multiple Records to Approval through Apex

2015-07-24T13:10:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends,

Today I am sharing one code snippet with you to automatically submit multiple records to approval process through apex.

Firstly you need to setup the approval process on which object you want to submit the records for Approval.

Than through your Apex Controller or Trigger you could process the records and send that for Approval.

//Create a List of Approval.ProcessSubmitRequest
List requests = new List();

// Process your List on which you need to send the records for Approval, It could be direct list or you could process the list from you inner query or whatever list you want to process, In my example I have used the list of Opportunity from a trigger:

for(Opportunity opp: Trigger.New){
// Create a instance of Approval.ProcessSubmitRequest to add that to the list initialized above
Approval.ProcessSubmitRequest req = new Approval.ProcessSubmitRequest();

// Set the comment you want to add
req.setComments('Submitting request for approval');

// Set the object-id in the Approval.ProcessSubmitRequest instance
req.setObjectId(opp.Id);

//Add the instance to the list initialized above, before the for loop
requests.add(req);
}

// We need to capture the result of the approval, so initialize a list of Approval.ProcessResult
Approval.ProcessResult[] processResults = null;

// Apply Exception Handliing
try {
// The command Approval.process will submit all your record for Approval
processResults = Approval.process(requests);
}catch (System.DmlException e) {
System.debug('Exception Is ' + e.getMessage());
}

Point to Notice:
Sometimes our trigger doesn't submit our records for approval, so that time we need to check, whatever records we are submitting for Approval through our code, are they meeting the entry-level criteria successfully which we have defined in our approval process, so we have to apply the conditions and have to test it carefully.

You could ask me for any topic or any help if you need something specific, I will be happy to help you.

Thanks,

Amit Goyal

2015-02-10T02:14:00.001-08:00

Hi All,

I have cleared the following certifications:
ADM-201, Dev-401, Dev-501 Paper

If anyone of you are planning for online training, you could contact me, I provide salesforce online trainings for the following sections:

Salesforce Admin
Salesforce Developer
Salesforce Advance Developer

Salesforce Certification Preparation, in which I provide guidance about the implementation with concerning about governor limits, how to prepare and the helpful links to prepare.

Thanks,

Amit Goyal
Email: amitgoyal09@gmail.com
Skype: amitgoyal09

2015-02-09T04:00:00.003-08:00

Hi All,

Posting something after a long time :)

I have cleared the following certification this month.
SalesForce ADM-201 Certification
SalesForce DEV-501 {Advance Developer}, Multi-Choice Question Paper

The Advance Developer Paper require very basic to high level of knowledge, you should not take it lightly. Go through the following content for prepration:

501StudyNotes
Dev-501 Pod-casts and
Apex and Visualforce Developer Guide.

Thanks.

SalesForce Online and Class Room Trainings

2012-04-29T22:46:00.001-07:00

Hello All,

Going to start class-room trainings in jaipur.
SalesForce and PHP Online-Trainings are going on.
Contact me if interested.

Thanks,

New Year 2012 Wishes

2012-01-01T20:32:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year to All,
May this year brings lot of happiness with good health, wealth and Exiting Opportunities for all of us.

Link for Dev-401 Certification Exam

2011-12-28T07:52:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

I have got some useful link for DEV-401 Certification Exam prepration:

http://www.allaboutsfdc.com

http://www.forceprepare.com

also refer salesforce winter-12 release for updations.
or you can ask me for more detail by comments or for online training.
Register yourself by "Contact Me" link on my blog for online trainings.

Thanks,
Amit Goyal

New Feature on my Blog

2011-12-25T06:56:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

You can contact me from the "Contact Me" Link on the Top-Right Side Panel on my Blog.
Its a small demo of SalesForce Technology, so you can have Look n Feel of the power of SalesForce freedom at a small level.

Hope to get in touch with you all.
Merry christmas and Keep knowledge sharing.

Thanks,
Amit Goyal

Salesforce Developer 401 Certification Related Topics

2011-12-21T20:37:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

Want to become an SalesForce Certified Developer?

Here are some topics to be taken care of, which may help you to crack SalesForce Developer 401 Certification.

For that you should have to have firm knowledge about:

Winter-12 Release Updates
Sharing Rules / Org-Wide Default
Junction Object
Master-Detail / Lookup / Hierarchical relationships
Report / Report Types / Dashboards
Data Loader / Import Wizard and CLI Data Loader
Formula Fields
Analytical Snapshot
Workflows, Validation Rules
Approvals Processes (Unanimous / Parallel / Skipping Steps / Dynamic Routing)
Encrypted Fields / External Ids
Governor Limits with Winter-12
Setup Audit Trails
Standard Objects, Applications, Queues, Role and Hierarchy
VF Page, Component and Apex
Overview and Functioning of SalesForce Recruiting Application in most of the SalesForce Videos and PDFs.

This is a part of certification topics so keep surfing the net for better knowledge and kindly let me know if you get something new so the content can be helpful for others too.

Hope the Information shared is useful for you.
You can contact me for any query related to my posts, SalesForce Guidance, Online Training Freely.

Thanks,
Amit Goyal

Hello, Need Active Support by Viewers

2011-12-18T23:21:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

I am analyzing that more then 100 Viewer visits my blog in a day but no one is contributing anything. no comments, no share.

If my blog is missing something somewhere which is useful for you then please let me know so that we can help others and can get good connection here.

My some of upcoming posts are:

Differences in Spring-11 and Winter-12 Releases
Each topic in my Winter-12 Release Updates in Detail
Index for SalesForce 401 Certification
Useful Content for SalesForce 401 Certification
Some Guidelines for SalesForce 401 Certification
Some useful Tips and Question for SalesForce 401 Certification

I am continuously posting my day to day experiences this days on my blog but i am observing that probably it is not of your use.

Kindly support and discuss your queries with me so that i can step forward to make this blog useful.

Thanks,
Amit Goyal

Query Error: "System.QueryException: Non-selective query against large object type" in Trigger

2011-12-16T03:07:00.000-08:00

Topic in Detail: Sometime when we work with multiple event on task, event or idea object (I got the error on this objects, don’t have idea about others), we got this error.

Main Cause: Field or Data Indexing Related Problem

There can be some causes behind this error as much I have observed, Please update me if you have anything other than this.

Cause 1: The Field or Data is not indexed.

Solution 1:

When using a field in your "where" clause of a query, it's best to try to have that field indexed by checking the "external ID" checkbox when you define that field.

Note:

For every object, only a limited number of fields can be indexed: see the online help for the limit.
You can create maximum three External Ids in an Object.
The External Id field can be of only two Data Types (Text OR Number).

Cause 2: Null value in some field you are using in your query, related problem.

Solution2:

Use condition to skip the null values in your queries and if conditions carefully.
Keep event sections Separated and place check for null pointers carefully.

I resolved the exception in my code by this ways.

Please give you your valuable suggestions.

Rectify me if i am wrong somewhere.

Thanks,
Amit Goyal

An Introduction to Force.com Winter-12 release updates and Features

2011-12-15T04:26:00.000-08:00

A complete world of freedom on cloud, lets make the business freely on cloud

Force. Com Platform (Freedom for the world on Business Class)	New Release with lot of new features & Updates (Blessings Developers and Business Applications)

Force.com Editions-new Release in October-2011, “Winter-12”.

As we know the Force.com Platform has blessed the Force.com Developers with many freedoms and relaxations in Governor and Limits with the Summer-11 Release.

Force.com Platform has given many freedoms to the world so that the Force.com application can be integrated with any running in-house application.

1. Social Contacts: Salesforce is providing an Social Enterprise Solution by this key feature. We can now stay connected and get the updates from our contacts by their social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn too.

2. Database.Com: Database.com is included with force.com in Developer, Enterprise and unlimited Editions of SalesForce. It can be purchased as a standalone service when an application needs a database.

3. Permission-Sets: Permission-Sets in Winter-12 allow you to grant additional permissions to specific users. Permission-Sets allow granting additional permissions to a type of existing profile without modifying the profile.

4. Schema Builder: The Schema Builder provides a graphical view of salesforce objects and their relationships.

5. Chatter Rest API: The Chatter Rest API is a tool set for integrating chatter data with non-Salesforce applications.

6. Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support: JSON is used to import and export data using API. JSON is an Object Based Language to import and Export Data to or from Salesforce Application.

7. Cloud Based- Flow Designer: It is a cloud based flow designer for visual workflow is available as a better feature.It has a few button and three simple tabs which has all the elements that are used to create the flow. With the cloud based designer the number of elements and resources has been greatly reduced and reorganized to make it simpler and faster to build the flow which automates your business processes.

8. SiteForce: It is a Facility provided about SalesForce to customer that he can build his public site like other websites within some click and can place there salesforce data on the site. All the building of this website will be done in clicks.

9. Force.com Productivity Enhancements: There are several functionality provided by salesforce with Winter-12 released to enhance the productivity like default landing page, homepage tools, quick links, easy to build salesforce app and appExchange, and some more.

10. Data.com: Building on the functionality you are familiar with of Jigsaw, Data.com is providing several new features.

11. Chatter Enhancements: Salesforce is updating its chatter features and functionality day by day. So in this again its providing many exciting features which is easy to access and flexible.

Some more features are available with Salesforce, We will discuss all this features in detail in my upcoming posts.

12. SalesForce For Outlook Enhancements

13. Forecasts

15. Analytical Snapshot

In Addition to all of this features Apex has few of other updates too in Winter-12 such as,

New system methods: isBatch(), isFuture(), and isScheduled()

Allow for determination of the manner in which the code was invoked.

Used to execute different code if run is batch, part of an @future method, or via the Apex scheduler.

Raised Governor Limits for batch Apex and @future methods

SOQL queries raised from 100 to 200.

Code statements raised from 200,000 to 1000000

Heap Size raised from 3MB to 6MB

New @ReadOnly annotation for Web services and schedulable interface

Allows unrestricted database queries

Prevents any DML operations within request

API for asynchronous test runs (BETA)

Allows developers to create asynchronous test runs

Public Test Classes

Test classes no longer need to be private

Allow for creating reusable public test classes for common test data creation

Force.com Developer Console

Renamed and improved from the previous System Log Console

Continued improvement and addition of new tools
Hope the information given above is useful for you all as i personally feel it useful so i shared this with we all SalesForce Developer and aspirants.

I expect the same sharing process continues from you all.

Comment and Suggestion will be appreciable from my side.

Please rectify me if I am wrong somewhere in this post so that I can deliver and share the quality data with all.

For further information, Please refer Winter-12 Release Notes.
For further Dicussion, Please contact me through this blog itself by your valuable comments which i am expecting.

Thanks,
Amit Goyal

Regarding SalesForce Winter-12 Updates and Salesforce 401 Certification

2011-12-14T23:01:00.000-08:00

Hello All,

Stay tuned on my blog, i am going to share a lot of interesting features and updates regarding Force.com Winter-12 Release Updates, Governor Limits and Salesforce 401 Certification in the next few days.

Will need your precious comments and appriciable support.
This will be core salesforce features and certification discussion so stay tuned and share your views.

For further discussion and suggestions, you can contact me

Thanks,
Amit Goyal