Year: 2016

  • How to start career in Salesforce – applicable for Freshers as well

    I was owner of one of Training institute in Nagpur (India) named “Shivasoft” for almost 3 years. This is the reason few of you know me as a “Shivasoft”, some of you know me by my previous twitter handler “@ilovenagpur” as well. I was lucky enough that I had many bright and hard working students.…

  • Using Test.loadData to import records with relationship

    There are many resources and documents available around how to use Test.loadData to create test records in Apex class. As per best practice of writing Test classes in Apex, Its good idea to store master data (aka Seed, Reference data) in static resource and load it in Test classes using “Test.loadData” method. It will save lots…

  • Lightning Component for Wikipedia search

    Initially I thought creating Wikipedia Search component will be straight forward. I can simply use AJAX request from Lightning component to get result from Wikipedia using its REST API. Soon, I discovered about Content Security Policy in Lightning components developer guide. If we attempt to use AJAX or REST API in Lightning component then below error…

  • Override default loading message in Salesforce lightning application using template

    While developing Lightning component, all of us might have been noticed that default user interface for loading component looks like below image. Most of us, for sure will want to customize this loading message to match their Salesforce implementation theme. We can use “Lightning Template” to override this message to show something like below image.