Category: Salesforce

  • Large Data Volumes (LDV) in Salesforce | FAQs | Interview Questions

    You would like to go through this useful cheat sheet for “Query and Search” optimization, few of this is discussed in this post as FAQ. 171 : How Standard Fields and Custom Fields related information is saved inside Salesforce Database? Is every Standard and Custom Object is created as a different Database table? Ans :…

  • Send Email with Generated PDF as attachment from Trigger – before Winter 16

    There may be scenario in Salesforce that you need to send a Visualforce page rendered as PDF as a part of Email Attachment. This will be very easy if you want to perform this using Controller or Extension class, we just have to call getContentAsPDF() method of PageReference class and use returned blob data as…

  • Step by step guide to Setup Federated Authentication (SAML) based SSO in Salesforce – Video Tutorial

    In this post, We will be dicussing how to setup Federated SAML based Authentication in Salesforce. SAML stands for “Security Assertion Markup Language” and it is Open standard for exchanging Authentication and Authorization between Systems. SAML based authentication is supported by all editions of Salesforce. User Validation can be initiated by any one of below two…

  • Introduction to Flexible page aka Lightning Page with example

    Display Visualforce page only in Salesforce1 mobile application and not in desktop version

  • Call Salesforce REST API from Apex

    Use Apex to call Salesforce REST API with sample source code

  • Salesforce REST API Playground

    What is REST API ? In my words, Getting data from Other System or Same System using HTTP request is known as REST API. If you know, how website works, you know REST API. Before REST API, there was SOAP request which needed lots of configuration and very tightly coupled. If you make any modification…

  • Visualforce Remote Objects

    One of the exciting feature of Spring14 release is introduction of “Visualforce Remote Objects”. You can say its actually replacement of JavaScript Remoting. Why do we need “Visualforce Remote Objects” when we already have “JavaScript Remoting” ? Well, here are few advantages of “Visualforce Remote Objects” : No need to write Controllers, Everything can be…

  • FAQ and Best Practices of Test Classes in Apex

    Here I am going to share few answers related to Test Classes, which is being asked many times to me by novice Programmers. Please feel free to post Comments if your question is not answered here. I will try my best to add those Questions in this article. If you want to learn Test Class…

  • Chatter – Collaboration in Cloud

    Few Years back, When Chatter was introduced in Salesforce there were many critics on this product. Many Experienced analyst suggested that why do we need Social application inside enterprise application ? Today, I can’t even imagine Salesforce without Chatter. Its more than just Social, Its all about Communication in Team, Visibility, Collaboration. Success of any…

  • Client side Templating using Underscore.js and JQuery

    Recently, I ran into requirement where I was getting JSON response and needed to render it on my Mobile application. I had two Options, Server side processing and Client side Templating. I studied and checked both way ; came to conclusion on using Client side Templating. There are many plugins and libraries available however there…