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Introduction to HTML Web Components

posted by Jitendra on February 3, 2019February 3, 2019 under category Salesforce and tagged as HTML 5, Lightning Web Component, Web Components with 4 Comments

Pillars of HTML Vanilla Web Components

Modern browsers have become so advanced and powerful that there is almost no or minimal need of Javascript libraries these days. There was time when web developers rely heavily on frameworks like JQuery, Angular or React. Same for Salesforce, when it launched Aura framework in 2014.

In last 5 years, web browsers have evolved so much that we need to revisit and check ourselves that do we really need libraries or frameworks for every small functionalities ? Considering rich feature set browsers, Salesforce already revisited aura framework and decided that it’s time to make it more lightweight and use native browser capabilities as much as possible. Welcome Lightning Web Components !!! Before we jump into ocean of Lightning Web Components, it’s important to understand what is supported by browsers natively ? Out of many features supported by modern browsers, one of most important one is Web Component.

Below are 4 pillars of Web Components

Templates
Custom Element
Shadow DOM
Imports

Get Current User Id in Salesforce

posted by Jitendra on February 2, 2019October 22, 2019 under category Lightning, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce and tagged as Apex, code snippet, Lightning component, Lightning Web Component, LWC with 1 Comment

How to get Current Logged in user Id in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Component and Formula fields in Salesforce

Quick Code Snippets of how to get Current logged in user ids in Salesforce

Apex

System.debug('Current User Id - '+UserInfo.getUserId());

Visualforce

<apex:page>
  <h1>Visualforce Page</h1> 
   <p>UserId: {!$User.Id}</p>
   <p>User Email: {!$User.Email}</p>
</apex:page>

Aura Component

let currentUser = $A.get("$SObjectType.CurrentUser.Id");
Console.log(currentUser);

Lightning Web Components (LWC)

Using wire

import USER_ID from '@salesforce/user/Id';
import NAME_FIELD from '@salesforce/schema/User.Name';
import EMAIL_FIELD from '@salesforce/schema/User.Email';

Formula Fields

$User.Id

Docker Cheat sheet

posted by Jitendra on January 25, 2019March 21, 2019 under category Salesforce and tagged as container, docker, MySQL, pgadmin, phpmyadmin with Leave a comment

Frequently used docker commands and cheatsheet

Refer this url to get official cheat sheet for docker commands. Below are some of frequently used commands by me

Find all docker images installed on system

docker images

Find container id of currently running dockers

docker ps

Stop or kill running container

docker kill <container id from above command>

Defining pipe delimited separator in Mulesoft 3 & 4

posted by Jitendra on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 under category Mulesoft and tagged as Integration, Mulesoft 3, Mulesoft 4 with 1 Comment

How to use Pipe delimiter as separator in Mulesoft 3 and 4

Mulesoft 3

As discussed in previous post, to use pipe operator as separator. Navigate to Reader Configuration of Transformation message component

Use pipe delimited file to upsert record in Mulesoft 3

posted by Jitendra on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 under category Integration, Mulesoft and tagged as Integration, Mulesoft, Mulesoft 3 with Leave a comment

Use Mulesoft to upsert record in Salesforce using Pipe delimited file

Processing Comma Separated file is out of box but what if text file is delimited using comma.

In this post, we will read Pipe delimited file and upsert record in Salesforce. Instead of upserting record in Salesforce, you can do anything else you want to.

This is how final job will look like :

Send Salesforce Survey Without Code

posted by Jitendra on October 21, 2018October 22, 2018 under category Salesforce and tagged as Flow, Point and Click, Process builder, Survey with 19 Comments

Use Flow & Process builder to send customer satisfaction survey on case close

Salesforce Survey is available in Health Cloud & Financial Service Cloud otherwise its paid. Community Cloud is also required to use Survey. If you need to practice Survey, create a 30 day trial org from this URL (mentioned in this trailhead module). One Survey can be created and used in Enterprise and Unlimited edition, so if you need only one survey then its free. In my case, I had to send same question to every customer on Case close , so it was free.

Prerequisite to use Salesforce Survey

Step 1 – Enable & create Community. Once community setup is done, we would need to activate it. Community can be created by any template. It can be blank as well, if it’s being created only for survey.

Step 2 – Enable Salesforce survey by navigating to Admin setup. You would need to select Community, which would be used by Survey to compute public unique link.

Salesforce - Enable Survey — Salesforce – Enable Survey

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Build a Salesforce DX Plugin in 15 Min

posted by Jitendra on September 14, 2018November 19, 2018 under category Salesforce and tagged as Dreamforce, Salesforce DX, sfdx, Slideshare with 1 Comment

My Dreamforce Session to create a Salesforce DX plugin in 15 minutes

Before deploying metadata in Sandbox of production, have you felt that how great it would be to generate configuration workbook ? Or compare sandboxes for difference ? Or check if fields are used on any page layouts or not ? Dear reader, you are in need of custom Salesforce DX plugin.

You heard it right, Salesforce DX allows custom plugin development. So now question is, how do you connect to Salesforce Org ? Do you need to know about OAuth or Single Sign On (SSO) ?

Complete source code is available on my Github repository here. Continue reading “Build a Salesforce DX Plugin in 15 Min”

Read Query Parameter in Lightning Component

posted by Jitendra on September 3, 2018September 14, 2018 under category Salesforce and tagged as Lightning component, Release, Summer 18 with 10 Comments

Launch Lightning Component using formula field and also read query parameter in Salesforce Lightning Component

Before Summer 18, to read parameter in Lightning Component, we had to wrap Lightning Component in Lightning Application. After Summer 18, it has changed for good.

In this blog post we would create a formula field to launch Lightning Component (yes, you read it right). And then we would read URL parameter in Lightning Component using pageReference provided by interface lightning:isUrlAddressable.

Create a formula field on Account to launch Lightning Component and read its parameter. Continue reading “Read Query Parameter in Lightning Component”

Frequently Used Git Commands

posted by Jitendra on August 22, 2018December 10, 2018 under category Tech Tips and tagged as Git with 1 Comment

Most frequently used Git commands by developers

Set Git to store credentials

Below command can be executed from anywhere in your system.

git config --global credential.helper wincred

Turn off Warning _LF will be replaced by CRLF_

git config core.autocrlf true
or
git config --global core.autocrlf true

In Unix systems the end of a line is represented with a line feed (LF). In windows a line is represented with a carriage return (CR) and a line feed (LF) thus (CRLF). when you get code from git that was uploaded from a unix system they will only have an LF. Continue reading “Frequently Used Git Commands”

Summary of Attachment, Document, Content Library and Files in Salesforce

posted by Jitendra on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018 under category Salesforce and tagged as Attachment, Chatter Files with 1 Comment

Comparing between Attachment, Document, Content Library and Files in Salesforce

Summary :

Files is new way to store file in Salesforce
Content from external file service like Google, Box appears in Files
Files from Content Library displayed in file
CRM Content Library cannot be created in Lightning experience yet
Attachment and Files are two different objects, so two different related lists.
Attachment can be viewed in Lightning in Notes & Attachment related list
Attachments cannot be created in Lightning Experience, we should not use Attachments in future
To migrate existing Attachment to Files, use this AppExchange from Salesforce Labs
Document tab is not available in Lightning Experience
Documents should be replaced by File
Files yet does not support being used as attachment in Email Templates. If you are using Document in Email template, then keep it in Document
CRM Content delivery not available in Lightning but File can be shared with external user using Link
External user can only view or download file but cannot edit or update
File supports versioning
File can be related with multiple records.
File supports granular level sharing. It would be shared with anyone who has access to parent record. If you want to share with broad audience, it can be shared on chatter.

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