SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Part 3: The Factory Method Pattern
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SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Part 3: The Factory Method Pattern

ByCoding With The Force Inc

What is the Factory Method Pattern? The factory method pattern allows you to create objects (or instantiate classes) without having to specify the exact class that is being created. Say for instance you have a service class that can be called by multiple object types and those object types each have their own object specific…

SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Part 2: Introduction to the Apex Common Library
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SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Part 2: Introduction to the Apex Common Library

ByCoding With The Force Inc

What is the Apex Common Library? The Apex Common Library is an open source library originally created by Andy Fawcett when he was the CTO of FinancialForce and currently upkept by many community members, but most notably John Daniel. Aside from its origins and the fflib_ in the class names, it is no longer linked…

SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Part 1: Introduction to the Separation of Concerns Design Principle
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SoC and the Apex Common Library Tutorial Series Part 1: Introduction to the Separation of Concerns Design Principle

ByCoding With The Force Inc

What is the Separation of Concerns Design Principle? Basically separation of concerns is the practice of putting logical boundaries on your code. Putting these logical boundaries on your code helps make your code easier to understand, easier to maintain and much more flexible when it needs to be altered (and every code base ever has…

Salesforce Development Tutorial(LWC): How to Generate a Word Document from a Lightning Web Component
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Salesforce Development Tutorial(LWC): How to Generate a Word Document from a Lightning Web Component

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[sm-youtube-subscribe] Why Create an LWC that can Generate Word Documents? This is a little more self explanatory than many of the blog posts I do, but let’s go over some things. You typically wanna create this because the business has a need (for one reason or another) to generate a word doc. I’ve had businesses…

Salesforce Admin Tutorial: How to create Confetti Celebrations and use the Trailshread Audio Player

Salesforce Admin Tutorial: How to create Confetti Celebrations and use the Trailshread Audio Player

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Why would we create Celebrations or use the Trailshred Audio Player at all? To be honest idk dawg, maybe just to spice up your life a little bit and have some fun? You could make a super sweet easter egg for your Salesforce org. Maybe you wanna boost your Sales teams morale with something interesting…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use the Safe Navigation Operator in Apex to reduce the amount of null checking in your codebase
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use the Safe Navigation Operator in Apex to reduce the amount of null checking in your codebase

ByCoding With The Force Inc

Why use the Safe Navigation Operator?? My guy, this is the best thing Salesforce has added to the Apex language in forever! Embrace it! To elaborate on that though, let me hit you with this thrilling sales pitch. Just imagine a late night commercial selling you garbage, but the garbage is actually good. Are you…

Salesforce Admin Tutorial: How to Create Unique Person Account Search Layouts using formula fields

Salesforce Admin Tutorial: How to Create Unique Person Account Search Layouts using formula fields

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Why would you want to make unique person account search layouts? If you’re reading this, chances are you already know the answer to this, but just in case, let’s go over why you would want/need to do this. If you didn’t know, person account search layouts are determined by the account object and that’s because…

Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use Named Credentials to simplify your Apex Salesforce Integrations
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Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to use Named Credentials to simplify your Apex Salesforce Integrations

ByCoding With The Force Inc

Why should you bother using Named Credentials? In short, it’s gonna save you a bunch of time, code and unnecessary configuration, especially when you are authenticating using OAuth. Named credentials basically simplify the authentication portion of your callouts to to external services and allow you do it declaratively through configuration. No matter how hardcode a…

Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to Setup the LWC Local Development Server
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Salesforce Development Tutorial (LWC): How to Setup the LWC Local Development Server

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Why setup the Local Development Server? After you use it a couple times I promise you won’t ever ask this question again, lol. It makes your LWC development SO MUCH FASTER!!! I mean it might actually be Lightning Fast! (I’m sorry, but I’m not letting that joke go…). If you’ve ever developed LWC’s directly in…

Salesforce Administration Tutorial: How to Setup Okta Single-Sign On (SSO)
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Salesforce Administration Tutorial: How to Setup Okta Single-Sign On (SSO)

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Why Setup Okta at all? This is a perfectly legitimate question, one I asked myself around 4 years ago when I setup my first Okta integration with Salesforce. The answer to this question is pretty straight forward though, let me break it down for you. Okta Benefit #1: At the company you work for you…