Integrate Salesforce Flows and Approvals in Slack for Maximum Productivity

Hola! :)I recently had the opportunity to share the virtual stage with Antoine Cabot, Senior Director PM @ Salesforce on an episode of the Automate This! series. In this episode, I shared how you can run flows directly in Slack and increase your end users' productivity. Here’s the recording of the same (links for blog …

LWC SOQL Utility – One Apex class for all queries

When creating Lightning Web Components, how often have you had to create an Apex class just to do a simple query. Even for the simplest of queries, you've to create 2 Apex classes, one class that does the query and one additional test class. And often, you want to avoid this overhead for simpler use-cases. …

Formula: Concatenate multi-select picklist values in Formula field without the trailing ‘;’

Hola! 😀 I recently came across a use case where the customer wanted to display the concatenated values of Multi-select picklist in a formula field. The tricky part of the request was that customer didn't want the leading ';' in the result of formula field. Let's say if we had to write this formula for …

DataWeave x Apex: Data Transformation Made Easy

Have you write ever had to parse an XML or CSV in Apex? Me too! And we both know how awful that is!! Well, lucky us. Dataweave in Apex will be in beta in Spring '23. And yes, you will be able to play around with it in your org (Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer …

How to set up Username and Password authentication in new Named Credentials?

Hello there! How's it going? 😀 In one of my recent post I shared how we can pass API key in headers in External Services, and the basis of that solution was the new Named Credentials set up. In Winter ’23, Salesforce has completely reimagined the set up process for Named Credentials. Oddly enough, the …

Manage your Flows and their versions easily

Have you gone through the hassle of deleting flow versions one by one? Have you wished for an easy way to mass delete flow versions? Well, I certainly have been wishing for it since long. With the growing usage of flow, one might run into such scenarios more often than ever. Well, good for us …

How to set up Header based API Key authentication in External Services?

Hola! 😀 Passing custom headers, especially for authentication purposes, has been one of the most requested features by External Services users. Thanks to latest enhancements introduced in Winter '23 for Named credentials, we can now pass custom headers while making callouts to external systems. Let's see how the set up would look like. Quick context; …

Record Trigger Flows Design Patterns: One flow vs Multiple flows

Hello there! 🙂 Recently I had the opportunity to collaborate with Jennifer, Diana, Karmel and Tom to do a session on Record Trigger Flows Design Patterns where I was on team Multiple Flow design, Karmel and Tom on team One flow design. Here's the recording of the same (links for blog posts are also listed …

Flow Apex Action: IN Clause filter action v2

IN clause query action has been one of my widely used Apex actions in the community and I've been receiving a lot of requests for the ability to include additional filters in the query. So I've created a new Apex action that supports including additional query filters in the Apex action. You can find the …

Styling Hooks are GA: Migrate your Styling Hooks to –slds namespace

With Spring '22, Styling Hooks are going GA. As a part of the process, the namespace of these hooks is getting updated from '--sds' to '--slds'. From Spring '22 onwards, the official Styling Hooks namespace for SLDS will be --slds. The old namespace, --sds, will continue to function in the short term but there is no guarantee …