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Get to know a database integrator / Ask Me Anything!
If you didn't already know ... .ltag__user__id__96905 .follow-action-button{ background-color: #080E3B !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; border-color: #080E3B !important; } Alan Hylands Solver of...
View ArticleSetting up VSCode to edit Salesforce metadata
A colleague wanted to edit the XML behind Salesforce flows so she could quickly copy/paste entire flows , copy/paste variables within a flow , etc. That part is easy, but I needed to walk her through...
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Intro to XML and JSON #6: JSON
We’ve seen JSON from a “30,000-foot view.” We understand what kind of data JSON can help us with. Let’s learn how to write JSON! (And let’s talk a lot about octopi. 🐙 Thanks, Marijn Haverbeke.)...
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Intro to XML and JSON #7: Recap and Real World Use
That’s a wrap! Let’s recap the battle of “XML vs. JSON,” discuss how they’re used in the real world, and take a final glance at the big picture. After all, you might still be asking questions like:...
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How can I make slides beautiful without a Mac?
Every time I see a talk at a conference with beautiful slides, I look up on the podium and discover a glowing white apple symbol on the speaker's laptop. I have no reason to ever drop any amount of...
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XML for Salesforce Administrators: DemandTools Configuration
As we saw with Salesforce flows, copying and pasting configuration settings within typically point-and-click “business logic tools” is a great reason to be able to read and write XML. Let’s look at...
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Intro to HTTP (for data folks & managers, especially!)
HTTP is easy to learn in five minutes, and familiarity is essential if you'd like to use "APIs" to integrate data between systems over the internet. This post will give you a beginner-level foundation...
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Python Pandas For Excel webinar on vBrownBag
Wednesday August 21, 2019, 8:30PM Eastern / 5:30PM Pacific -- I'm talking about using Python's Pandas module to edit Excel files (and other table-shaped data!) on Chris Williams's awesome "Python for...
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Python and Selenium for a no-permissions Salesforce profile
I needed a fresh "no permissions" Salesforce profile in a mature org. I couldn't get the Metadata API working fast enough to my liking, so I gave up and built a "robot version" of myself with Python...
View ArticleRecalcul des champs de formule Salesforce en Apex
L’édition hiver ‘20 de Salesforce inclue une nouvelle classe Apex Formule – regardez ici un exemple de ses capacités. James Hou a annoncé, dans l’excellent résumé de l’édition hiver ‘20 de Salesforce...
View ArticleRecalculating Salesforce Formula Fields in Apex
Salesforce Winter ‘20 has a new Formula class in Apex – check out what it can do. James Hou pointed out, quoted in Windyo’s excellent abridged Winter ‘20 release notes on Reddit : Formulas...
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Disabling Lightning Experience w/ Python and Selenium in Salesforce
You saw me be too lazy to click buttons in No-Permissions Salesforce Profile w/ Python and Selenium: watch me do it again turning Lightning Experience off in all my Custom Profiles. (And watch me get...
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Better Salesforce Insert/Update Operations with Jitterbit Caching
Combined with “external ID” fields, Salesforce’s “ upsert” data-loading option is a godsend for dumping data from legacy systems into Salesforce. But what do you do if you only want to insert new...
View ArticleS’occuper d’une erreur FillDataElements en Jitterbit
Aujourd’hui, c’est l’Halloween. Et Jitterbit m’a bien effrayé en lançant une erreur FillDataElements lorsque j’élaborais une opération d’insertion Salesforce. Hou là là !Heureusement, j’ai découvert...
View ArticleClearing A Jitterbit FillDataElements Error
Today is Halloween, so to scare me, Jitterbit threw a “FillDataElements” error when I tried to build a Salesforce Insert operation and it didn’t like something I’d tried to do with a date. Boo! Luckily...
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Solved: 2 Salesforce ETL Errors
I'm blogging about 2 Salesforce errors I ran into today so that your Google results will, hopefully, be a little bit more helpful when you, too, see them.I was trying to design a Jitterbit ETL process...
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A Jitterbit Case Study: Higher Education Adventures in Salesforce
Boy have I been on a database integration adventure these last few weeks. In this series, I'll review some of the more interesting hoops I jumped through with Jitterbit to load data in CSV files...
View ArticleWorkaround: Salesforce Flow Picklist-Related Invalid Type Error
I received an INVALID_TYPE_ON_FIELD_IN_RECORD / value not of required type error that made no sense when editing a Salesforce flow. Turns out it's a known error. Here's how I got around it. Status Quo...
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Migrating my Salesforce org backups from Eclipse to VSCode without messing up...
Here's how I migrated all my "Salesforce configuration metadata backups" from Eclipse to VSCode without my 5-year-old Git history really caring.This is a bit of a quick-and-dirty low-quality post;...
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Salesforce Spring '20 Community Guest User Apocalypse
All right ... a nuisance, not an apocalypse. Heads up: There are some things changing with Guest User access Salesforce Communities in the Spring '20 release that can break your business's customer...
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