Salesforce Email to Case provides a very important functionality to Salesforce Service Cloud. The ability to handle and automatically turn new emails into a case and add existing email threads to a pre-existing case. In order for this functionality to work the Salesforce needs to create a service address, this address is hosted by Salesforce […]

Debugging Apex in Salesforce Apex logs can be difficult. If you have downloaded an apex log and tried to find the issue it can be a big chore. With Visual Studio Code and the Apex Replay Debugger extension debugging has become much easier. This article won’t be going through Apex Replay Debugger as trailhead has […]

The List class in APEX does not have a native method to split a list, such as a java subList or Javascript slice. The brute force way would be to loop through the list and either remove the records that are not wanted or create a new list and add the values to the list. […]

Whether looking through Developer Console or wanting a process/trigger to create a file here are a few quick methods that can be used to create a CSV or generic file from Apex. This is to show a few quick methods that can be used to create a CSV from Apex however they could be modified […]

In apex, the Id is a primitive data type that maintains the data integrity of the data type by only allowing only Ids(or Strings with Id patterns). If you would like to test it out, put the following into anonymous apex and execute: You receive an error with the following StringException: Invalid id: 001aaaaaaaaaaaa. To […]

Custom Metadata can be used for a variety of reasons one of which is allowing the ability to create a framework from deployable records (custom metadata) instead of data. They can be referenced in formulas, flows, and APEX. If you are not familiar take a look at the Custom Metadata Type Basics and Programmable Development […]

In Salesforce merging a record itself is simple; one record is deleted(the loser), one record is updated(the winner), and the children are reparented. With CDC that is all out of the box. If the external system and any processes can handle those operations alone then it is all straight forward and easy to implement. However, […]

Salesforce Change Data Capture is very useful in being able to capture and replicate changes that occur with a record. Each change creates a CDC event message. The message can either be one or multiple record changes with a given transaction creating multiple changes. This article assumes you know a little bit about Salesforce change […]

Creating a migration strategy at first can seem like a very simple task. All you do is take data from one database and put it into another. However it can become much more complex. When assessing your strategy for loading data into Salesforce there are a few things to consider: The Salesforce Data Model The […]

The great thing about console apps is the ability to have multiple tabs open at once. This is important for many reasons, one of them being CTI. As great as they are those tabs can very quickly pile up and a user can have a large amount of tabs open at once. While you are […]