Many third-party applications offer their own APIs or webhooks, facilitating seamless and often simplified integrations across platforms. Another integration approach may involve using middleware or an enterprise service bus (ESB) to facilitate data movement. Regardless, the Salesforce REST API can handle standard CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete), or you can develop custom Apex …
I frequently advise basing Salesforce development decisions on platform capabilities, even if some features have not yet been embraced by your business. Keeping this in mind, I want to introduce the idea of running certain processes in both synchronous and asynchronous modes. In a previous discussion, I highlighted a situation where Salesforce allowed Community Users …
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According to the Apex developer documentation, there are various ways to chain together Apex processes. In this post, I will elucidate two distinct methods for chaining multiple batchable interfaces. Let’s contemplate the process flow scenario outlined below: The processes enclosed within the yellow outline above represent a singular batchable interface. Here, we make the ultimate …
Over the years, I’ve received several emails specifically inquiring about test coverage for the PDF logic demo. Today, I finally have some time to document it. There isn’t much to emphasize here. However, I do value it when readers pose questions. Feel free to continue sending them my way.
The Salesforce Apex Queueable Interface enables the asynchronous execution of Apex jobs, offering similarities to @Future annotated Apex classes. However, the distinctive feature of a queueable interface is its ability to be monitored through the Salesforce user interface or by querying the AsyncApexJob table. The utility of a queueable interface becomes apparent when initiating an …
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I’ve come across numerous inquiries on developer forums lately concerning the utilization of variables in batch Apex classes. One query sought guidance on passing a variable to the execute method of a batch class, while another focused on variable accessibility in the start, execute, and finish methods of a batch. The intention of this post …
Apex email services. The short story here is that you can send email to your Salesforce Org which is then processed by some Apex logic in order to support the specific needs of your business. One of our clients uses an Apex email service to automate Case creation for customer support issues. We have another …
This series has extensively discussed Test Driven Development (TDD) and provided numerous examples along the way. Now, let’s take a step back to revisit the core principles of TDD, emphasizing why it can be an effective development strategy and reviewing its fundamentals. Test Driven Development is grounded in the idea that tests should serve as …
In the previous post on Picklist Validation, I briefly mentioned my disappointment in not being able to devise a more effective pattern for creating singletons—the optimal method for accessing constant values such as those in a picklist: Expressing my dislike for crafting singleton property accessors, I’ve invested more hours than I’d like to admit attempting …
Utilizing strongly typed query builders comes with a significant advantage: the inherent type-checking feature. This not only safeguards developers from potential errors but also prevents administrators from modifying the API name of a field or deleting it while it is referenced within Apex code. Even without considering other applications of the Schema.SObjectField class, these reasons …
