How to get IP Address of Community User – Guest and Logged in Customer User

4 Comments / apex, Community, Salesforce, Uncategorized

DESCRIPTION Tracing IP address of community is utmost requirement to achieve different goals like geo based technical support, spam protection and other security things. There are bunch of forum discussions related to this: https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/?id=9062I000000g56rQAA https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/145145/how-to-get-ip-address-of-current-user-in-lightning-component https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/246085/how-to-get-the-public-ip-address-of-current-user-in-lightning-component-hosted-o/246087 APPROACHES In order to solve this, simple approach is to get the IP address and store in any custom …

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Salesforce Platform Encryption and Classical Encryption – Depuzzling

8 Comments / Encryption, Salesforce, Security

To take your security measures further, Salesforce Shield provides a more robust suite of solutions. Shield includes three products: Platform Encryption, Event Monitoring, and Field Audit Trail. Here our focus on Shield Platform Encryption, which provides a higher-level encryption (256-bit instead of 128-bit) than the classic offering. Platform Encryption is very different than classical encryption …

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Execution of Trigger and Workflow – A practical Analysis

apex, Apex Trigger Execution, Salesforce, Workflow

Target Record: A Case record with Status =”New” in Database. There is trigger which updates the value of Status =”Working” in before update event. There is workflow too which updates to Status to “Escalated”. So, we are going to analyze how system behaves in these scenarios: Lets play as below: P.S: In all events, old …

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PD2 Tough Questions – Refresh your amygdala

Salesforce, Uncategorized

Integer x = 1; Integer Y = 0; While(x < 10){Y++;} Will go in infinite loop because x is not being updated inside loop to break the condition. Integer x = 1; Integer Y = 0;While(x < 10){Y++;} ______________________ Contact con = new Contact( LastName = ‘JOHNSON’, email = ‘Web@test.com’);Savepoint sp = Database.setSavepoint();insert con;Database.rollback(sp);system.debug(con);con.email = …

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Why Before Trigger should not have DML for other objects

168 Comments / apex, Apex Code Practice, Salesforce, Trigger Best Practices

if you update or delete a record in its before trigger, or delete a record in its after trigger, you will receive a runtime error. This includes both direct and indirect operations. For example, if you update account A, and the before update trigger of account A inserts contact B, and the after insert trigger of contact B queries for account A and …

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Apex Trigger Practice (3) – Trigger on Attachments to count the number of attachments

73 Comments / Apex Code Practice, Apex Trigger Practice, Salesforce

Question Hints: Account is standard object and attachment is child object. Requirement: We need to create an Apex Trigger on Attachments to count the number of attachments on the object – let’s take Account – and store in number field “Number of attachments”. Trigger is considering all the possible scenarios in this – after insert, after …

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