Salesforce Winter ’21 Release Notes (Developer Perspective)

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Update Resources with the PATCH HTTP Method in Apex Callouts To make partial or full updates to a resource in an HTTP web service, specify the PATCH method in the HttpRequest class. Previously, only the PUT method was supported for full updates. https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/winter21/release-notes/rn_apex_callouts_patch.htm?edition=&impact= Use the Safe Navigation Operator to Avoid Null Pointer Exceptions Use the safe navigation …

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

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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

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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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Box Authentication – Getting Access token Using JWT OAuth2.0 in Salesforce

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This articles explains how can we authenticate in Box.com using JWT OAuth 2.0. Here is the API details in Box API documentation: https://developer.box.com/guides/authentication/jwt/without-sdk/ Box – Prerequisites Salesforce – Prerequisites Apex Code A). In following implementation, we are not using standard JWT and JWS because it throws error “Signature verification error. The public key identified by …

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Execution of Trigger and Workflow – A practical Analysis

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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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Apex Trigger Practice (4)

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Prerequisites Standard Contact Object There is checkbox Field on Contact called “Active” A custom object “Employment Detail” as child object of Contact Object There is a picklist field “Status” having two values: Employee, Ex-Employee And a lookup field to Conatct Requirement: If Contact field “Active” is marked as true, then If no record of child …

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