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What are Salesforce ID's composed of?
I remember seeing somewhere that IDs are composed of a few pieces. I always have a hard time trying to find that information when I'm looking for it. What I mean by the above is that the various ...
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Unit testing code which has logic around the CreatedDate
An example of the problem would be trying to test a trigger on a case which will fire on update, and look for time differences between when a case was created and now. Ideally in the unit tests I want ...
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End of javascript sidebar workarounds? (Salesforce Classic / Aloha)
Reading through this doc:
Docs.releasenotes.salesforce
We replaced the rich text editor in HTML Area home page components
with a new version that supports more markup but doesn’t allow HTML to
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Any reason to skip DML on empty lists?
In parts of my code I have DML statements with an if around to only do the DML if the list is not empty:
if( !recordsToUpdate.isEmpty() ) {
update recordsToUpdate;
}
Couldn't I just write?
update ...
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Force.com IDE - Still Officially Supported?
In the Summer '13 release webinar, Ryan Upton and Samantha Ready mention that the Force.com IDE is no longer being supported. During the Q&A time, they both chime in on a question related to the ...
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Is it possible to run a SOQL Query and get a Map returned?
It is possible to run query and the results inserted into an Apex list:
List<Opportunity> opportunities = [SELECT Opportunity.OwnerId,
Opportunity....
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How to reduce a large internal view state / what is in the internal view state?
I'm building an account search page that lets users select accounts and then pass them to other pages to perform various actions on them. Unfortunately users are reporting hitting the view state ...
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How can I efficiently generate a Set<Id> from a List<SObject> structure?
I have a bit of code where I've written a SOQL query that returns a list of SObject records, however I need a Set<Id> structure to pass to another method that I don't have control of (and thus ...
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Difference between the multiple messaging options in Visualforce?
I have always been curious what are the exact differences between all of the messaging options Visualforce provides, such as apex:message, apex:messages, apex:pageMessage, and apex:pageMessages. The ...
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Can we determine if the Salesforce instance is production org or a Sandbox org?
I am looking for the most efficient way of identifying the type of org (Production or Sandbox) via Apex code. URL scraping is not useful to me, since I'd like to get this information inside a trigger ...
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How do I start to debug my own Apex code?
Sometimes questions are posted here that would best be answered by helping the questioner learn how to do their own debugging. (Remember that proverb?) I'd like to have something to link to on this ...
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When are the Queueable/Batchable penalties going to be enforced?
According to The New Apex Queueable Interface, from October 2014, we were told that chained Queueable calls would be exponentially delayed up to 64 seconds, chaining Batches would be exponentially ...
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Apex static code analysis
What static code analysis tools are there for apex? The only one I seem to be able to find is the Force.com Security Source Code Scanner but that has the draw back of placing your request into a queue ...
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SFDC: Understanding With Sharing, Without Sharing & Unspecified Sharing Classes
Per my understanding of With Sharing, Without Sharing and non-sharing-specified Classes in Apex, I would like to jot down the following notes and leave certain blanks for not sure answers; I wanted to ...
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How to study/prepare for the Salesforce ADVANCED Developer Certification?
After reading the overwhelming responses to the question How to study/prepare for the Salesforce Developer Certification, I decided to ask the same question but for the Advanced Developer ...
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