I have created this blog to share with the Salesforce Ohana my experience. I strive to put into perspective Salesforce features and propose solutions to given use cases that enforce scalability, maintenability as well as security to get the best from Salesforce. Please comment the articles, challenge the solutions, and suggest new posts!
Use Case: You have created an API user and a Connected App and you want to validate the connectivity before sending the credentials to the tierce application Before diving into the details, let’s recap and remind the basics around integrations.Integrating your Salesforce application to an external application is always an additional risk for the security …
How does your Contact Internal OWD look like By default the internal Organization Wide Defaults for the Contact object is set to Controlled by Parent. This means that the visibility of Contact records is driven by the visibility of their associated Account. With this setup Salesforce will only allow you to create sharing rules on …
Contacts not associated to an Account remain private Read More »
Salesforce DML limitation As you are working on a Cloud solution, with an infrastructure shared with other clients, Salesforce enforces many technical limitations called Governor Limits. This way they can better manage equity between clients and also ensure a client running a heavy process will not impact the other clients – at least for a …
Salesforce Workflow Field Updates don’t consume DML limit Read More »
Use Case: You need to load data stored in CSV files as static resources into different objects This scenario can happen whenever you want to load data samples into a sandbox org for instance. The exact same set of data samples across all your sandboxes to allow your developers to work and perform unit tests …
Use case: latencies reported while testing the integration You are involved in a project where an inbound or outbound integration with a third party application to/from Salesforce has been built. As part of the test phase, the integration team is reporting latencies when Salesforce APIs are called to trigger a business process and is asking …
Learn how to catch logs from your Salesforce API user Read More »
In which context could you want to lock your Salesforce Org? As part of maintenance operations or release deployments, you could require to prevent all users – or a subset of users – connecting to a Salesforce organization, for a limited period of time. While you could try to find the OFF button in the …
What is this critical update about? As of 29/10/2020, Salesforce plans to enforce this Critical Update with Spring ’21. First and foremost, Apex classes without a sharing declaration is insecure by default. Therefore if you are impacted by this Critical Update, it is high time to review all your Apex classes sharing declaration, and not …
Make sure you use with sharing in Lightning Controllers Read More »