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Upskill Yourself in this Lockdown...

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Tweet It's all about finding the calm in the Chaos..... In a dark time, the eye begins to see. The words of the American poet Theodore Roethke felt especially resonant during the long weeks of the Great Pause. The well ordered predictable life we had come to take utterly for granted was rudely overturned like a bar after a brawl. Yes, you guessed it right.. The WORLDWIDE   LOCKDOWN!!!!!!!  A s social spaces are now closed and quarantine is being enforced by the government due to the coronavirus, now might be the time for everyone to learn something new, to upskill ourselves, to pursue those long-lost hobbies and to focus on our personal development while working from home. There can be no denying that we are all living in difficult times right now but if we shift our focus from the negatives, this can actually be considered as a golden opportunity for self-learning. Remember the time when we used to  crib about not having enough...

How to start your career in Salesforce?

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Tweet Salesforce being a booming technology nowadays. New customers are signing contracts every single day, and that means that more and more Salesforce Administrators, Developers and Consultants are needed, so I get a lot of questions asking how to start a career in Salesforce? The first question is - What role are you targeting or willing to do when it comes to Salesforce? Do you want to be a Salesforce Admin? Or a Salesforce Developer??                                                      Let's first start with seeing how these roles are different... 1. Salesforce Administrator Salesforce administrator duties  regularly incorporate comprehending client issues, making minor updates, and actualizing significant upgrades through point-and-click design.  2. Salesforce Developers  Many ...

Local Development for LWC

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Tired of deploying components to your org and then testing. Don't worry wait is over as Local development for LWC has come for your rescue. With the help of LWC server plugin you can test your Lightning web components locally and once every thing looks good than you can deploy. Te setup LWC local server you need to execute below CLI commands: 1.  sfdx plugins:install  @salesforce /lwc-dev-server This is a one time command to install the plugin. For now you need to install the plugin separately. Once this feature is GA than it will come in salesforce CLI package. 2.  sfdx force:lightning:lwc :start This command is for starting your local server. Check out the below video to see the demo.

5 Lightning Tips for Visualforce Developers

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#1 Know the basics:      To start with anything you need some background information. So for starting development in lightning you need to go through below resources:       Trailhead Lightning Components Basics    This module will help you in getting started with lightning app development.       Trailhead Lightning Design System   This module will help you in getting started in responsive UI. #2 Know Javascript well:      Lightning development is based on event driven architecture in javascript. You should know javascript well to develop good apps in lightning. Below resource will help you to establish understanding of javascript:       Javascript Tutorial     Through this tutorial you can get well versed with javascript. #3 Understand event flows in aura framework:       As we all know lightning is based upon aura framework which is opensource which follo...

How I started my salesforce development journey

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Thinking of starting to learn Salesforce? If your answer is YES  then you are at the right place. This post will help you out in getting started with salesforce. Let me start with telling you how I started learning salesforce. .... I was a newbie in Salesforce, the only source of learning was through the Force.com Platform Fundamental guide . Force.com Platform Fundamentals   This was my first Salesforce guide with the help of which I started getting familiar with salesforce. This guide made me understand the Salesforce Configuration stuff very well.It is designed in a very simple way that makes it easy for a novice to understand the concepts clearly. I can bet that after finishing this PDF you will be well versed with the salesforce configuration and some customization. This does not include code-based advanced customization.  It would be really very helpful if you finish this PDF in your initial Salesforce learning days. As I progressed, I discovered an amazing and i...

Working with geocodes location in salesforce

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Are your sales and marketing teams facing problems in locating the address of your customers?       If your answer is yes then you are in the right place. Are your sales and marketing tasks distribution optimized based on geolocation?       If your answer is no then you are in the right place.   Let's get started with the geolocation concept in salesforce. As default salesforce is providing geolocation field to below objects(This will be released in summer 16 release): Billing Address  on accounts Shipping Address  on accounts Mailing Address  on contacts Address  on leads Whenever a record is created in the above objects with some address these geolocation fields will auto-populate from data.com and the best part is, this does not require a data.com license. Each field above has three subfields(latitude, longitude, and accuracy) to store geolocation data. These fields are not present on page layout but you can dis...