Few days ago I was lurking in the Named Credentials configurations. What are named credentials? Here are the official docs. They are essentially a way to store callout configurations such as: Endpoint (only HTTPs endpoints are supported) Callout certificate (if needed, from the local key store) Authentication protocol (if needed) Authentication settings With named credentials […]
Tag: Salesforce
[Salesforce / Trailhead] Presenting the “Navigate the Salesforce Advantage” trail aka What is Salesforce?
This is a technical blog (“Nerd @ work” say it all) and I usually post exclusively technical stuff. But in the recent trailhead additions there is a special set of modules that basically answer the question “What is Salesforce and what’s the reason of its Success?” This is the Navigate the Salesforce Advantage trail and […]
[Salesforce / MVP] Yes guys, I’m a Salesforce MVP! And Thank you all!
Today I woke up and… BAAAMM! I’ve been nominated a Salesforce MVP: read the announcement from the Salesforce MVP blog. This is an honor and a motivation of pride for my carreer, and I know I have to thank the whole Force.com Community for this awesome achievement! This post is just to say thank you […]
[Salesforce / Visualforce] Handling Viewstate with Dynamic Visualforce components
I’ve written this post thanks to the help of my colleague Ivano Guerini who has found the solution to the problem I’m going to expose and written down the code you’ll see in this post. This post is about correctly handling the viewstate when dealing with Dynamic Visualforce Components. For those of you that have […]
[Salesforce / Git] Automate metadata backup with SF-Git
If you are a Salesforce nerd like me, I’m sure you have a lot of Developer Edition orgs with you and don’t want to loose a line of code. After months of inactivity the ORG could be freezed and your ORG get lost (or you know personally Marc Benioff and can ask him to revive […]
[Salesforce / Visualforce] Input Lookup Custom Component
Have you ever needed a VisualForce lookup input field without using a lookup field from another “fake” object? I did, and now I have an easy to use VisualForce component that does the trick (almost all the trick). Here is the GitHub repository that contains the component. The components simply replicates what the standard lookup […]
[Salesforce / Trailhead] Christmas Trailhead Gifts
Have you been a good or a bad boy this year? It doesn’t matter to TrailheadClaus, so he put new modules under the tree for you! At first we have a new trail for advanced administrators. This includes Event Monitoring and Lightning Connect modules and the new Advanced Formulas module. This module explains advanced features […]
[Salesforce / Amazon Echo] Integrate Alexa with Salesforce
Among the #swag I got from my colleagues from their trip to DreamForce 15, there was a pearl: Amazon Echo, well known as Alexa. The first (funny) thing I wanted to do was to make it (her) speak italian, and believe me it was as fun as learning how to use the Alexa Skill Kit: […]
[Salesforce / Custom Settings] How and Why
This is a beginner’s guide to Custom Settings, that shows a practical way of using all the features they convey. For TL;DR people, this is the GitHub repository of the example. One of the greatest pros of the Force.com platform is the extraordinary quick development phase: even when you are under continous software development, you […]
[Salesforce / Lightning] Create your own Lightning Progress Bar
This is a repost from the article I wrote for the Salesforce Developer Blog. Have you ever wanted a progress bar in your linghtning app? I have and so I came up with a simple bootstrap library wrap up. Following the successful Lightning series, I’m going to show you how I’ve made a simple Lightning Component […]