For the #MadeInItaly series where I want to showcase amazing artisanal Italian products from our incredible Italian Ohana, today’s guest post is delivered by Raffaele Preziosi, a certified Salesforce Developer and Application Architect who was born in Naples (Italy). He is passionate about the Salesforce platform, JavaScript, and DevOps. Currently, he works as a consultant at Accenture Nordics in Copenhagen, where he continues to innovate and develop solutions for clients in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Productivity is key when working with complex systems like Salesforce and installing the right tools can significantly increase it.
Salesforce Productivity Burst is a Visual Studio Code extension that can boost the productivity of Salesforce developers by streamlining their workflow.
The most interesting feature of this extension is the ability to open a wide range of Salesforce metadata types directly from VSCode, without the need to navigate the Salesforce user interface. This feature can save developers and admins a lot of time during the working day.
To use this feature, simply install it (Salesforce Productivity Burst – Visual Studio Marketplace), open the XML metadata component file and click the search icon in the status bar.
The extension operates by querying the metadata to retrieve the necessary ID, which will be used to generate the final URL. To improve the extension’s responsiveness, data is cached in the .sfdx/tools/SPB folder. By running the SPB:Refresh Metadata command, all required data can be pre-cached, resulting in significantly faster access to the components in subsequent operations.
It currently supports the following metadata types: Flow, Fields, Layouts, Profiles, Validation Rules, Global Picklists, Lightning Pages, Permission Sets, Permission Set Groups, Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, Quick Actions and Approval Processes.
In addition to this feature, SPB offers the ability to get total coverage and single-method test coverage of Apex classes/triggers, similar to what is available in the developer console. It also allows for quick activation of debug logging for your user, automated process, or integration platform user.