How To Set Up CICD On Bitbucket Pipelines With Salesforce DX And Delta Deployment

Learn how to setup set up CICD delta deployment with Salesforce DX. Tips and tricks for authorisation , setting up node and the basic git commands. I’m revamping our CICD process with Salesforce DX and Bitbucket Pipeline with the following initial setup which will only allow delta deployments. Authentication method – authorize an org and… Read More How To Set Up CICD On Bitbucket Pipelines With Salesforce DX And Delta Deployment

June 29, 2020August 21, 2021 lopau3 Comments

How to Validate forms built with Lightning Components

Learn how to validate lightning components forms easily. I recently had a requirement to create a basic lightning component to capture form inputs. I previously had a not so good experience with building custom validation with Lightning components back in Summer17 when lightning was pretty new. I was using force:inputField and also used lightning:inputField. Past… Read More How to Validate forms built with Lightning Components

October 17, 2019June 22, 2021 lopau1 Comment

Passed the Mulesoft Certified Developer(Mule4) Level 1 Exam

The MuleSoft Certified Developer Mule4 Level is a very tough exam to prepare for. Even with having taken the online 5 day Fundamentals course. Below are my key takeaways how I passed the exam. I failed my first attempt of the exam last week. I booked another schedule the week after and really focused on… Read More Passed the Mulesoft Certified Developer(Mule4) Level 1 Exam

October 15, 2018October 25, 2021 lopau26 Comments

How to use a Fritz! Box 7490 as a WIFI Extender

Learn how to configure a Fritz!Box as a WIFI Extender. Since fibre just recently became available in our neighbourhood I just got it installed about a month ago and has been enjoying it. The location in the house where I had the fibre box set up was in the living room as I wanted to… Read More How to use a Fritz! Box 7490 as a WIFI Extender

September 22, 2018June 22, 2021 lopau6 Comments

Demystifying JSON Parsing In Apex

Learn and demystify JSON parsing in Apex. You got back a JSON string either as a response from a REST service, passed through from your visual force page via remote action, or passed from your lighting component to your apex controller, now how do you parse this information? For simple JSON structures Salesforce can automatically… Read More Demystifying JSON Parsing In Apex

March 9, 2018June 22, 2021 lopau10 Comments

How to Use SOQL Query From the Data Source Wizard with OmniStudio FlexCards

Building on the knowledge of using the FlexCard and selecting Data Sources which is the important part of the step. Check my previous post of using FlexCard and Data Source Wizard tutorial here. On this post we focus on using SOQL Query as the Data Source. We use the Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) to… Read More How to Use SOQL Query From the Data Source Wizard with OmniStudio FlexCards

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How To Get Started With Conga Composer For Salesforce

Learn how to make pixel-perfect documents from Salesforce. Conga is a 3rd party product on the Salesforce AppExchange that can be installed to extend Salesforce. Conga composer is a document generation tool. It is easy to create documents, presentations, and spreadsheets using Salesforce data. Conga can be used in a variety of use cases like… Read More How To Get Started With Conga Composer For Salesforce

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Fixing Post Title Showing Uppercase In WordPress

The Issue? When creating a new post and post title appears as uppercase during edit and when published, the unintended results is your post title is out of whack with a mix of upper and lowercase. It can be the most annoying thing ever. The Culprit? Most of the time the problem is from the… Read More Fixing Post Title Showing Uppercase In WordPress

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How to use the @State property wrapper in SwiftUI

Types in Swift fall into one or two categories (value types and reference types). Value types are where each instance keeps a unique copy of its data, usually defined as a struct, enum or tuple. In SwiftUI we use structs for our views and since structs are value types we cannot modify the values inside… Read More How to use the @State property wrapper in SwiftUI

August 28, 2021August 28, 2021 lopauLeave a comment

How To Limit Pushing Changes To Specific Remote Branches in Bitbucket

On this post we are going to learn how to limit pushing changes to specific remote branches in Bitbucket. Let’s say we have the following repository branches. main or master uat qa We do not want users to directly push their changes to any of the remote branches without going through pull request and code… Read More How To Limit Pushing Changes To Specific Remote Branches in Bitbucket

August 22, 2021August 22, 2021 lopauLeave a comment

How to Add Unit Test To An Xcode Project

Beginner lessons on setting up unit testing in Swift. On Creation Easiest way is during project creation. When creating a new project simply tick the checkbox Include Tests. This should create the basic bundle code and targets. There are two types unit testing. UI Unit Testing and Unit Testing Existing Project If you have an… Read More How to Add Unit Test To An Xcode Project

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Integration Procedures

Merge the output of multiple APIs and orchestrate multi-step calculations.

August 15, 2021August 16, 2021 lopauLeave a comment

DataRaptors

DataRaptors are part of the architectural service management layer and is basically a mapping tool that enables data to be read, transformed and written to Salesforce. In a typical process, we will extract the data, display the data, if data got modified we will post the update back. Dataraptor data are normally displayed in UI… Read More DataRaptors

August 13, 2021October 26, 2021 lopauLeave a comment

OmniStudio Calculation Procedures

Calculation Procedures allow complex math to be configured within OmniStudio. To handle many factors, values and calculations, a Calculation Procedure can call up one more more Calculation Matrices. Basically, these are simple lookup tables that takes an input and returns output. A Calculation Matrix adds more functionality to OmniScripts and Integration Procedures. Types of Calculation… Read More OmniStudio Calculation Procedures

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 lopauLeave a comment

OmniScripts Action Elements

In this section we talk about the different Action elements available for our OmniScript. Most are similar to Integration Procedure Actions as well. Action elements in general are used for the following requirements. Get or update data from one or more Salesforce objects (DataRaptor Extract/Post) Call a series of actions (Integration Procedures) Perform HTTP methods… Read More OmniScripts Action Elements

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