A quick tutorial on how to create a modal popup with Lightning Component. What is modal popup? Modal popup acts like a container for your content that displays on top of the content you are viewing. Imagine content stacked on top of it. In short, a modal popup is a very handy way of showing… Read More Creating a Modal Popup Lightning Component
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.” – Jamie Zawinski Every now and then I have some requirements where it entails parsing some data where I need to use some form of Regular Expression(regex), it is a syntax to use to search for… Read More How To Use Regular Expressions (Regex)
I’m starting a new habit of posting regularly on my blog every week. I’ll be kicking it off with tips for creating a generic class or a mocking factory for mocking calls to an external third-party service. Why do we need to do a mock? When running unit tests the platform does not allow to… Read More How to Create a Generic Class for Mocking REST Callouts for Unit Test
How to build a custom lightning component related list with real-time REST data. For this tutorial, I’ll show a technique on how to integrate external data and display the data real-time as a related list in Salesforce. This would not use an external object but a simple custom related list component that uses lightning:datatable base… Read More Custom Lightning Component Related List With Real-Time REST Data
Introduced for some time now particularly in Winter 15. Queueable Apex addresses some short coming of the @future methods. It’s an offspring of the marriage of @future methods and Batch Apex. Queueable Apex allows you to submit jobs for asynchronous processing similar to future methods with the following additional benefits: Non-primitive types – you can… Read More Salesforce Queueable Apex and Future annotations
On a standard POST call to a REST endpoint. The receiving endpoint expects a payload on the body of the POST. The service then parses the content of the body. For example on the following Salesforce endpoint I created a POST request and sent on the body the following JSON: With Apex REST here are… Read More How to parametize POST request on Salesforce Apex REST
Just ran into this when I was creating a new Custom Setting for a new org. The List Settings Type was greyed out. Found out this is something new for Spring 18. It is now an application level settings that needs to be enabled even for System Administrators. Starting with the Spring ’18 release, Admins… Read More Salesforce List Custom Settings is Greyed Out