For the second year in a row, we’re lucky to be among the first to discover a problem with the summer release of Salesforce, and have that problem become a known issue. Last year LightningLockerServices Critical Update. What’s the problem? I’m witnessing an issue in a sandbox we recently refreshed. We’re running a vendor product on top of Salesforce (this
If you’re like me – a developer who is sometimes too clever by half – you’ll relate to this story. I just made some changes to a Javascript file in a static resource and when I deployed this from dev to our QA environment, I couldn’t see the fix. After confirming the file did in fact update by checking its metadata I
Recently, a vendor uploaded a change set to one of our internal sandboxes. I tried to deploy the change set but it kept throwing an error – the fields on the object contained within the change set didn’t exist Salesforce requires you to include new custom fields in change sets to deploy to a new org – not just the object
Over my career I’ve done a number of things, from ColdFusion then developing printer drivers, to .NET, PHP, Dynamics CRM, and now Salesforce, while playing around with things like python and android development in my spare time. I’m not sure why, but I’ve never had as much of a problem with Date Formats anywhere else as I have with Salesforce.
Have you ever used a change set to deploy, only to find things like record types, field level security, or object access didn’t carry over to production? I came across a neat trick over the weekend that I wanted to pass on.
UPDATE July 2021: I no longer use MavensMate and have not since shortly after writing this post. I would hope the tool has improved in the 5 years since I wrote this post but if not, I would definitely recommend checking out IlluminatedCloud or Visual Studio Code as an alternative! — There’s been some confusion lately within my network about
In about a weeks time, a Critical Update called Clickjack Protection for Legacy Browsers for Visualforce Pages Without Page Header (Critical Update) will come into effect. This CU extends clickjack protection for legacy version browsers for Visualforce pages that set showHeader=”false” when those pages are configured on API versions older than 27.0. Clickjack protection is added to VF pages through several security
I have a single Google calendar where I store repeating events (pay day, barber appointments, improv workshops, etc) in addition to one-off social events. The has become too crowded so I created a new calendar called Routine and moved all of those ‘routine’ events there, but the new calendar wasn’t syncing with my Android.
Want to work on my team in the Digital Experience Tower here at Manulife? We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer.
I just encountered the first SOQL syntax error I’ve had to look up in a long time. Do you know how to write a NOT LIKE condition in a query?