About Matt

Matt McGuire is a Salesforce architect, AI builder, and punk musician based in Toronto. Canada's #1 certified Salesforce professional, 43× certified across architecture, development, AI, and a wide range of platform products. He's been building on Salesforce for 17 years and currently spends most of his time at the intersection of AI and the platform. The Music Intelligence Engine is his most interesting project to date. He thinks you should read the whole series.

2302, 2016

Display Numeric Fields Without Commas Using Validation Rules

Matt/ February 23, 2016/ Salesforce

When wanting to display a number field without a comma, I’ve generally made a number field then a formula text field to display the value as text:

2002, 2016

Apple vs the FBI & the effect on SaaS

Matt/ February 20, 2016/ Salesforce, Technology

If you’re not following the current battle between Apple and the FBI, you probably should be. Long story short, the FBI wants access to the iPhone belonging to one of the deceased shooters from the San Bernardino incident, and they’ve secured a court order from the United States District Court of California to this effect.

1602, 2016

Default Record Types & Profiles With No Access To Object Settings

Matt/ February 16, 2016/ Salesforce

I came across something Friday regarding default record types and Profiles with no access to Object Settings (the three Chatter profiles).

1202, 2016

15 vs 18 digit keys in Salesforce – What gives?

Matt/ February 12, 2016/ Salesforce

Something I’m consistently surprised to see is the misunderstanding around the two different types of keys in Salesforce. Every record has two keys: a 15-digit, case-insensitive key, and an 18-digit case-sensitive key.