Questions tagged [bestpractice]
Referring to the use of recognized community and platform best practices. May relate to all areas of lifecycle and all development and administration activities.
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Impact of Special Characters in Composite Keys for Custom Metadata
I have a custom metadata table that stores different combinations of field values, including picklist values that contain special characters like quotes (", ') and semicolons (;). Current Setup ...
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Best practices for building a Rest Resource class
I'm looking for a general approach or best practices for building a Rest Resource class/classes, so it could be easily expandable in the future. Or maybe you have an example of something a bit more ...
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B2B Commerce: Best Practice for product visibility
we have customers that own one or more assets. Each asset is a large machine that is individually configured. In our B2B commerce shop, customers should be able to order spare parts and consumption ...
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Agentforce - Scoping and instructing Topics and Actions right
Unlike other Agent frameworks like OpenAI assistants which have a single instruction field per Agent, Agentforce is different. And difficult. It has many place where natural language "prompt"...
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How expensive is this operation to get type of object?
I am doing an update an opportunity from a event, in the trigger I have this List<Opportunity> opportunitiesToUpdate = new List<Opportunity>(); for(Event anEvent : events) { if(String....
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In Apex, how can I make map keys dynamic?
I have a class with the following methods: public virtual Map<String, List<SObject>> mapBySpecifiedStringField(List<SObject> homogeneousSObjectList, SObjectField idField) { ...
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Before Trigger - Validate data prior to assigning?
I'm wondering if there's any benefit to adding an if statement to check if data changed prior to modifying in a before trigger (assuming I'd always want that specific value). The example below is ...
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Is there a way to flip the parent/child data in an instance of SObject without a new SOQL query?
I have the following SOQL: public List<B25__Resource__c> getByIds(Set<Id> resourceIds) { return [ SELECT Id, B25__Parent__c, ...
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Best Practice - Dynamic SOQL or Static Query within if/else
I'm wondering what is the best practice in a situation where I have a conditional query - do I use an if/else to create my query string and use dynamic query in one place, or use static query and ...
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Is it ok to import campaign members to a parent campaign?
Currently, we have a hierarchy with parent and child campaigns. Right now, all campaign members are housed in child campaigns. I have a campaign that isn't relevant to any existing parent campaigns, ...
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Can we call apex method with the same name but with different letter case in another class?
Can I call a method in another class with the same method name but with different cases. For example a method testMethod() is in classA. And itsl is called as ClassA.TestMethod() in ClassB. Will it ...
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Using a Custom Object or Standard Object to expose data for integration
I have a requirement to integrate with a 3rd party application for Account data (Account creation). The idea is that Salesforce will be the primary source of truth and the other application will be ...
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How can I Jest Test an LWC without relying on implementation details and assuming extended HTML does its job?
I have this test: it('handles errors from getDummyApiUsers', async () => { // Arrange const mockError = new Error('Simulated error from getDummyApiUsers'); ...
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How do you correctly populate an External Credential from a Principal for a Named Credential?
In Salesforce, I want to consume a web API which I can successfully call from my command line like: curl --location 'https://dummyapi.io/data/v1/user?limit=10' \ --header 'app-id: SomeApiKey' In ...
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SF Campaign Naming Conventions for Evergreen Campaigns
I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions or best practices for campaign naming conventions when it comes to evergreen campaigns or campaigns that run beyond a single fiscal year. Currently, my company'...
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