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My goal is to help you work faster.
I must speak and teach until I hear 10 people say, "That thing you taught me? I used it! And it saved me time!"
(Ahem ... although maybe blogging slower than I'd hoped. Ugh, coders' repetitive stress injury.)
So check out the tutorials. Play with code. Tell me about your triumphs.
Python NumPy code to compute when a mortgage will be free of PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance)
12 Feb 2020
A friend is trying to come up with a clever way to use Excel CUMIPMT / CUMPRINC to figure out in what month a given mortgage’s principal would have dropped below 80% of the purchase price of the home (at which point they would know longer pay a supplemental fee known as private morgtage insurance, a.k.a. PMI).
Salesforce Classic slow in Chrome? Use Firefox until Spring '20
12 Feb 2020
Are your Salesforce “Classic” record pages loading slowly in Chrome, only to eventually load with broken content?
Continue ReadingTutorial: Flow External Services for Salesforce Admins
30 Jan 2020
Who remembers my #GIFSquad-friendly Salesforce Flow project from last summer, teaching Apex-Defined Data Types? I just learned that you can build the same project in Flow without writing any Apex code!
Continue ReadingSalesforce Spring '20 Community Guest User Apocalypse
08 Jan 2020
All right … a nuisance, not an apocalypse. Heads up: There are some things changing with Guest User access Salesforce Communities in the Spring ‘20 release that can break your business’s customer experience if you’re not on top of them.
Continue ReadingFlow Invocable Apex with Any Salesforce Object Type
02 Jan 2020
In case you missed it (hat tip to the “Salesforce Discord Abridged Release Notes” on my part), when working with a developer to build out snippets of “Invocable Apex” (kind of like sub-flows, but written in code) to run from your Salesforce flows, as of Spring ‘20 you can make them work on any Salesforce object.
Continue ReadingMigrating my Salesforce org backups from Eclipse to VSCode without messing up Git
07 Nov 2019
Here’s how I migrated all my “Salesforce configuration metadata backups” from Eclipse to VSCode without my 5-year-old Git history really caring.
Workaround: Salesforce Flow Picklist-Related Invalid Type Error
06 Nov 2019
I received an INVALID_TYPE_ON_FIELD_IN_RECORD / value not of required type error that made no sense when editing a Salesforce flow. Turns out it’s a known error. Here’s how I got around it.
A Jitterbit Case Study: Higher Education Adventures in Salesforce
04 Nov 2019
Boy have I been on a database integration adventure these last few weeks. In this series, I’ll review some of the more interesting hoops I jumped through with Jitterbit to load data in CSV files provided by an external admissions application partner (think common app … only this was a much smaller organization) into tables of a Salesforce org.
Continue ReadingSolved: 2 Salesforce ETL Errors
01 Nov 2019
I’m blogging about 2 Salesforce errors I ran into today so that your search results will, hopefully, be a little bit more helpful when you, too, see them.
bad value for restricted picklist field & id value of incorrect type
Clearing A Jitterbit FillDataElements Error
31 Oct 2019
Today is Halloween, so to scare me, Jitterbit threw a “FillDataElements” error when I tried to build a Salesforce Insert operation and it didn’t like something I’d tried to do with a date.
Boo!
Luckily … I found a trick (rebuilding my Operation from scratch once I’d fixed the underlying problems) that brought me a treat (the error stopped appearing).
