Scratch Definition File, great but… If you made the move to Salesforce DX from an existing Salesforce org, you may know that building the Scratch Definition File for your Scratch Org can be painful. It’s a powerful tool, but then you need to be sure to activate the exact same features and settings that you…

During our #TexeiAdventCalendar, we’re sharing some small tips we like, for instance new stuff coming from the Winter ’21 release. One small improvement that you may have missed is the ability to auto add new custom fields to custom report type layouts. Remember every time you created some new fields, and then got feedback from users a few days later that the field wasn’t available in reports ? No more happening with this new feature.

From time to time, a Salesforce release gives you a small update that will ease your life. I don’t say I delete custom fields every day, but when I do I find very painful the need to switch to Salesforce Classic to manage them, and potentially undelete them or definitely erase them. Starting Winter ’21, we’re now able to manage deleted field from Lightning Experience, thank you !

A common use case Lightning Data Service is a great tool allowing you to use the same cache as Lightning Experience, bringing better performances and less code to write. Using Lightning Base Components like lightning-record-form or using out-of-the-box getRecord or createRecord methods will make record editing much easier. …

This is a two parts blog series: Part 1 is focused on a simple command to export/import data, while Part 2 handles with more advanced use cases. Limitations Having an easy to use command to export/import data is nice, but at some point you may be stuck with more complex use…

This is a two parts blog series: Part 1 is focused on a simple command to export/import data, while Part 2 handles with more advanced use cases. Every time I begin a new project for a customer and that we start talking about using Scratch Orgs, one of the question…

Each day we will reveal our “tip of the day” regarding the #Winter20 release. What’s new ? When you’re in App Launcher, you can now right click on an app, and open it in a new tab !

A few months back, I had the opportunity to talk to Xi Xiao who is running the Salesforce Way website, a Podcast and a YouTube channel. The result of this talk is a 40mn podcast where Xi Xiao asked me several questions about Unlocked Packages, how these are working, how…

If you’ve started using Salesforce DX, it’s likely you’ve already seen this picture of happy Trailhead characters moving metadata from the so-called “Happy soup” to separate projects: In an older blog post, I wrote about our first steps with DX and Unlocked Packages. …