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Salesforce Coding techniques that keep your admins happy (DF13)
The document outlines coding techniques in Salesforce that enhance administrator efficiency by emphasizing the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle. It covers key topics such as custom labels, field sets, and custom settings, detailing their definitions, benefits, and usage examples. The presentation aims to improve code readability, maintainability, and support for multi-lingual organizations.
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Salesforce Coding techniques that keep your admins happy (DF13)
- 1. Coding techniques thatkeep your admins happy Writing configurable code in Salesforce Roy Gilad, Israel Salesforce DUG, Leader Conduit Mobile, CRM Solutions Manager @RoyGilad
- 2. Roy Gilad Israel SalesforceDUG Leader CRM Solution Manager, Conduit Mobile @RoyGilad
- 3. All about ConduitMobile Award-winning, DIY app-creation platform, providing publishers with a one-stop shop for engaging users on the go and growing their business on mobile One-click creation of custom-branded mobile apps and sites Over 160,000 apps created; more than 1,000 new apps each day Specialized features for different business verticals: small businesses, restaurants, events, education, and more End-to-end solution: app creation, submission to app marketplaces, promotional tools, content management, and advanced analytics
- 4. Coding techniques thatkeep your admins happy What is this session about?
- 5. DRY principle Don’t RepeatYourself: “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system”
- 6. Coding techniques thatkeep your admins happy In this presentation we will cover: Custom Labels Field Sets Custom Settings
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- 8. Custom Labels What isit? Custom labels are custom text values that can be accessed from anywhere: Apex classes Visualforce pages Formulas Validation rules
- 9. Custom Labels Why shouldwe use it? Text to be maintained by a system administrators. DRY: Reuse and consistency throughout the organization. Code readability. Multi-lingual support.
- 10. Custom Labels Where canwe find them? Setup-> Build -> Create -> Custom Labels
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- 12. Custom Labels Where shouldwe use it? Text in pages Error messages in triggers When you have multi-lingual org – A MUST! Place-holder for repeated string in your code.
- 13. Custom Labels How touse them? Apex: System.Label.Label_name Visualforce: {!$Label. Label_name} Formula and validations: $Label. Label_name
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- 15. Field Sets What isit? Set of fields in an object that can be used dynamically in Apex and in Visualforce pages. Field sets are a powerful tool when you have a number of fields used in the same operation, or in the same context.
- 16. Field Sets Why shouldwe use it? Pages and integrations can be controlled by a system administrators. DRY: Reuse and consistency throughout the organization. Code readability.
- 17. Field Sets Where canwe find them? Can be defined for any object: • In standard objects it can be found under the object name: • In custom objects it can be found as a related list in the object:
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- 19. Field Sets Where shouldwe use them? Visualforce pages and controllers. Fields that are sometimes presented and updated together.
- 20. Field Sets How touse them? Visualforce pages: • {!$ObjectType.Account.FieldSets.FieldSetName} Apex: • SObjectType.Account.FieldSets. FieldSetName.getFields()
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- 22. Custom Settings What isit? Similar to custom objects. Enable developers to create custom sets of data. Enable to create and associate custom data for an organization, profile, or specific user.
- 23. Custom Settings Why shouldwe use it? Access dictionary tables without querying. Can provide Profile-specific and User-specific tables.
- 24. Custom Settings Where canwe find them? Setup -> Build -> Develop -> Custom Settings
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- 28. Custom Settings How doI use them? Apex List Custom Setting: Hierarchy: CustomSettingsName__c.getInstance(UserId ProfileId);
- 29. Summary In this presentationwe covered: Custom Labels Field Sets Custom Settings
- 30. Roy Gilad Israel DUGLeader, @RoyGilad
- 31. Code is availablefor download at: https://gist.github.com/RoyGilad Presentation is available at: http://www.slideshare.net/RoyGilad/salesforce-codingtechniques-that-keep-your-admins-happy-df13