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Posted on April 5, 2022 by Tony Scott

I started this blog back in 2013 and have neglected it in recent years, mainly on account of my work commItments and treading that fine line called conflict of interests. As my WordPress hosting comes to an end soon, I…

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Pre-populating Standard Page Layouts

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Tony Scott

Warning: This uses undocumented methods. As with any code that relies on anything undocumented it’s not supported and it’s prone to breaking without warning so don’t rely on it working tomorrow! It’s a known hidden feature of Salesforce that you can…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, salesforce, SOQL
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The Trouble with Dates and Times

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Tony Scott

Dates and DateTimes don’t always play nicely when you’re trying to push them through from environment to environment. You often have to mess about with them a bit to shoehorn them in and out of Salesforce. I’m going to look…

Tagged with: apex, dates, force.com, javascript, JSON, salesforce
Posted in apex, code, force.com, salesforce

Mocking Multiple HTTP Requests to the Same Endpoint

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Tony Scott

My Blog posts are like buses. You don’t see one for ages and then two come along at once. I was musing, like you do, what to do when Unit Testing a service that makes successive call-outs to the same…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, salesforce, testing
Posted in apex, code, force.com, salesforce, Uncategorized

Wrapping Custom Metadata to Support Unit Testing

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Tony Scott

My last post looked at using a wrapper class to make Custom Settings more convenient to access from apex code and to ease defaulting and unit testing. If, like me, you’ve taken the leap to using Custom Metadata instead of…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, salesforce, testing
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Wrapping Custom Settings to Provide Defaults and Ease Unit Testing

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Tony Scott

I have a little pattern I use for wrapping custom settings. It has two uses, first to provide sensible defaults if the settings have not been configured and secondly to make writing unit tests easier with predictable values. If you’ve…

Tagged with: apex, deployment, force.com, testing
Posted in apex, code, force.com, salesforce

Connecting to Salesforce using OAuth 2.0 from PHP

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Tony Scott

Introduction Salesforce, with its rich set of APIs allows endless integration with 3rd party systems. The key to accessing Salesforce from another system, be it a Web App, Mobile device or even a command line script, is logging on and…

Tagged with: apex, connectivity, dropbox, force.com, OAuth, PHP, salesforce
Posted in apex, code, force.com, PHP, salesforce

Lightning Lookup Component – <aura:if> workaround

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Tony Scott

For those of you having tried to implement the Lightning Lookup from my post: https://meltedwires.com/2015/10/31/salesforce-lightning-lookup-component-v2/ You may have experienced what appears to be a platform bug surrounding <aura:if> that results in the friendly, yet uninformative error: “Something has gone wrong. Cannot read property ‘childNodes’…

Posted in apex, code, force.com, lightning, salesforce, Uncategorized

Paris 13-12-2015

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Tony Scott

My girlfriend and I were lucky to escape from Le Bataclan on Friday night in Paris while watching The Eagles of Death Metal. We survived thanks to the love and compassion of the people of Paris and we thank them…

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Salesforce Lightning Lookup Component : Version 2

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Tony Scott

Version 2 This is Version 2 of the Salesforce Lightning Lookup Component. I had one of those, ‘Why didn’t I do it like that instead?‘ moments in the shower this morning. Essentially, it’s less code as I’ve done away with the rendering…