Business rule engine which would fullfill most common usecases in Salesforce

Building a business rule engine requires a lot of planning and consideration of different use cases. Below is an example of how to implement a simple business rule engine in Salesforce that fulfills common use cases: First, we need to define the rules in a way that can be easily configured and maintained. We can use custom metadata types to store the rules and their associated actions. Each rule will have a set of conditions that must be met, and an action that should be performed when the conditions are true. Next, we need to create a trigger...

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Solution to overcome Heap Size error in Salesforce

When building Lightning Web Components (LWC), we may encounter the "Total heap size as 12 MB" error when working with large data sets or complex logic. This error occurs when the total size of data stored in memory (heap) exceeds 12 MB. To overcome this error, we can implement the following best practices: Use @wire to retrieve data from Apex instead of retrieving it directly in the component. This allows Salesforce to handle the data retrieval and pagination, reducing the amount of data stored in memory. Use LightningDatatable with pagination...

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Configured Time Based Workflow for 5 mins or 10 or 15 etc... in salesforce

Salesforce supports only for hours and days time based workflows.But Some times we want to fire time based workflows for every 5 mins or 10 mins or 15mins etc.. I read @jdavidson909 article.This article will helpful for many developers to test time based workflow ,no need to wait for 1hr .simply  configure its to 5 mins and then developer can test easily . First, on the object that you need the workflow on, create a new custom formula field that evaluates to a Date/Time value.  I called my field Trigger...

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Sometimes you may only want the validation rule to prevent saves for some people

Sometimes you may only want the validation rule to prevent saves for some people. In that case, I like to use a hierarchical custom setting so I can turn off validation rules for the entire org, specific profiles or specific users. In your validation rule formula, you can reference hierarchical settings using $Setup.Setting_Name__c.Field_Name__c. So, putting it all together, here is what I think a good validation rule should look like: Source...

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Important Summer 14 Release Notes

Hi, There are so many interesting things come in Summer 14 Release.Below are some important points. Increased the size limit for attachments to objects from 5 MB to 25 MB. Increased the size limit for incoming email messages from 10 MB to 25 MB. The limit has been raised from three to seven for external IDs on custom fields Increased the size limit for email messages that come in through On-Demand Email-to-Case from 10MB to 25MB, Salesforce 1 : Users can now submit records for approval from the Salesforce1 app. Opportunity Splits: Complete...

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Salesforce Integration with Twilio

Hi guys,   For instance ,whenever contact is created or updated,Customer can get the welcome call or any custom voice message.  for this i created "CustomerType" Picklist,based on this picklist customer will receive the call.  Values of Picklist: Gold,Silver  For below example ,call will send only for "Gold" type customers.  First of all we have to create an account on twilio website. Twilio website provides two type of account . a.) Free account:-   In this type account you can call to any number around the...

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Auto populate Primary contact role Email Id as ‘To’ and Non Primary Contact Roles Emails as ‘CC’ List.

Hello, Scenario  : Client want to send Emails to Primary contact role as well as non primary contact roles,also in the form of Auto populate Primary contact role Email Id as ‘To’ and Non Primary Contact Roles Emails as ‘CC’ List . Below  are the steps to follow. Steps to Create List Button: 1) Create List Button On Task Object.  2) Content Source type should be URL. 3) Give Url :/apex/SupportSalesOptyEmailMgmtPage?eid={!Opportunity.Id} Visualforce Page: <apex:page standardController="opportunity"...

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