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Salesforce – Web to Lead – Set Currency

This will probably be my shortest blog post ever but I came across a simple web to lead issue today. I wanted to default a currency in to a hidden field as the org that I was working in had multi-currency enabled. Not doing this would have meant that users would have resulted in bad [...]

Build a quick create lightning component

Having previously looked at displaying a list of contacts beside the account details, I am now going to build a quick create component to also add to the page. While this could be done with a quick action without any code, the idea here is to build a structure that could be extended to add [...]

Build a Lightning Component Data Table using SLDS

Thinking of building some lightning components and want to style them to fit in with the lightning ui – then read on! Even if you are not using the lightning yet, this component looks pretty good in the classic ui too. I have built this using the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) which allows you [...]

Apex – Populate a lookup relationship using an External ID

There are a few different ways to do this but recently I came across a really easy way that I thought I should share with everyone! In this example I have an Account and I have another object called AccountChild__c. The Account object has a field called ExternalID__c (which is an External Id field) and the [...]

Echosign/Adobe Sign Data Validation before Sending a Contract

In this post I will show how you can validate that all the relevant data has been entered for a contract when using Adobe Sign (formerly Echosign) with Salesforce. Usually a Echosign contract is generated by clicking a button on a record in Salesforce. This method avoids using any javascript buttons and as it uses [...]