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Send Salesforce Record Data {as Email functionality} via WebMerge

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WebMerge  is a great platform that allows our data to populate different types of documents and send it to various other platforms or contact automatically through its enormous integrations with many online platforms Here’s a great feature available for Salesforce to use this WebMerge via its App. It’s a very easy app to configure and use. It gives us wonderful results while using its app in Salesforce. We can populate the  Salesforce record data  into different documents and send to various contacts as well as on various platforms. Now I am giving a very quick and simple guidance of using this app for sending Salesforce record data to different in emails in the form of a document. Steps for sending the email with merge fields from Salesforce via WebMerge: Click on  WebMerge Documents  tab. Create  New  Document. + Choose your Document Type and Click on  Create Document . + Format a Document and click on  Save and Next ...

CRON Expression in Salesforce

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Hello to all the Salesforce developers, here in this blog I am covering a very crucial topic that we all use in our coding skills - CRON expression. As we all know that Salesforce provide us a very great feature of Scheduling an apex class. In standard way through customization part, we can schedule an apex class with frequency of weekly days or monthly dates with a preferred start time. But through CRON expression we can schedule an apex with our customized date time or occurrence through code. That’s an interesting feature that Salesforce allows developers to customize according to their own need and scenario. What is CRON? CRON is  a software utility that is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. Developers who want to set up and maintain software environments, use this cron to schedule jobs (commands or shell scripts) to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. What is CRON expression? A CRON expression is basically a s...

URL Hacking in Salesforce – Episode 3

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HEY!!! Welcome back,  previously in  URL Hacking Episode 2 ,   we see how to make possible and working of the pre-populated field values via custom button. Now in this episode, we will make clear some interesting queries about pre-populating custom fields and lookup fields. As we know that Salesforce gives us a wonderful ability to create custom fields for every sobject so that our data would be strong for any CRM database. Salesforce holds up many data related to any record in its database. Let’s suppose you want to pre-populate that custom fields and it comprises of any field type so How can you achieve this? Are you using the same method as shown in previous episodes? Do they work similarly as the standard fields? Is there any difference between them? Many such questions may arise  in your mind. So lets play around this and know how it really works. Salesforce identifies everything on the basis of their “ ID ”. So we have to get the cu...