Author: zeusexam

The after event Then, we can update the after update part on the trigger (some parts of the code have been hidden for simplicity; refer to this book’s GitHub repository for the full code):  1. trigger OpportunityTrigger on Opportunity (before insert, before 2. update, after insert, after update) { 3.     4.     //current record (supposing only one opportunity can…

Schedule it right now! In the previous section, I demonstrated that even after hours of study, you can make mistakes and get the wrong answer. This shouldn’t mean that you should procrastinate and forestall signing up to your exam forever: believe me, you can study as much as you can, but there will always be…

Failure is an option First, don’t be afraid to fail. Failure is the perfect way to learn. Would you believe me when I say that I passed all these tests without a Result: FAILED message? Let’s take the Advanced Administrator certification as an example. It took me two attempts to clear the exam: in the…

Need more resources? This book covers all the topics, but some more examples and point of views on the same subjects can give you even more confidence. I suggest you to jump to Trailhead and complete the Advanced Administrator Trailmix at https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/users/strailhead/trailmixes/prepare-for-your-salesforce-advanced-administrator-credential, which covers a bunch of the topics as well. This is not a…

Tips and Tricks for Passing Your Exam This whole book is meant to be a structured trail to give you all the content you need to increase your chances of passing the Salesforce Advanced Administrator test (and to improve your skills, of course). Throughout the chapters so far, I’ve tried to give you hints and…

Importing external knowledge Before ending this section, let’s spend a few minutes talking about how we can import articles into Salesforce Knowledge that come from external sources (that is, an old knowledge system or an external website). The process of importing articles involves creating a ZIP file containing all the required information. To do this,…

User interface development Way back in 2009, when I took my first steps into the Salesforce world, the first thing my boss asked me to develop was a four-step wizard in Visualforce for our most valuable customer, to be used to grab customer data to activate a new contract in the utilities industry. I had…

Visualforce is a technology that is becoming outdated in favor of the Aura Framework and the brand-new Lightning Web Components (LWC) framework. As many customers still use Visualforce pages (I guess there are millions and millions of pages out there live in production), there are no current plans to retire it, but it is highly…

Manual sharing Manual sharing is the ability for a record’s owner to give access to that record (and also other related records) to other users who are not necessarily included in their hierarchy. If you give another user access to an account record, that user would be able to access cases and opportunities. At the…

Working with sharing rules Like any other sharing method other than OWD, sharing rules cannot restrict access to records. To create a new sharing rule, go to Setup | Security | Sharing Settings, choose an object in the Sharing Rules section, and click the New button: There are two different kinds of sharing rules: Criteria-based…