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Are You Ready For Custom Metadata?!

Are You Ready For Custom Metadata?!

Salesforce are once again staying true to one of their mottos, “Clicks, not code!”, with a release that is currently being tested on the pilot scheme. 

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GDPR is coming – is your Salesforce data ready?

GDPR is coming – is your Salesforce data ready?

Last week’s 3rd London’s Calling event brought together 40 speakers across 6 streams to give the lowdown on the latest and greatest tools techniques and trends for Salesforce trailblazers. Obviously one of the hottest topics was of course GDPR.

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Better ‘Times’ Ahead

Better ‘Times’ Ahead

There are certain new features which bring a sigh of relief to developers and admins alike, which introduce something we’ve been waiting for for a long time.

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Why Switch to Lightning?

Why Switch to Lightning?

We naturally don’t like change. Not leaving our comfort zone is what we prefer to do. This has also been the case most of the time regarding switching to the Lightning experience. I attended two different sessions that discussed the benefits of switching to Lightning.

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Quip grows following Attic Labs acquisition

Quip grows following Attic Labs acquisition

It feels as if a new acquisition was announced every week a while back but that it has been a while. However it is always really good to see where the focusses are. This year it looks as if Quip will be one of those focuses.

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GDPR: Why Marketers Should Love It

GDPR: Why Marketers Should Love It

With January now over, we only have 16 weeks to go until the General Data Protection Regulation kicks in, enforcing changes to how we communicate with our prospects and customers. Following a more strict policy that focuses on customer rights, businesses that have data on EU citizens will have to target prospects who have explicitly […]

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Please don’t use static flags to control Apex Trigger recursion!

Please don’t use static flags to control Apex Trigger recursion!

Trigger recursion in Apex can be a bit hard to get your head around. Often it is indirect, so hard to diagnose. What can happen is that

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Why are we so excited about London’s Calling 2018?

Why are we so excited about London’s Calling 2018?

Why are we so excited about next month’s biggest Salesforce event, London’s Calling? I’m sure we have different reasons for attending this event. It might be because of its convenience of being in London, or a specific Keynote topic, or it might be your first time attending and you would like to see what it’s […]

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Managing Opt-ins and Email Preferences in Pardot

Managing Opt-ins and Email Preferences in Pardot

2018 was the year of GDPR. The new EU regulations came into force on 25 May 2018 and have implications for all personal data that is collected, stored, processed and used by companies. It should be an organisation-wide initiative to ensure you start to be (and remain) GDPR-compliant.

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Salesforce is upgrading Leads in Spring ’18

Salesforce is upgrading Leads in Spring ’18

Spring ’18 looks set to deliver big functionality changes to the way Leads are handled in Salesforce and in the process are fixing a number of issues that have been around for years. Here are 3 new things to looks out for:

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Editing Salesforce Objects in Custom Lightning Components With NO JAVASCRIPT

When it comes to writing custom user-interface code in Salesforce, Lightning is where it’s at. You could write it in Visualforce, but sooner or later you’ll have to convert it to Lightning. Lightning provides a far richer experience. It allows you to view related data more easily, and see that data change in real-time. One […]

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Salesforce Spring ’18 and GDPR

As the deadline for GDPR moves ever closer, we’re now starting to see opt-in’s appearing on web forms, and marketers are working harder than ever to ensure all aspects of data compliance are met. But how do we ensure we’ve recorded the compliance data within Salesforce correctly? Although subject to change, Spring ’18 will allow […]

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