In recent months I have had weekly wonderful Salesforce Lightning sessions together with great DPG media colleagues Walter Stolle, Pablo Sijbrants, Niels Keuning and Pieter Peers. That’s why we decided to set up any number of blogs, with this a first step in a serie. The well-known topic within IT Architecture and Domain Driven Design are Modules or Microfrontends that have been blogged about before and that is why I would like to share through this blog how a module or Microfrontend set up in a Domain Driven Design Architecture is integrated into a Salesforce Architecture. Little was written ..read more

Developing for Salesforce is something I usually try to avoid. Salesforce is an off-the-shelf product, which you can tailor to your needs and wishes by changing things in the Setup. For most organizations, the functionality that is available straight out of the box will be enough. Sometimes you want a bit more, and that is where the development part steps in. There are several options for developing for Salesforce. You could simply use the Developer Console that Salesforce provides. This is a simple text-editor, that will be sufficient for small changes. But as a developer you want a bit mo ..read more

For a while the company I work at has been using a CPQ tool that is very specific to our business, and has been custom built as a standalone web application on the Heroku platform. The URL of the tool takes a Salesforce Opportunity ID as GET parameter, and uses standard Salesforce REST to retrieve Account, Contact, Opportunity data (which is then displayed on the quotes we send out). Current way of working is to open the tool from an Opportunity record in Salesforce, by clicking on a Custom Button (Content Source=URL), in which the Opportunity ID is passed on as a Merge Field. This means th ..read more

If you are a Salesforce user you probably have seen or used the global search box in the header. In most cases this global search will cover all the needs for its users. It is an important element in navigation through the Salesforce environment. But in this case the global search did not meet the requirements in order to create the right experience for the user. Also, the search component is the starting point of the user his journey. This makes it a crucial part of the interface. It resulted in a tailor-made search interface. To start with, the product owners made a list of ..read more

How to send an outbound message in Salesforce By creating a workflow rule in Salesforce, it is possible to send an outbound message to any receiving system. In order to accomplish such a message it is necessary to create a workflow rule. In Salesforce beneath setup you can create a new workflow rule. On creation you have to choose on which object the rule will be applied. After that there are still some choices to be made. Will it be send on creation or also on editing the record? Make your choice. But there is something to be aware of. You can not choose for a ..read more

The Global Search Box is the configurable search field at the top of the page available in Salesforce in both the Classic and Lightning edition that allows the user to quickly search within all standard and custom objects for records within the Salesforce database with values that match the completed search criteria. However, the Global Search Box in Lightning has some restrictions. Restrictions Restriction 1 Within the current standard functionality with the standard configuration, the Global Search Box shows all search results over the entire Salesforce database which may cause unwanted r ..read more