Blog – Salesforce

So you’re heading to Salesforce’s mega conference – Dreamforce – next week and it’s your first time.  You don’t want to appear to be a newbie and you want to make your time productive.  It would also be great to show your boss that it was worth the time and expense to send you out…

In my role as Business Development Manager at Soliant, I often talk to clients who are considering Salesforce. We know that Salesforce is not a one-shoe-fits-all solution, but something that must be customized to fit our client’s needs. With the help of Soliant’s Salesforce team, we create not only the solution our client has always…

One of the scariest things I ever encountered in my work life was a salesperson when asked how he remembered potential leads. He answered, “Up here,” and pointed to his head. Perhaps he had a savant memory, but considering most of us don’t, we need something more to go on. Equally alarming was meeting with…

Ant: Your Configuration Migration Tool for Salesforce Ant (Another Neat Tool) is a Java tool that performs tasks based on XML instructions. It serves as a great configuration migration tool for Salesforce. You give it an XML configuration file with the details of the possible tasks to perform. Then tell it the task you’d like…

Are DML changes rolled back when an exception occurs in Visualforce? It is clear from the official Salesforce documentation that all database modifications initiated from a trigger are rolled back when an exception occurs. We can look at it as if the application server started a transaction in our behalf, and handled the roll back…

July 2017 Update: Force.com has been replaced with App Cloud licensing options. Learn more about the change and how to transition here. In most organizations, not everyone needs access to full-blown CRM functionality.  There might be users who never touch Leads or Opportunities, need read-only access to just Accounts and Contacts, or maybe a custom…

Team development in the Salesforce platform can be very frustrating if you don’t have the right process defined. For developers used to “traditional” software development, it can be painful (it was for us), until you figure out the right way to do it. Here at Soliant Consulting, we have been working on defining the right…