Salesforce Deployment Tools

What is deployment? A Deployment includes all the processes required for preparing a software application to run and operate in a specific environment. It involves installation, configuration, testing and making changes to optimize the performance of the software. It can either be carried out manually or through automated systems. In today’s article, different tools and techniques will be discussed to deploy your changes on the Salesforce Platform. Salesforce Deployment is nothing but copying/transferring Salesforce metadata from one Salesforce organization to another.

Marketing Cloud API Capabilities

The Marketing Cloud API is a vast integration ecosystem that offers a wide range of different capabilities on the Salesforce platform. Marketing Cloud offers two robust APIs: REST and SOAP. Each API has its benefits, so sometimes you may even use both, depending on your needs. Marketing Cloud Applications REST API You can create content, build your contact records, and monitor your customer journeys with the Marketing Cloud REST API listed below: - Contact Builder - Content Builder - GroupConnect - MobileConnect - MobilePush - Journey Builder - Personalization Builder

Demystifying Chatter Objects

Chatter is a powerful tool. It enables information sharing, collaboration, visibility, general and record-specific conversations, feed tracking for specific records or individuals, and the option to create public or private groups. In today’s article, we dissect the core Chatter objects and the relationship between chatter objects. Key Identification Fields A feed item is an entry in the feed, such as a change to a record that’s being followed, an updated post, or a user status change.

Multiple Currencies Considerations

Using Multiple Currencies As many businesses need to handle their sales and marketing in multiple currencies (JMD, USD, EUR, etc), Salesforce comes with a built functionality called currency management, which pretty much allows administrators to set up and manage multiple currencies and their exchange rates efficiently. The administrator sets the “corporate currency”, which reflects the currency of the corporate headquarters. Each user has a personal currency, which is used as the default currency.

Field History Tracking

In today’s article, the concept of field tracking will be discussed in detail. So what is field history tracking on the Salesforce platform? this feature allows the system to maintain a current and previous value for a given field on an object, given that the field data type permits it. In laymen terms, Field History tracking is a method where we can track the changes that happen to a field.