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New to Developing with Salesforce? Check out These Resources!

*Updated: 2 October 2024

Welcome - we are so glad you're here. These resources will help you get an understanding of why you might want to become a Salesforce developer, what type of development you'd like to focus on, and great ways to connect and build your network. 

• Blog Posts 
  • What is a Salesforce Developer?
  • 12 Reasons to Become a Salesforce Developer
  • The Beginners Guide to Getting Started with Salesforce Development
• For 3rd Party Developers, check out our curated Salesforce Developer Learning Journey:
  • Explore Core Salesforce Developer Responsibilities
  • Implement Low-Code Automation
  • Dive Deeper Into Salesforce Development Tools and Concepts
  • Build Experiences with Lightning
  • Secure Your App
  • Prepare for Development Opportunities in the Salesforce Ecosystem
• The Salesforce Developer Careers Page will enable you to learn about the opportunities and skills required for each type of Salesforce Developer: Platform, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Slack, MuleSoft, Tableau, and more. 
• HowToDev_is your fast track to getting started with Salesforce development! This seven-part video series covers everything you need to know. 
• Get Started with Hands-On Salesforce Platform Development:
  • The Developer Beginner trail
  • The Developer Intermediate trail
  • The Developer Advanced trail
  • Get Started with Salesforce Development (Project)
• Connect with Salesforce Developers:
  • Tune in to our monthly Salesforce Developers Ask Me Anything sessions! We bring you closer to Salesforce product experts so you can learn from the best. 
  • Find your local Salesforce Developer meetup group or community conference and join the in-person community for networking, skills development, and career growth.
  • Get the latest developer updates delivered straight to your inbox when you sign up for the Salesforce Developer Newsletter.
• And don't forget to grab a free Salesforce Developer Edition, for a full-featured copy of the platform

If you're a Java developer (welcome!), here are some specific resources for you: 

• An Introduction to Apex for Java Developers
• Apex for NodeJS Developers
  • See episode 1
  • See episode 2
  • See episode 3

Have suggestions for future types of content? Let us know in the comments below!

Hi everyone,

I'm working on integrating a custom digital proposal system with Salesforce using an API connection via OAuth 2.0. However, we are encountering an "unsupported_grant_type" error when attempting to authenticate.

Setup Details:

• We created a Connected App in Salesforce.
• We are using the password-based OAuth flow with the following cURL request:

bashCopyEditcurl -X POST https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token \    -d "grant_type=password" \    -d "client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID" \    -d "client_secret=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET" \    -d "username=YOUR_USERNAME" \    -d "password=YOUR_PASSWORD_WITH_SECURITY_TOKEN"

• Postman was used to test the connection, and the error persists.Troubleshooting Done So Far:

✅ Verified the client_id, client_secret, username, and password (with security token)

. 

✅ Checked that the 

Connected App

 allows all users to self-authorize. 

✅ Ensured that the user has 

"API Enabled"

 permission. 

✅ 

IP Relaxation is set to "Relax IP restrictions"

Please be kind enough to guide on how to resolve this issue. Thank you in advance!  

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A Real-World Apex Challenge: 

Scenario: Your client wants to update ALL related contacts 

when an Account’s industry changes, but Governor Limits are blocking your Apex trigger.   

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I have one datatable embedded in a parent component, last column of data table is editable but in case of inline editing, the box is not opening up for some screen size and it's varying machine to machine. I added some padding thinking it will provide some space for it to open up, but it worked for my machine not other's. problem lies in different screen size resolution in different machine, Any idea what to do? 

<div  class="parent-container">                        <c-custom-datatable                                columns={taskColumns}                                data={taskData}                                draft-values={taskDraftValues}                                key-field="whatId"                                oncellchange={handleTaskCellEdit}                                onrowselection={rowSelection}                                selected-rows={taskSelection}                                show-checkbox-column                                suppress-bottom-bar                        >                        </c-custom-datatable>                    </div>

@* Salesforce Developers *

Hi,  

I have written a apex class , in which I need to schedule that class every 5 minute.  

I tried executing below Approaches : 

Option 2: This executing every 5 mins per hour
 global with sharing class ScheduleBatchApexDemo implements Schedulable {global void execute(SchedulableContext sc) { PricingEventReviewAggregatorContract.createPricingLogItemsContract();}Public static void SchedulerMethod() {  string timeinterval = '0 5 * * * ?';  System.schedule('ScheduledDemo-Every5mins',timeinterval, new ScheduleBatchApexDemo());  }}

Please help if there is any optimized approach 

@* Salesforce Developers *

Option 1 : Executed code in anonymous window. But I dont want to have n number of scheduled Jobs. System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 1',  '0 00 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 2',  '0 05 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 3',  '0 10 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 4',  '0 15 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 5',  '0 20 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 6',  '0 25 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 7',  '0 30 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 8',  '0 35 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 9',  '0 40 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 10', '0 45 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 11', '0 50 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());System.schedule('Schedule Job Name 12', '0 55 * * * ?', new ScheduleBatchApexClassExample());

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Hi community, I wanted to redirect the button I created in visualforce page to a create record form. 

In the experience cloud home page. 

<apex:outputLink value="{!URLFOR($Action.Application__c.New)}"  

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    </apex:outputLink> 

These code is not working when I published as the attached ss error msg, but works fine when I preview it in my visualforce page, it opens to create record page but in Salesforce classic.  

Is it because the visualforce page component in experience cloud has a record id as shown in ss? 

@* Experience Cloud * @* Salesforce Developers *

Hi All,

I want to learn the LWC in Salesforce.

Could anyone please provide the roadmap that I need to follow.

If possible could please share the resources as well

Thanks in advance 😇

Bindu Nair and myself will be presenting the Apex Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming session at #TDX25

. 

Major areas covered will include Zip processing in Apex, dynamic formulas, cursors, and deprecated globals.  

Sessions (Agenda Builder)

Thursday, Mar 6

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM PST

Theater 4 (Level 3) 

Thursday, Mar 6

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM PST

Theater 3 (Campground, Level 2)