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📣 #TDX26 is just ONE week away! Need help getting your schedule locked?   

Start with the Salesforce Admin’s Guide to #TDX26 to map out your plan. It covers what to watch whether you’re joining in person or on Salesforce+.  

➡️ Take a look. ⬅️@Admin Addicts @* Salesforce Administrators * @* Salesforce Platform *

Hi Everyone, 

I wanted to share a workaround in case anyone is trying to complete the TDX Quest 2026 and gets stuck on the Quick Start: Slackbot for Sales Planning

badge. 

If the primary email address associated with your Trailhead account is already connected to an active Slack org, the challenge may fail. 

Based on what I observed in Trailhead profile settings under Connected Accounts, the provisioning process appears to use the primary email address on the Trailhead profile instead of the connected account email intended for the challenge

. If that primary email address is already tied to an active Slack workspace or org, Slack Playground creation may fail and return this error: 

“We had an issue creating your Slack Playground. Please refresh the page and try again.” 

I also found that after the initial failure, updating the admin user email address in the Salesforce Playground org did not

resolve the issue. The module still failed during challenge validation, which suggests the original email association may still be referenced somewhere in the Slack Playground or validation flow. 

Workaround that worked for me:

1.  Create a brand new Gmail account 
2.  Create a brand new Trailhead account using that same email address 
3.  Start the Quick Start: Slackbot for Sales Planning module over from the beginning 
4.  Create a brand new Slack Playground and Salesforce Playground environment where the Trailhead and Slack email identities are a 1:1 match 
5.  Complete the badge. 
6.  Manually merge your Trailhead accounts afterward to complete your TDX Quest. 

I hope this helps anyone else who gets stuck in this strange little identity swamp. Happy Friday!

@Markus Neubrand and myself will be presenting the Apex Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming session at #TDX26. 

Major areas covered will explore upcoming features, like enhancements to strings, a change in the default security model, and enhancements to asynchronous limits.   

Wednesday, Apr 15  

2:00 PM - 2:40 PM PDT

Room 2010 (Breakout, Level 2)

Thursday, Apr 16

4:00 PM - 4:40 PM PDT

Alcove 2022 (Breakout, Level 2)

Join Peter Churchill, Mitch Spano, and myself at #TDX26 for our presentation to Deep Dive into Apex Best Practices for Apps and Agents

Major areas covered include asynchronous patterns, concurrency scaling, exception logging, trigger, and other advanced Apex best practices for building enterprise agents and apps. 

Sessions: <Agenda Builder>  

Thursday, Apr 16

3:00 PM - 3:40 PM PDT

Room 2007 (Breakout, Level 2) 

📸 Datablazers Meetup & Photo Op at TDX

Are you attending TDX?

Join us for a quick Datablazers meetup to connect, share perspectives, and celebrate what we’ve been building together as a community. 

Wednesday, April 15, 4-4:20 pm outside of Community Cove (TDX registration required)

We’ll also take a group photo and recognize a few significant milestones:

• New Trailhead badges
  • Data Reliability Risk Factors for AI
  • AI Data Readiness Assessment Fundamentals
• New Trail: Explore Data Quality Fundamentals
  • Data Management Fundamentals (Updated)
  • Data Profiling Fundamentals
  • Data Cleansing Fundamentals
  • with three additional badges on Enrichment, Profile Unification, and Monitoring by June
• Data 360 Decision Guide

created by the community, for the community and launching at TDX this week.

Looking forward to seeing many of you there—let’s make it a great moment for the community.  We are better together.

#Datablazers #TDX26

I’m thrilled to share that I have officially reached Agentblazer Legend status!

Completing the Agentblazer 2026 Legend Trail was an intense but rewarding journey. Navigating the modifications and updates within the two superbadges really pushed me to understand the nuances of the platform. It feels great to see how all those different dots finally connect.

A big thank you to @Misbah Ul Iman and all the organizers of the 

#TDX26AgentblazerChallenge @WFD Partner Cohort: TDX2630DaysChallenge

 for the motivation to keep pushing forward!

#Trailhead #TDX26

Tune in to #TDX26 True to the Core Deep Dive: Agentforce. 

Our experts will answer your questions, listen to the challenges you're facing, & discuss how that feedback is shaping what comes next. 

⏰ Apr 16, 12 p.m. CDT 

Watch on Salesforce+: http://sfdc.co/bcAPIi