Category: Weekly Newsletter

Learn new ways to innovate and hear from Trailblazers around the world. Tune in at 10 a.m. PT every Tuesday in October for product news, demos, and a sneak peek at our latest roadmaps.

October 6 – Trailhead: New Skills for the New Normal
October 13 – Salesforce Developers: Scale with Confidence
October 20 – Salesforce Admins: Go Digital Fast
October 27 – IT Leaders: One Platform
October 27 – True to the Core: Live Q&A with Salesforce Product Leaders

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Skip the Infrastructure, Get Straight to Development

It’s a skill that can take years to hone. The tools that developers use can be foreign to other folks. Things like “the CLI” or “IDE’s” or “git”. Like any other specialization, developers speak their own language, and over the decades have developed tools that are aimed at their use case.

Also, the craft of development is hard. If you think about it, we are writing step by step instructions for computers to execute. We are pretty darn close to running at the bottom of the stack, right?

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In our fall 2020 issue, you’ll read how our community is finding comfort in everyday activities and in each other. A group brought together by a love of cooking and food, a grandparent who started a virtual book club for little Trailblazers, two friends who built an app to help animal shelters. Trailblazers turn to technology to meet challenges head-on and drive change.

There is no greater comfort than our community. We hope these stories about building relationships, making connections, and moving forward inspire you as much as they do us.

In this issue, you’ll also find: 

• Virtual team building ideas 
• Labs LWC Competition & Demo Jam Recap 
• A fun Appy pumpkin carving template

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This year’s Limitless centers on agility — celebrating marketers’ ability to endure and excel through change.

During this virtual event, you will: 

Hear from Salesforce leadership on the current marketing landscape 

Learn from inspiring Trailblazers on digital transformation 

See the latest Datorama product innovations

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UCSF and Salesforce Launch Free Contact Tracing Course on Trailhead

Across the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a need for an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 contact tracers to help limit the spread and safely reopen the economy.

To that end, today the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) unveiled a free course on Trailhead, Salesforce’s online learning platform, to help anyone learn the fundamentals of contact tracing. The approximately 3.5-hour course covers the science of the virus, its impact on public health, interview techniques, and effective communication skills. The content is developed and taught by experts at UCSF’s School of Medicine through a series of on-demand video lessons.

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Salesforce launched the new Digital 360 — tailoring the power of the Customer 360 for the digital leader — to help you do exactly that. It combines our industry-leading Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and Experience Cloud, world-class partner ecosystem, and free on-demand learning through Trailhead so you can get more from digital.

Digital 360 is a natural result of the work we do every day with some of the biggest brands in the world. Here’s a look at how you can get more from digital, with success stories from Salesforce customers to inspire you.

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Made just for partners, it’s expert training at your fingertips. Learn at your own pace from anywhere in the world.

• Boost Salesforce skills with expert training
• Quickly grow your Salesforce expertise
• Decrease time to value for your customers

Want to know how Partner Learning Camp lines up with your Salesforce learning? Use this guide to map your success.

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AppExchange Tech Talk

Join us for another action-packed AppExchange Tech Talk as we begin a multi-week series discussing the Salesforce Platform Product Roadmap for partners. You won’t want to miss this week’s episode as we showcase and share insights on the latest Platform technology for partners.

We encourage all Consulting and AppExchange (ISV) partners who are in a technical role to join – including CTOs, developers, architects, and more.

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Learn new ways to innovate and hear from Trailblazers around the world. Tune in at 10 a.m. PT every Tuesday in October for product news, demos, and a sneak peek at our latest roadmaps.

October 6 – Trailhead: New Skills for the New Normal
October 13 – Salesforce Developers: Scale with Confidence
October 20 – Salesforce Admins: Go Digital Fast
October 27 – IT Leaders: One Platform
October 27 – True to the Core: Live Q&A with Salesforce Product Leaders

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New product innovations for Digital 360 include Customer 360 Audiences, a customer data platform for marketers to unify, segment and activate all of their customer data; Commerce Cloud Payments, an out-of-the-box payment solution powered by Stripe; and Experience Cloud to build CRM-powered digital experiences, fast.

“Every company has gone digital overnight because of the pandemic,” said Adam Blitzer, EVP & GM, Digital. “With Digital 360, we’re delivering the full power of Salesforce tailored to digital leaders—our products, ecosystem, learning and expert services—enabling them to move with the speed, agility and scale they need to operate at Black Friday levels every single day.”

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Learn how Sustainability Cloud

Analyzing carbon emissions from energy usage and company travel can be daunting and time-consuming. But with all your data flowing directly onto one platform, you can efficiently quantify your carbon footprint. Formulate a climate action plan for your company from a single source of truth, built on our trusted and secure data platform.

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Enhancing developer productivity is why Commerce Cloud built the Commerce Cloud Developer Center, a new public developer portal for all developers building commerce applications. The Commerce Cloud Developer Center is the primary source of information and guidance for developing on the Salesforce commerce platform. Developers can access all of the resources and best practices —including documentation and APIs— and also participate in a thriving developer community.

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Today, the Tableau team releases the Tableau Visualization Lightning Web Component. This component lets you integrate any Tableau visualizations into Lightning pages and Communities thanks to the Tableau JavaScript API. You can install it as a managed package from the AppExchange (preferred option as you’ll get updates) or deploy it from the Open Source project on GitHub.

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Summer 20 | Developer Quick Takes

The Summer ’20 release brings changes to Salesforce FlexiPage metadata. If you need to use new FlexiPage features, you may need to update your FlexiPage metadata before deploying to a new Summer ’20 org. This video walks you through the updates you’ll need to make to your existing metadata.

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Let’s take a quick tour of what’s new for Apex in Winter ’21: We’ll look at two major highlights, starting with a brand new language operator that makes it substantially easier to work with null values. Then, we’ll take a look at new sObject error management methods that enable writing true unit tests around DML error logic. Don’t forget to follow up with a peek at the release notes for plenty of other Apex features and improvements that are part of this release

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When you first started building your Salesforce implementation, probably anything that was deployed was peppy and responsive. Searches responded instantly. Page loads were less than two seconds. All the users could be fully engaged without any noticeable effect on the system.

Now you need to grow the system, whether that means user base, data volume, or transactions per second. Furthermore, you’re asked to confirm that your solution will perform at-scale. This article provides guidance on how to solve these challenges through performance testing.

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How to Deal with the Salesforce Insufficient Privileges Error

If your organization uses the Principle of Least Privilege or is utilizing the new Minimum Access User Profile, then you’ll need to check and verify that the permissions in the user’s permission set are there. On the user detail page, scroll to the Permission Set Assignments related list and click each permission set. On the permission set overview page, click Object Settings, and review the assigned object permissions. Review the user permissions in the App Permissions and system Permissions sections. Repeat these steps for each permission set assigned to the user.

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Our Winter ’21 release is almost here and we want to make sure you have all the information you need to make the most of all the new features. We may not be in the studio this time, but we still have our product managers coming to you live. They’ll guide you through what’s new and give you a sneak peek into their roadmap for the rest of 2020.

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ISV Partners are invited to take part in an Einstein Analytics for ISV Hackathon! Access to Salesforce Partner Community, Google Drive, & GitHub required. Restrictions apply. Read Rules

Build an Einstein Analytics application using the NEW Einstein Analytics Embedded for ISV license. This license allows OEM partners to include EA with their solutions, with up to 25M rows of data.

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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Mobify

Mobify will provide Salesforce Commerce Cloud with a modern storefront solution that will allow brands to customize their commerce experiences faster and more frequently, deliver an enhanced shopping experience across any channel, and further increase conversion and revenue to drive success in the digital-first economy.

Global brands such as Under Armour and Shiseido rely on Mobify to provide a modern progressive web app experience and the infrastructure to host, scale, and secure their digital storefronts in a headless environment so they can stay ahead of customer demands and deliver a lightning-fast experience across all devices. 

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Join the next AppExchange Tech Talk on 9/10 at 11 am PT to get an insider’s perspective on how the AppExchange team reviews partner apps. App Exchange will be sharing the top tips you need to know in order to pass security review with flying colors. If you’re currently building a new app or going through security review for the first time, don’t miss out on this exclusive Tech Talk.

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In the blink of an eye, the retail industry changed. The majority of retailers closed their doors to adhere to shelter-in-place orders. Big box and grocery retailers barely kept up with demand while non-essential retailers were left with excess inventory. Digital shopping surged.

As restrictions lift, you may have already reopened your doors or are planning to do so. Regardless of where you are on your journey, this playbook will help you adapt today and prepare for future unexpected events while building a new level of confidence with shoppers.

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Custom Notifications for your Mobile SDK Apps

Salesforce Mobile SDK enables developers to build custom mobile applications tailored to their specific business and UI needs. With the release of Salesforce Mobile SDK 8.2, you can now include custom notifications in your Mobile SDK applications. This has been a huge request from our customers who will now be able to leverage all the great aspects of the Salesforce Notification Builder feature.

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***SPECIAL OFFER***

Register through October 31st, 2020 at the special price of $199 USD per learner (normally $900 USD). Simply use the promo TVB450AMER199-2020-06 at registration checkout to unlock your discount.*

*Terms and Conditions: Promotion available for a limited time and subject to change. Promo code will be valid for one-time use on any Trailhead Virtual Bootcamp for Platform Developer I class booked through October 31, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. (local time). Promo code cannot be combined with other offers. Registration is non-transferable.

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Integration is the process that enables systems within a company to communicate with each other. It’s a common bottleneck that keeps organizations from optimizing, resulting in data silos and inefficiency. Data is necessary in order to achieve digital transformation, but that data lives in thousands of systems and apps. This slows down innovation.

Companies are facing increasing consumer expectations and shifting market conditions, creating demand for data integration projects. Right now, 92% of IT leaders say their integration needs go beyond IT and encompass a wide range of business functions. Every function in the organization depends on connecting applications, data sources, and devices for day-to-day work.

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FALL IN #LOWCODELOVE

Complete a #LowCodeLove trailmix(es) Each complete trailmix earns a community badge and a chance to win a $50USD gift certificate to the Trailhead Store (up to 30 winners by September 14, 2020). Restrictions Apply. See Official Rules.

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What if I told you that you could prevent your users from adding fields containing sensitive data to their reports as they build and edit in the report builder? Or that you could require two-factor authentication when a user logs in from an outdated browser version? Well, you’re in luck, transaction security policies are one of the coolest features in Salesforce you might not have known existed! They give you the ability to block the transaction or alert an admin when a user does something that might be suspicious. By bringing together transaction security policies and Apex conditions, we can take our org’s security to the next level.

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Watch this video series for a complete overview of your data import options, this 5 part video series walks you through all aspects of data import, from preparing your import files to matching owner and parent record IDs.

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Create an Email Template in Lightning Experience

Use email templates to save time and standardize email sent by you or others in your organization. Use merge fields or enhanced letterhead if you need them. Templates you create are automatically private, but you can make them available for use by others in your organization.

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Today, we’re used to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) all across our daily lives. Consumers are familiar with using search for everything, but the search is difficult in an enterprise environment. In enterprise environments, there are many different departments leveraging search to find information and fulfill various needs. For example, sales users search for terms, and service users may use those same terms but expect to find different results.

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