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Secrets of Service Cloud Success: Automation

So you thought you’d switch on Entitlements in Service Cloud and all your SLA requirements would be solved? Nope, then this session is for you. Practical lessons learned from optimising Service Cloud. Want to automate those pesky milestones? How about making Case Status show what you did automatically instead of being updated manually? How about […]

Managed Sharing Patterns with Clicks and Code

Custom managed sharing, or programmatic sharing, is a powerful alternative when standard sharing options don’t quite fit the bill. We’ll explore how to implement effectively using code and clicks with reference to patterns described at github.com/LawrenceLoz/SalesforceSharingPatterns Managed sharing is easy to introduce but tricky to perfect, so we’ll highlight considerations and common gotchas to watch for. If […]

Documenting your Org from the Metadata Source

With the advent of the Salesforce CLI it’s easier than ever to extract your org metadata. Don’t let it sit there on your filesystem doing nothing, use it to generate documentation for onboarding, integrations and more. In this session I’ll show how to create a CLI plugin to process the extracted metadata and generate web […]

A Practical Introduction to Lightning Web Components

In this talk I will show how to build a Lightning Web Components app from scratch, step by step. You will learn some of the basics of the new programming model: properties, events, communication patterns, how to use the amazing @wire service and much more. To communicate the components, I will use the new Lightning […]

Modern JavaScript: Explain it like I’m an Apex developer

Are you an Apex developer who is excited about the Lightning Web Components framework, but at the same time is confused by the modern JavaScript required? Maybe this session can help! During this session, we will go over the JavaScript language from the point of view of an Apex developer, focusing on the differences between […]

The Importables – Extend the Capabilities of your Components

Lightning Web Components bring unprecedented performance and flexibility to developers. Join this session to see how JavaScript imports can be used in Lightning Web Components to work with records, access shared JavaScript libraries, use shared functionality with service components, access platform features and perform tests. You will leave with a better understanding of how to […]

Go Serverless with Salesforce Platform Events using AWS Lambda

Salesforce enables us to build highly scalable solutions using event-driven architectures. We incorporate complex processing from native Salesforce flows and perform real-time data integration with Salesforce and AWS. The session will present and demo scalable frameworks that open up endless capabilities using serverless functions: a) Platform Events & CDC triggering AWS Lambda functions via AWS […]

Level up your Salesforce CLI with Gulp

Salesforce CLI helps you automate many mundane tasks, however, many tasks lie outside of the “Salesforce” application lifecycle management. Gulp is a cross-platform, streaming task runner that lets you automate many of development tasks outside of Salesforce realm, such as using pre-processors like Sass or LESS. If you are an automation junkie like us and […]

Unmaking Soup Isn’t Easy: Lessons Learned From Unlocked Packaging

Unlocked Packaging looks great, but what benefits does it really bring? How do you get there? What gremlins are hiding in the life of an org managed with Unlocked Packaging? Having run a few consulting projects with this new technology, we’ve made the mistakes and learned the lessons. In this session, will share the things […]

Next Generation UI with Lightning Web Components

Since the advent of Lightning, web standards have evolved and browser support of APIs has mushroomed. Lightning Web Components was built for this modern web platform. Come learn how Salesforce has reinvented building custom user interface components in a way that is more standards based, developer friendly, with better performance, and in a way that […]

Advanced Apex Testing workshop

Testing’s Calling to the far away devs Now Stubs are declared and the Mocks come down Testing’s calling to the frustrated devs Come out of the cupboards, make it simpler Testing’s Calling now look to us Phony unit tests have bitten the dust Testing Calling, see how to use Annotations Except for See all data…

IoT Customer Support explained with Lego

Lego is awesome. Why not use it to explain how IoT and Field Service work on the real world? We’ve built a great demo using Lego bricks to explain the Business Case behind Salesforce IoT and Field Service as tools to transform Customer Support on Manufacturing and other industries.

10 Aura Component Tips that are mostly compatible with LWC

Remarkably few people have worked on Lightning 100% of their time. We’ve spent over a year building our platform, working hand-in-hand with Salesforce Product Management & consider ourselves grizzled veterans working at the bleeding edge of Lightning technology. Join us to hear our top 10 learnings.

Formulas for Successfully Learning Salesforce

As the Salesforce platform continues to grow, it becomes harder to keep up with the latest changes, much less learn newer technologies. With the great pace of change, haphazard learning strategies don’t work. You need to optimize your approach to learning to keep up and still get enough sleep.

If You Can Use Process Builder, You Can Learn Apex

If you enjoy using process builder in Salesforce, you’re well on your way to understanding the logic of Apex Code. In this session, we’ll do a demo of the similarities and differences between process builder and Apex triggers. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of what Apex code is, why someone might design a […]

A Beginners Guide to MuleSoft

Taking a look at MuleSoft’s vision for an Application Network. Guiding you through the process of building your own, from Design, to Build, to Deployment. Showing the tools that MuleSoft provides to get you there.

An Introduction to Architecture

An Admin’s architecture guide to driving a successful Salesforce implementation. How to start any project on the right foot by walking through the idea to production. We will cover process mapping to delivery from governance perspective while discussing pitfalls around design decisions and security.

The ABC of Einstein Analytics

Are you interested in Einstein Analytics but don’t know where to start? Join this workshop to get an overview of the platform and get your hands dirty building your first dataset and dashboard. You will leave the workshop understanding the basics of Einstein Analytics as well as some of the possibilities of the more advanced […]

SalesforceDX Continuous Delivery and Test Automation

SalesforceDX is changing the way we develop and deploy and affects both end customers and ISVs alike. In this session we will cover an overview of SFDX, summarise options for packaging, and demo how to implement a continuous delivery pipeline including test automation.