Regular expressions are a great way to parse, match and modify strings of all sorts. Let’s learn some different ways that we can use them in Apex by way of some examples that you can run in the Developer Console. Pattern.matches(…) First we will learn how to use Pattern.matches(…) for Read more…
When writing an Aura Lightning Component you can use the following to update data for standard components as detailed on this page: Unfortunately, with Lightning Web Components you cannot run the above code as is. Fortunately, you can easily modify the above to make it work in an LWC. All Read more…
At times you may want to set a minimum height and/or a maximum height for an Lightning Web Component Datatable. The documentation may lead you to believe that you cannot accomplish this but with some CSS3 you definitely can. If you go to the LWC Datatable docs you will see Read more…
Recently I had to write a custom integration which would sync customers found in QuickBooks with accounts found in Salesforce. We have been using Python to write all of our custom integrations so I have been using python-quickbooks and simple-salesforce. One thing that we noticed when syncing the two datasources Read more…
Let’s say that similar to what we did in yesterday’s post, today you want to disable downloads based on a file name. The difference is this time you want to target the user’s profile type instead of their role. Once again, using an Apex Salesforce class makes this possible. We Read more…
Imagine that you want to disable downloads for certain users based on the name of the file uploaded to Salesforce. This is totally possible thanks to the power of Apex classes. We can use the following example code inside of a new Apex class called ContentDownloadHandlerFactoryImpl: The above code essentially Read more…