Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar is a Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I with over 7+ years of experience working on the Salesforce platform. He specializes in developing custom applications, integrations, and reports to help customers streamline their business processes. Arun is passionate about helping businesses leverage the power of Salesforce to achieve their goals.

COVID-19 Tracker App

A COVID-19 tracking app for India on Salesforce, leveraging lightning components, Apex classes, and a VisualForce page. It uses APIs from Covid19india.org and NewsAPI, along with the ChartJS library for visual data representation. Source codes and set-up instructions are provided.

Automatically Add Users In Queue OR Group

A guide on automating user addition to specific Salesforce queues or groups using Process Builder and Flow. This involves creating a queue, building a flow with decision and record elements, and setting up a Process Builder on the user object. After configuration, users will be added to their specific queue automatically.

Locate Accounts Address On Google Map

Arun Kumar shares multiple gist codes for accounts mapping in Salesforce such as 'AccountsOnMap', 'AccountOnMapController', 'AccountOnMapHelper', 'AccountsOnMapCSS', and an 'Apex Class'. He advises creating a lightning component tab and using it in the tab, providing a detailed link for reference.

Join Salesforce “Lightning Champions” Program

Salesforce offers a "Lightning Champion" program for professionals proficient in developing Lightning Apps or implementing Lightning Experience. There are two distinct paths: Lightning Activation Champion and Lightning App Dev Champion, each requiring completion of a specific super badge. Champions are rewarded with recognition, community access, event participation and more. Champions should commit to a one-year enrollment and undertake quarterly activities.

Toast Message In Lightning Component

The event "$A.get("e.force:showToast")" in Salesforce's Lightning Experience, Salesforce Mobile, and Lightning Community generates a toast message to provide user feedback. It offers various attributes for customization, including title, duration, and message. Messages can be styled differently and auto-dismissed based on specified duration.

Custom Tab For Lightning Web Components

The post explains the process of using a Lightning Web Component (LWC) in a custom tab in both the Salesforce mobile app and Lightning Experience. This is possible since Winter '20 release by setting "isExposed" to TRUE in the metadata file and adding "lightning__Tab" to target to enable the LWC in the Custom Lightning Component Tab.

Lightning Stateful Button Component

The lightning:buttonStateful represents a toggleable button state similar to those found on social media. It enables dynamic display of different labels and icons. Specific examples and further information can be found on the Lightning Design System and Salesforce Developer websites.

Translate Chatter Feed | Text Translation API

Arun Kumar explains the use of Yandex Translate Text API for translating text content in different languages. This free API blends neural network and statistical approaches for machine translation. The post gives details about the API Request syntax, the query parameters, and showcases example code for translating 'chatter feed'.

Get Parent Record Id From Lightning URL

The post discusses creating a lighting component for a new record related to Opportunity in Salesforce. The challenge is to auto-populate the Opportunity record, but the "force:hasRecordId" interface is insufficient as it only provides the current record ID. The solution given advises using the "lightning:isUrlAddressable" interface to generate a URL and retrieve the Opportunity record ID.

New Salesforce API Explorer

Salesforce API Explorer offers developers a place to test a variety of Salesforce APIs. Now available for developer preview are APIs including B2C Commerce Developer Sandbox, Einstein Prediction Service Scoring, Einstein Vision and Language, Force.com REST sObject Resources, Marketing Cloud REST, and Salesforce IoT.