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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.
Salesforce has released a Local Development Beta for Lightning Web Component (LWC) developers. This will allow construction, running, and testing of the LWC on local machines, eliminating the need for deployment on Salesforce org. Available through the Salesforce CLI plugin, this server will improve developers' productivity due to decreased development and testing time.
Arun Kumar has shared a blog post about a lighting component that utilizes the Chart.js library to create dynamical, user-customizable charts. Available as an open-source tool, Chart.js offers eight chart types and excels in rendering performance. Kumar also offers an installable package for Salesforce instances.
Account hierarchies, which display related accounts, can be viewed on the Salesforce Classic interface's account detail page. In the Lightning Experience, this is accessed via the quick action button. A Lightning component can also be developed to show the account hierarchy link on the detail page.
The post discusses integration between Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamic CRM. It details how to fetch opportunities from MS Dynamic CRM to Salesforce by passing an AccessToken to the getOpportunitiesFromMSDynamic() method. The response, in JSON format, can be parsed to suit the user's needs and applied to Salesforce objects.
"Microsoft Dynamics 365" is an Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management solution by Microsoft. It includes different application-based solutions. This article outlines steps to integrate a third-party Application Programming Interface with Dynamics 365 for development and data retrieval purposes, using Salesforce APEX code for authentication and access token acquisition.
The "lightning: map" component easily creates Google maps in lightning experience, even with multiple address markers. It also features a useful attribute 'listView' that manages location lists, defaulting to auto and showing when multiple markers are present. This tool is demoed using Account 'Contacts location'.
Arun explains how to enable 'deploy on save' in Visual Studio Code for Salesforce orgs. In preferences, open user settings, then expand extensions and click on "Salesforce Feature" to edit settings.json. Add "salesforcedx-vscode-core.push-or-deploy-on-save.enabled": true, save it and restart VS Code for automatic deployment on saving code.
Arun Kumar has shared a custom "Lightning Component" called "Opportunity Close Countdown". This countdown timer indicates the remaining time to close a sales opportunity, working based on the "closed date" field on the opportunity record. It's a tool that helps sales users keep track of their opportunity close dates to ensure timely deal closure.