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What a great story about Palantir. I wish you had gone for it also. I can hear the regret in your voice…and you had so much to drink as you spoke!

Given the long-term need for the work they do, would you say that Palantir is a good long-term investing opportunity?

Thank you, David.

Hi David, hope you are doing well and thank you for all your sharing via your portal. I would like to get your advice on my career switch. I am at early 40 and planning to switch my career towards CRM @ Salesorce domain. Let’s say this age, how long should I invest to mastered this SF Admin and Developer. I am not a programming guy and I my early age, I hate this subject.during my college time but now I find it, this is very valuable skill that need to be learned. Your suggestion.

Hello David Sir,

I am one of your biggest fan, you always motivates and inspire us.
Its been 7 years I am working as a System admin however always wanted to become a developer, due to lesser time and family problems couldn’t started however learning dev is on my road map.
During Covid-19 lockdown I started learning and covered up many things of salesforce dev.. Now I can write a Apex class, Visualforce and trigger fine. I will be working from home and have so much of time to learn so next steps is LIGHTNING WEB COMPONENT.

I recently switched my job and my new boss always make fun of me, Insult me, Shout at me for any silly reason or without any reason in front of my whole team and I always afraid to face my boss.
Most of the time I really feel nervous and cry when I am alone however this situation always motivates me to learn, learn & learn a lot and make a difference.
I always remember that, “The best revenge is massive success”
I am highly expert in salesforce with any type of difficulty level, now gaining a lot with Development as well.
Now sleeping 5 hours a day, I complete my work in 6 hours and only Study for the rest of the time.
Your motivation will give me success for sure,
and one day I really want to meet you when I achieve my goal.

Many thanks..

Hi David,

I am new to Salesforce and I want to express my gratitude to you for such a great website.
Please suggest me how should I proceed to grasp more in less time.

Also , I would request you to help us with a way to get challenges in apex so that our interest increases with time. If there is any link for practice tasks , please let me know.

Thanks alot

Hi David,

I am your follower and your remote salesforce student. I follow you as I follow my Holy Bible. I came with a request as I am not very fluent with codes but I want to take PD1 certification. Without certification and experience its impossible to get a job in India. No body gives a chance to freshers to work and learn, I am ready to work for free but not getting chance anywhere.
Kindly advice me.
I request you here to provide the steps how to prepare for pd1 and crack it coz it is very costly exam for me I can only afford it once….

Thanks in advance :)
Angie

Hi david,
can you please upload the latest dumps of salesforce admin for admin certification

Hi david,
Hope you are doing great,
I am done with my admin(201) and Platfrom dev I certifications .so i wanna write my next salesforce certifications but i am in a confusion either to write App Builder or Sales cloud consultant certification. So which one is better job opportunities.
Thank,
Sree

hey david,
my name is krishna, i am recent gradute from master in computer science and i am learing salesforce from 4 months,i done my admin201 and wanna write platfrom developer 1 in very soon .In meanwhile i wanna work as a volunteer for any non-profit organsation .i dnt know how to join it can you please guide me to get a volunteer job

Hi David,

Does the course of “Admin beginner” in trailhead contains all the information required to clear the Admin 201 certification exam with confidence? The reason I ask, it felt pretty basic and not close to what Admins are actually doing.

Just to Add, there is another “Admin Advanced” course, do I need to finish that as well for Admin 201 certification?

Thanks in Advance for all your guidance,
Cheers!!!
Kapil

I’m just getting started in Salesforce! I just got my 201 cert. You’re site is an inspiration to me!

Hi David,

I am new to Salesforce, I am facing problem in adding value to MultiSelectPickList throgh apex code.
Let me Explain My scenario.
I have two custom object Test__c and Testing__c. In Test__c i have a text field called Partner_level__c and in Testing__c i have a MultiSelectPicklistField called Pick_List__c.
When i enter value at Partner_Level__c at Test__c object that value must add to MultiPicklist in Testing__c .

I tried to accomplish above scenario though below trigger. But I am not Finding any proper Method to add new Value to MultiSelectPickList. Please Provide your input on this.

Trigger:

trigger PickListTrigger on Test__c (after delete, after insert, after undelete,after update, before delete, before insert, before update) {
if(Trigger.isBefore)
{
if(Trigger.isInsert || Trigger.isUpdate)
{
PickListTriggerHelper.UpdatePartnerLevel(trigger.new);
}
}
}

HelperClass:
public class PickListTriggerHelper {
public static void UpdatePartnerLevel(List PartnerLevel)
{
Schema.DescribeFieldResult Pickvalue= Testing__c.Pick_List__c.getDescribe();
List PickListValue = Pickvalue.getPicklistValues();
list str= new list();
for(schema.picklistEntry p:PickListValue){
str.add(string.valueof(p));
}

for(Test__c eachPartnerLevel:PartnerLevel)
{
if((eachPartnerLevel.Partner_Level__c!=null)&&isNewPickList(str,eachPartnerLevel.Partner_Level__c))
{
Testing__c.Pick_List__c=Testing__c.Pick_List__c + ‘;’ + eachPartnerLevel.Partner_Level__c; //Here i am trying to add new options to multiselectPickList. But i know that its not the proper way to add. Please Provide your input on this.
}
}
}
private static Boolean isNewPickList(list existingPartnerLevels,String newPartnerLevel)
{
for(String eachLevel:existingPartnerLevels)
{
if(eachLevel.equalsIgnoreCase(newPartnerLevel)){
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}

Thank you David for this wonderful site! I purchased Head First Java and Apex makes so much sense now. I just wanted to say thank you!

Hi David,

Firstly i wanted to thank you, as you made up my mind that one can have fun while coding (the way you write the articles just injects the concept to mind).

With this inspiration i could learn SFDC and i’m good at admin, apex and triggers but lagging a bit in Visual Force (Hope to see more articles on VF with examples just as u did for triggers).

I could successfully clear DEV 401.

Thats one side of a coin i.e. my learning of SFDC.

I’m working as a manual tester and now wanted to shift to SFDC, I’m doing my part of learning but there is an internal fear keeps on haunting me that will i be able to crack through interviews and get a job as a SFDC developer as i’ve 4 years of exp and how to get a job.

Meanwhile i’m planning to do some coding for practice, so if you have any project ideas can u pls share, as i want to have some hands on and real time exposure.

Please help me David..!!

David,

Having recently stumbled upon Salesforce Administration/Development and upon reading the content on this site, I’m hooked! Thing is, I have no tech background (psych major), and had just started prepping for the Salesforce Admin exam (taking late October). You wrote that the supply has finally caught up with the demand, and it seems that the outlook of this career is looking progressively more grim as the months go on. Although I am interested, I am nervous to deviate from what I am doing now (recruiting) to pursue a career in a market that is saturated with salesforce admins/developers. Thoughts?

Also – what types of positions are fairly entry-level, and when should I pursue them? After attaining my first three certs?

Thanks for your help!

– J

HI David ,,

I am pavan .. Presently i am working as Test Analyst in Newzealand
My goal is to become a salesforce developer or Architect .. Can u guide me which is the best thing for me to start learning the salesforce .

Thanks

Hey David,

Thanks for putting together an awesome website!! Great stuff here. I’m wondering what you would suggest in my situation:

My company recently implemented SFDC in May ’14. I work in the Sales Ops department and I am a sales admin in SFDC, which basically means admin of anything sales, but nothing service. I would like to become a SFDC developer and have started watching the webinars and going through your beginner tutorials.

You mention in one of the webinars that you can’t become a good developer without knowing the point and click side really well. I’m struggling to know when I have the point and click side down enough to focus more on the dev side. Should I be mastering visual workflows for example? Where do visualforce pages/components fit in? Should they be learned before or after triggers? It seems like there is so much to learn… What would you recommend as a learning path?

Here is my code. Itst 66% with the test. But not sure how to confirm this works. If I create a case, the data does not copy over.

trigger trgr_Case_CloneComponentField on Case(
before Insert,
before Update
){
for(Case cs : trigger.new)
if(cs.SVMXC__Component__c != NULL)
cs.Serial_Number__c = cs.SVMXC__Component__c;
}

Hey David,

Love the site and really enjoyed the ‘APEX for Admins’ webinar series – finally something that has helped me wrap my head around it all!

At the end you mention that a series on VisualForce is upcoming, are you involved in this too? Where is the link for that?

Hi David
can you tell me what is self relationship and exact scenario where we use it

Hi David – it looks like you built your website with WordPress. Please do everyone a favor and install the PayPal Donations plug-in so we can show some gratitude. Your site fills a serious knowledge gap that is not straightforward for most people to figure out on their own. I literally used the same approach that you are teaching others to learn Apex (Heads First, practice, etc), and I find it to be extremely good advice. Keep up the great work!

Thanks,
Tom

Raise good children…ha ha…that’s gonna be a tuff one…going to my first salesforce developer conference tomorrow in Boston…thanks for vids and the great site!

Hi David,

I’ve been a button click admin for years, but am an absolute beginner when it comes to triggers. I’ve read through your fantastic tutorial and now understand more than ever! Thank you! My question is, when the trigger involves more than one object, how do you determine where to start…i.e which object the trigger should be built on?

I was asked to make the Product Name field display on a custom object. The custom object has the part nr pushed in from an integration, but the developers who wrote the integration did not include the product name. (and they’re not around to update). Part numbers are meaningless to most of our users. They want the product name displayed on the custom object next to the part nr. I tried to do this declaratively by creating a relationship between the custom object and Products, but couldn’t make it work and was told the only way to do it was by writing a trigger. Do I start this trigger on the Products object or on the custom object?

I know I’ve got a long way to go, but the best way to learn is to dive in, right?!

Thanks,

Awesome site! You’re really filling a gap for those of us that want to learn Apex but are new to the coding game.

Love the concise, straightforward and humorous examples that you give. Keep up the good work!

Hi David,

I am a novice in salesforce. I follow your blog regularly.I have a small question.My scenario was placing an order in a website.There is field called status(pick list values are ‘In progress’,’Initiated’,’Completed’) in my application.As soon i start the process of placing an order (like selecting the item and choosing the shipping method etc)the status should be ‘Initiated’ when i completed my order(placed the order) the status should be changed to ‘completed’.I am guessing we can achieve this using triggers but i am not sure how to do it. can you please help me with this.Give me an brief idea or any sample of code so that i can understand better.

You are really doing a great job by helping people like me who are new to salesforce.

Thanks in advance.

Babu