Dear David,
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I am so happy that I came across your generosity and pieces of advice (by chance heard of your video “Why are Salesforce administrator jobs disappearing?”)
Im 53 years old… /young… ;-).
Two years ago, I began learning to code, still on it… lol… but determined to finally make it!
Last February I took 2 SF courses, and on September, I certified Admin. and Dev I. I have no experience with SF though, so right now I keep completing badges and Trails.
Could you recommend me any trainee programm? Or some internship?
(I just want to gain experience, no need to be paid for).
Thank you again and best regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Aleniuk.
New Beginnings! I see Salesforce as a new stepping stone in my IT career and my only regret was not starting to learn Apex sooner. I see that the power of coding is endless and look forward to the opportunities that are on the way.
Appreciate the positive structure you present in your courses and blogs.
I follow you in twitter, Linkedin and your blog as well which help to gain knowledge in multiple aspects in Salesforce.
I am planning to prepare for Sharing and Visibility Designer certification. Any pointers would be really helpful.
Thank you for an outstanding SFDC resource. I am trying to subscribe but keep getting the error “There was an error when subscribing. Please try again.”. Can you manually add me? I don’t want to miss anything!
I am planning to give Salesforce Integration Architect and Platform Develope 2 certification. Please let me know if you have any course for these two certification preparation and how I can proceed further.
I followed your website for learning Salesforce. I am thinking of appearing Salesforce administrator certification, could you please provide me the guidelines and any direct link of the ebook. This may be a silly question but I tried to get all the stuffs in one place to be followed to learn and clear the test of certification so asked you. I googled for it and I am getting no. of links but confused to follow which one.
I want to learn Apex coding. how can I watch your tutorials? I am from the India ,from Information Technology background and starting to learn apex coding. I’m having a hard time look for articles or blogs which simply teach apex coding. If I’ll be luck enough, I hope I can be one of your scholars or please help me how to learn apex coding.
Hi David,
I am facing an issue when I trying to install Mavensmate tool.
Please explain
“Request to the local MavensMate server failed, please ensure MavensMate Desktop is installed and running. For more information, please visit https://github.com/joeferraro/MavensMate/tree/master/docs“
I wan to start learning salesforce. Do you have a admin course for total beginners in salesforce? If not please recommend me the best one you know. Admin course should be first step before your developer course?
What’s the situation with Mavensmate since I read a blog on the site that it was closing down and no longer supported. Do we still download Sublime text and use another editor like Eclipse or do we use Froce.com?
Kind Regards
Frederick
I have read your blog and guidance on obtaining all the Salesforce certifications, impressive. Would like to say very impressed with your achievements.
I am a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect, was at one time a top notch PL/SQL coder/developer, colleagues tell me I still am and my job requires me to train 5 people each year on top of doing architecture.
I have read a lot of material trying to decide which is best for me to gain the Salesforce certificates and it seems you have come out the initial winner, so well done for winning this contract!!
OK, down to the serious stuff, I am now going to devote the time and money to follow the guidance you have provided and will post my progress on this blog.
To start with I will be doing the Administrator and APEX stuff, not sure how long it will take me as variables such as family, work, eating, sleeping, travelling etc. may not allow me the time required to complete as fast as I would like or may be expected to do.
Great to have you as my teacher, looking forward to working with someone who has so much enthusiasm.
I am trying to create a scenario where the following will take place:
from the contact, a sales development rep creates an opportunity for their account executive, (who is the owner of the contact) — and when that happens, the opportunity owner gets updated to the account executive who owns the contact that the opportunity was created from.
I believe this will require code but I am not sure how to do it since I’m not a developer…. any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
Hello! I wanted to grow in a market of business analyst. I don’t have a technical background, and no coding experience. What should I learn, is it Salesforce, SAS or something other. Need your expert advice.
*time travels to the past and slaps her old self and says “FIND DAVID LIU! NOW!”*
Your tutorials are gold! Apex had never been this fun! I’m religiously following your Apex Academy now. I giggle in your every tutorial. Thanks for being so awesome. Wish to meet you one day and appreciate your hard work in person. :)
I am planning to take Platform App builder certification.I am worried about this certification.
Could you please guide me what I need to study and concentrate, and also provide me exact dumps, whether all the questions come from the dumps ? .please help me. I ll be grateful to you, Thanks in advance.
I’ve been working with salesforce for quite a while and i’m pretty good at writing triggers, but i suck at test classes. I’ve been working on and off on this wizard class and writing a test class for it. But for the love my life i just don’t get it.
Is there a way you can help me with it?
Hello, I have 2+ years of experience in Android Development, but now i want to switch to Salesforce Development, i am planning to do one certification in it. I am learning Salesforce on my own. Can you please guide me how i make flow of learning salesforce or which certification gives me opportunity in Salesforce.
Is the Apex Academy is for free? If yes, how can I watch your tutorials? I am from the Philippines and starting to learn apex coding. I’m having a hard time look for articles or blogs which simply teach apex coding. If I’ll be luck enough, I hope I can be one of your scholars or please help me find a mentor in apex coding.
I am a Software Test Analyst with more than 7 years experience in functional and data warehouse testing. I got interested in SalesForce after an internal session we had in our company. But could you please help me to understand my career prospects in SalesForce having said that I have already spend 7 years in a completely different field.
I have been following you from the past 6 months.The movie you suggested whiplash was awesome.I have a great passion for learning salesforce .Thank you very much for helping us to learn salesforce.Recently i came to USA for my MASTERS and would like to be a salesforce developer after my masters.Do we still have a chance to register for the video classes for apex.Please help.
Firstly, thank you for your site, it is really helping me to understand the basics of coding within SFDC and making less of a daunting experience.
I do however have a question that I cant seem to find an answer. In the Spring 14 workflow were able to run flows which has since been removed – not sure why? My question is is simple, I have created a headless flow that I need activating which can only be done via a trigger. How do you get a trigger to run a headless flow?
Hi i wrote my Salesforce Certification but i failed in that Exam,in how many weeks can i write the Exam again.I was confident that i may pass but was little confused can anyone provide me the correct material to pass in the exam
ThankYou,
Prathyusha
Salesforce coding lessons for the 99%
Hi David! Do you have any information on the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Specialist Certification? I mean, the best way to study for it?
Use this philosophy! https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sfdc99.com/ultimate-salesforce-certifications-guide/&ved=2ahUKEwiTxvTaxZ_uAhWTNX0KHdOGCMMQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0e4R03CmgC7gdUUDkr8VAA
Dear David,
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I am so happy that I came across your generosity and pieces of advice (by chance heard of your video “Why are Salesforce administrator jobs disappearing?”)
Im 53 years old… /young… ;-).
Two years ago, I began learning to code, still on it… lol… but determined to finally make it!
Last February I took 2 SF courses, and on September, I certified Admin. and Dev I. I have no experience with SF though, so right now I keep completing badges and Trails.
Could you recommend me any trainee programm? Or some internship?
(I just want to gain experience, no need to be paid for).
Thank you again and best regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Aleniuk.
Cheers
If you can do all the homework / projects here you’ll be in a good place:
https://www.sfdc99.com/apex-academy/
bit.ly/go-apex
Aside from that, check out this video:
Hi David,
New Beginnings! I see Salesforce as a new stepping stone in my IT career and my only regret was not starting to learn Apex sooner. I see that the power of coding is endless and look forward to the opportunities that are on the way.
Appreciate the positive structure you present in your courses and blogs.
Take Care,
Julio
‘It’s time to Dance!’
Thank you!
Hi David,
This is Jay, Just started my journey with Salesforce. I got my First Certification ADM-201 Today. And following your guidance and suggestions.
Welcome!
Hi David,
I follow you in twitter, Linkedin and your blog as well which help to gain knowledge in multiple aspects in Salesforce.
I am planning to prepare for Sharing and Visibility Designer certification. Any pointers would be really helpful.
Thanks,
Saon
Hey Saon! Check this out: https://www.sfdc99.com/ultimate-salesforce-certifications-guide/
Hi David,
Thank you for an outstanding SFDC resource. I am trying to subscribe but keep getting the error “There was an error when subscribing. Please try again.”. Can you manually add me? I don’t want to miss anything!
Regards,
Jerry Feth
Let me check next week post Dreamforce!
Done! Check your email for a confirmation =)
Hi David,
I am planning to give Salesforce Integration Architect and Platform Develope 2 certification. Please let me know if you have any course for these two certification preparation and how I can proceed further.
Regards,
Puneet
Hello David,
I was wondering if you need to follow the order of certification or you can pick and choose? Like do you have to be an Admin first before a developer?
I recommend this order:
https://www.sfdc99.com/ultimate-salesforce-certifications-guide/
Realistically you can go in any order you prefer, as long as you meet the prereqs!
David,
“as long as you meet the prereqs”
What are the prereqs? Or where can I find them?
Thanks!
?
Hi David,
I followed your website for learning Salesforce. I am thinking of appearing Salesforce administrator certification, could you please provide me the guidelines and any direct link of the ebook. This may be a silly question but I tried to get all the stuffs in one place to be followed to learn and clear the test of certification so asked you. I googled for it and I am getting no. of links but confused to follow which one.
Read every word here!
https://www.sfdc99.com/ultimate-salesforce-certifications-guide/
6=Red, 7=Grey, and 2=Blue.
Hi
David Liu
I want to learn Apex coding. how can I watch your tutorials? I am from the India ,from Information Technology background and starting to learn apex coding. I’m having a hard time look for articles or blogs which simply teach apex coding. If I’ll be luck enough, I hope I can be one of your scholars or please help me how to learn apex coding.
Thanks
Raja Rathnam
You can learn everything free here!
https://www.sfdc99.com/beginner-tutorials/
Hi David,
I am facing an issue when I trying to install Mavensmate tool.
Please explain
“Request to the local MavensMate server failed, please ensure MavensMate Desktop is installed and running. For more information, please visit https://github.com/joeferraro/MavensMate/tree/master/docs“
Hello David.
I wan to start learning salesforce. Do you have a admin course for total beginners in salesforce? If not please recommend me the best one you know. Admin course should be first step before your developer course?
Check this out!
https://www.sfdc99.com/2014/08/13/how-to-learn-the-admin-side-of-salesforce/
What’s the situation with Mavensmate since I read a blog on the site that it was closing down and no longer supported. Do we still download Sublime text and use another editor like Eclipse or do we use Froce.com?
Kind Regards
Frederick
Long term I recommend the Force.com IDE, for now if you’re new I’d say dev console!
Hello David,
I have read your blog and guidance on obtaining all the Salesforce certifications, impressive. Would like to say very impressed with your achievements.
I am a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect, was at one time a top notch PL/SQL coder/developer, colleagues tell me I still am and my job requires me to train 5 people each year on top of doing architecture.
I have read a lot of material trying to decide which is best for me to gain the Salesforce certificates and it seems you have come out the initial winner, so well done for winning this contract!!
OK, down to the serious stuff, I am now going to devote the time and money to follow the guidance you have provided and will post my progress on this blog.
To start with I will be doing the Administrator and APEX stuff, not sure how long it will take me as variables such as family, work, eating, sleeping, travelling etc. may not allow me the time required to complete as fast as I would like or may be expected to do.
Great to have you as my teacher, looking forward to working with someone who has so much enthusiasm.
Cheers,
Yusef
Yusef!
Great post, I’ll be following ya and helping where I can! Good luck!
Hi David,
I am trying to create a scenario where the following will take place:
from the contact, a sales development rep creates an opportunity for their account executive, (who is the owner of the contact) — and when that happens, the opportunity owner gets updated to the account executive who owns the contact that the opportunity was created from.
I believe this will require code but I am not sure how to do it since I’m not a developer…. any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
Try process builder!
Can I be a Salesforce developer as I do not have knowledge on Java but I have worked on PowerBuilder?
It would be great if someone can help me to get certified on this.
Yes you sure can! Any background is fine!
Hello! I wanted to grow in a market of business analyst. I don’t have a technical background, and no coding experience. What should I learn, is it Salesforce, SAS or something other. Need your expert advice.
Go Salesforce, no question about it. Market is HOT!
David!!!! Why didn’t I find you sooner??!!
*time travels to the past and slaps her old self and says “FIND DAVID LIU! NOW!”*
Your tutorials are gold! Apex had never been this fun! I’m religiously following your Apex Academy now. I giggle in your every tutorial. Thanks for being so awesome. Wish to meet you one day and appreciate your hard work in person. :)
ha ha ha, thank you Anamika =) =) You are very kind!
Hi david,
Greetings of the day,
I am planning to take Platform App builder certification.I am worried about this certification.
Could you please guide me what I need to study and concentrate, and also provide me exact dumps, whether all the questions come from the dumps ? .please help me. I ll be grateful to you, Thanks in advance.
with regards,
Gayathri P.
You gotta check out this page!
https://www.sfdc99.com/ultimate-salesforce-certifications-guide/
BTW, I don’t recommend dumps or any form of studying that uses exact exam questions – NOT GOOD!
Hi David,
I’ve been working with salesforce for quite a while and i’m pretty good at writing triggers, but i suck at test classes. I’ve been working on and off on this wizard class and writing a test class for it. But for the love my life i just don’t get it.
Is there a way you can help me with it?
Thanks!
My best advice is to imagine you are testing something manually (with your mouse in Salesforce.com), then do the exact same thing using code!
If you’re still having trouble I go DEEP into test classes in the Apex Academy!
Hello, I have 2+ years of experience in Android Development, but now i want to switch to Salesforce Development, i am planning to do one certification in it. I am learning Salesforce on my own. Can you please guide me how i make flow of learning salesforce or which certification gives me opportunity in Salesforce.
Check out this page!
https://www.sfdc99.com/how-to-get-a-salesforce-developer-job/
Hi David,
Is the Apex Academy is for free? If yes, how can I watch your tutorials? I am from the Philippines and starting to learn apex coding. I’m having a hard time look for articles or blogs which simply teach apex coding. If I’ll be luck enough, I hope I can be one of your scholars or please help me find a mentor in apex coding.
Thanks
Marion Legacion
Hey Marion! It’s $30 / month. If you’re unemployed and can’t afford that though I offer scholarships – email me!
Hi David,
I am a Software Test Analyst with more than 7 years experience in functional and data warehouse testing. I got interested in SalesForce after an internal session we had in our company. But could you please help me to understand my career prospects in SalesForce having said that I have already spend 7 years in a completely different field.
Thanks,
Anju
I talk about this topic in my video course and written tutorials!
Video: https://www.sfdc99.com/2016/01/15/the-apex-academy-is-now-open/
Written: https://www.sfdc99.com/how-to-get-a-salesforce-developer-job/
Hello David,
I have been following you from the past 6 months.The movie you suggested whiplash was awesome.I have a great passion for learning salesforce .Thank you very much for helping us to learn salesforce.Recently i came to USA for my MASTERS and would like to be a salesforce developer after my masters.Do we still have a chance to register for the video classes for apex.Please help.
Thanks,
Prashanth.
Thanks Prashanth!
Yes you can watch the video courses anytime! Once they’re up of course =)
David
The site is straight forward and definitely has help me a lot when writing Apex trigger! Good Job, David!
Hi David,
I am a newbie to Salesforce .
I am trying to get input from user on Visualforce page for entering Custom object’s records.
Custom Object : Merchandise_c
Apex :
Controller
public with sharing class Merchandise_Input {
public String Name { get; set; }
public void save() {
//Merchandise_c Mer = new Merchandise_c();
Merchandise_c.Name = ‘Laptop’;
}}
Try asking this one on the official developer forums!
wt is the difference b/w standard controller and custom controller
Hi David, thanks for this great resource. The flashcards for Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant are set protected. Is this by design?
Hi David,
How to create one to one relation ship could you plz explain me
Hi David,
Could you please answer the below point
1) How to find the total size of already uploaded static resources size?
2) We are getting a error message when we upload a static resource saying that no space?
I learnt that single org can have only up to 250 MB of total static resources.
With this I ran the below query
select sum(bodylength) from static resource.–The sum is around 262 MB. I am little bit confused here? How 262 will come if onyl 250 is maximum limit.
Please advise.
Try asking this one on the official forums – don’t know this off the top of my head!
Hi David,
I am a SAP ABAP developer.As I want to move my career to SFDC, please advise me for where to start this SFDC as a beginner
Right here!
https://www.sfdc99.com/2014/10/11/step-by-step-guide-to-becoming-a-salesforce-developer-this-year/
Hi,
Firstly, thank you for your site, it is really helping me to understand the basics of coding within SFDC and making less of a daunting experience.
I do however have a question that I cant seem to find an answer. In the Spring 14 workflow were able to run flows which has since been removed – not sure why? My question is is simple, I have created a headless flow that I need activating which can only be done via a trigger. How do you get a trigger to run a headless flow?
Your help will very much be appreciated
Regards
Tom Blamire
I have no experience here unfortunately – I gotta get learning!
Hi i wrote my Salesforce Certification but i failed in that Exam,in how many weeks can i write the Exam again.I was confident that i may pass but was little confused can anyone provide me the correct material to pass in the exam
ThankYou,
Prathyusha