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- Assets, and modelling what the customer owns
- Audit preparation
- Automating tasks without drowning users
- Buttons, quick actions and list view actions
- Campaigns, members and influence, honestly
- Case assignment rules: order, criteria, and the silent no-match
- Case escalation rules, and why they seem not to fire
- Case Feed and the publisher actions
- Certificates and key management
- Chat: deployments, buttons and routing
- Compact layouts and the highlights panel
- Configuring Chatter, and what to turn off
- ContentDocumentLink sharing, and the access nobody expects
- Cross-object formulas and their constraints
- Custom notifications from flow and Apex
- Custom permissions, and the bypass pattern
- Data categories, and why an article is invisible
- Data classification metadata on fields
- Deactivating a user properly
- Delegated administration, and its risks
- Dependent picklists
- Designing a case status model
- Duplicate rules and matching rules, in practice
- Dynamic Forms and Dynamic Actions
- Dynamic Forms vs page layouts
- Einstein Activity Capture, and where your activities go
- Email deliverability settings that stop your mail vanishing
- Email template types, and where each works
- Email-to-Case: threading, duplicates, and the on-demand version
- Enterprise Territory Management
- Entitlements and milestones, explained by what the timer does
- Event monitoring
- Experience Cloud licence types compared
- Experience Cloud sharing: sharing sets and share groups
- External Credentials and the new auth model
- Field Audit Trail and long-term history
- Field history tracking, and what it misses
- Field Service: work orders and scheduling
- Formula field limits and the compile size error
- Formula functions
- Global value sets and picklist governance
- Home page design
- Implicit sharing on accounts
- Inline editing and mass actions
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INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS_OR_READONLYsix causes, one message - Just-in-time provisioning, and what it cannot set
- Lead assignment rules and lead scoring
- Lead conversion: what it writes, and what it silently drops
- Lightning App Builder: record, app and home pages
- List view charts
- List views: sharing, filter logic and scope
- Login and self-registration for a community
- Login As: what is audited and what is not
- Lookup filters
- Macros and quick text for support agents
- Managing picklists at scale
- Manual shares and Apex managed sharing
- Merging cases, and what merge destroys
- Messaging for In-App and Web
- MFA: what is required and what satisfies it
- Migrating from profiles to permission sets
- Multi-currency: the switch you cannot undo
- My Domain and enhanced domains
- Number currency percent
- Object permissions vs record access
- Omni-Channel routing: capacity, priority, and the agent getting nothing
- Opportunity products and revenue schedules
- Opportunity stages, probability and forecast category
- Opportunity teams and splits
- Org-wide defaults explained by outcome, not theory
- Org-wide email addresses and bounce behaviour
- Page layout strategy
- Path and guidance for success
- Penetration testing a Salesforce org
- Permission set expiration
- Permission set groups, and muting — the only subtractive tool you get
- Permission sets after the cancelled profile retirement: what to do now
- Price books, entries, and the pricebook entry that does not exist
- Products and catalogues at scale
- Profile retirement
- Queues, public groups, roles and territories
- Quotes, and the sync direction problem
- Reading Login History like an inventory
- Reading the Setup Audit Trail properly
- Reading your own data model
- Record types and page layout assignment
- Record types: when they help and when they metastasise
- Related lists
- Restriction rules
- Role hierarchy design that survives a reorg
- Roll-up summary fields: what they can and cannot do
- Salesforce Knowledge: articles, versions and publishing
- Salesforce Surveys, linked to a case
- Scoping rules
- Search configuration
- Security tokens
- SEO for an Experience Cloud site
- Session security settings
- Sharing rules: criteria-based vs owner-based
- Sharing sets
- Shield Platform Encryption: what breaks
- SSO with SAML: the five settings that cause every failure
- Tasks and Events: one object, two behaviours
- Text vs picklist
- The Contract object, and when to build your own
- The guest user security model
- The per-object limits page
- The Salesforce mobile app, configured
- The Service Console, configured properly
- The utility bar, and what belongs there
- Transaction security
- Trusted IP ranges vs profile login IP ranges
- User access policies, and the risk of automating access
- Validation rule patterns that work
- Validation rule, before-save flow, or required field?
- View All, Modify All, View All Data, Modify All Data
- Web-to-Case: the daily limit and what happens past it
- What profiles still uniquely control
- Who changed this field? Setup Audit Trail, field history, and what neither tells you
- Why can this user see this record
- @TestSetup: what it saves and what it breaks
- A durable exception logging pattern
- Apex Cursors, and when they beat Batch Apex
- Apex Finalizers for Queueable error handling
- Apex String methods worth knowing
- Apex test data: one factory, @testSetup, and two hundred records
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APEX_ERRORin a Bulk API job result - Async error handling and a retry design that leaves evidence
- Batch scope sizing, and why 200 is not always right
- Building dynamic SOQL safely
- Bulk API query or ordinary SOQL
- Bulkification patterns that scale
- Caching describe calls to cut CPU
- Calling the Metadata API from Apex
- Callout limits, and the patterns around them
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CANNOT_INSERT_UPDATE_ACTIVATE_ENTITYthe wrapper that hides the real error - Controlling order inside one trigger handler
- Coverage without useless tests
- Custom exceptions and an error taxonomy that helps
- Custom metadata, custom settings, or a constant
- Database.executeBatch cannot be called from a batch
- Database.insert or plain DML
- Dates, times, and time zones in Apex
- Describe calls, and getting a record type Id safely
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DUPLICATE_VALUEon upsert - Enforcing CRUD and field-level security in Apex, now that SECURITY_ENFORCED is gone
- Enforcing CRUD and FLS for LWC
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ENTITY_IS_DELETEDthe record is in the recycle bin -
FIELD_CUSTOM_VALIDATION_EXCEPTIONfinding which rule actually fired - Future, Queueable, Batch or Scheduled: choosing the async mechanism
- Governor limits inside tests
- Heap: SOQL for-loop against list assignment
- How managed packages consume your limits
- How to read LIMIT_USAGE_FOR_NS and prove whose code spent your limits
- Inbound email services in Apex
- Instrumenting with the Limits class
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INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS_ON_CROSS_REFERENCE_ENTITYthe parent, not the record you saved - Interfaces and abstract classes in Apex
- Invalid conversion from runtime type
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INVALID_CROSS_REFERENCE_KEYthe Id is valid but points at nothing usable -
INVALID_FIELD_FOR_INSERT_UPDATE -
INVALID_OR_NULL_FOR_RESTRICTED_PICKLIST - Invocable Apex for Flow, done bulk-safe
- JSON deserialization errors in Apex
- List, Set and Map: choosing correctly
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MALFORMED_QUERYunexpected token -
MIXED_DML_OPERATIONsetup objects and why they cannot share a transaction - Mocking HTTP callouts with HttpCalloutMock
- Non-selective query against large object type
- Null-safe patterns in Apex
- One trigger per object, and the handler pattern that makes it work
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OPERATION_TOO_LARGE - PK chunking for large extracts
- Platform Cache: when it earns its cost
- Queueable chaining and its limits
- Queueable delays, and the duplicate check that costs a slot
- Recursion guards, and when a static flag is the wrong fix
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REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING, and the field that is not required on any layout - Savepoints and rollback in Apex
- Scheduled Apex and cron expressions
- Sharing keywords: with, without, inherited
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SINGLE_EMAIL_LIMIT_EXCEEDED - SObject row was retrieved via SOQL without querying the requested field
- SOQL date literals and date functions
- SOQL injection in Apex, demonstrated in a real org
- SOQL or SOSL: when each one wins
- SOQL relationship queries and their limits
- Sorting in Apex, and implementing Comparable
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STORAGE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED - Synchronous vs asynchronous governor limits, side by side
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System.AssertExceptionwith no useful message -
System.FinalExceptionRecord is read-only -
System.LimitExceptionApex CPU time limit exceeded -
System.LimitExceptionApex heap size too large -
System.LimitExceptionRegex too complicated -
System.LimitExceptionToo many callouts: 101 -
System.LimitExceptionToo many DML rows: 10001 -
System.LimitExceptionToo many DML statements: 151 -
System.LimitExceptionToo many query rows: 50001 -
System.LimitExceptionToo many SOQL queries: 101 -
System.ListExceptionList index out of bounds -
System.MathExceptionDivide by 0 -
System.NullPointerExceptionAttempt to de-reference a null object -
System.QueryExceptionList has more than 1 row for assignment to SObject -
System.QueryExceptionList has no rows for assignment to SObject -
System.StringExceptionInvalid id, and the 15 vs 18 character problem - Test data factories that survive a schema change
- Testing Schedulable and Batchable classes
- The 10 concurrent long-running request limit
- The Apex flex queue
- The selector layer pattern, without the framework
- The smallest trigger framework that works
- The Stub API for mocking dependencies
- Too many future calls: 51
- Too many queueable jobs added to the queue: 51
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UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROWin test classes -
USER_MODEenforcing permissions in Apex - Visualforce remoting, and what replaced it
- What an aggregate SOQL query costs against the row limit
- Why every database test should insert 200 records
- Writing a Batch Apex job that survives production
- You have uncommitted work pending: callout ordering in Apex
- $Record vs $Record__Prior, and where each is available
- A required field error, seen from Flow
- Approval process or flow
- Approval processes: steps, locks and recall
- Attempt to de-reference a null object, in Flow
- Before-save vs after-save flows: the decision and what each costs
- Bulkification in Flow: loops, DML, and the limits you will hit
- Bypassing automation with custom permissions
- Calling Apex from Flow safely
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CANNOT_EXECUTE_FLOW_TRIGGERa flow failed and took the save with it - Collection Filter and Collection Sort
- Controlling order when Flow and Apex share an object
- Debug against Run, and why they differ
- Decision elements or formula resources
- Deleting records in Flow without regret
- Dependency sprawl: counting your downstream DML
- Error handling for integration flows
- File upload in a screen flow
- Five flows on one object: consolidating without breaking anything
- Flow assignment element
- Flow async path
- Flow custom error messages
- Flow entry conditions and the setting that stops duplicate runs
- Flow entry criteria formula
- Flow fault paths, done properly
- Flow formula problems, and why it works in a field
- Flow http callout action
- Flow in a managed package
- Flow limits: elements, SOQL, DML, and the ones that actually bite
- Flow loops and collections
- Flow migration from Apex
- Flow or Apex trigger: the actual decision
- Flow Orchestration: what it is for
- Flow record choice set
- Flow record sharing
- Flow record triggered types
- Flow scheduled flows
- Flow scheduled paths: every gotcha
- Flow screen component visibility
- Flow testing strategy
- Flow Tests: what they cover and what they miss
- Flow transform element
- Flow vs quick action
- Get Records: filter, sort, and what happens with no results
- How to read a flow error email
- HTTP callouts from Flow with External Services
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ISCHANGEDequivalents in Flow - Launching an autolaunched flow from Apex
- Loops in Flow, and when not to use one
- Migrating Process Builder to Flow
- Migrating Workflow Rules to Flow
- Multi-select picklists in Flow
- Naming and documenting flows
- One automation tool per object, and when to break it
- Passing variables to a subflow
- Paused and failed flow interviews
- Platform-event-triggered flows
- Profiling flow performance
- Reactive screen components in Flow
- Roll Back Records only works in a screen flow
- Roll-ups without a roll-up summary field
- Screen flow validation that works
- Sending email from Flow
- System context vs user context in Flow
- The automation density matrix
- Updating related records in Flow
- What Flow cannot do that Apex can
- Where a screen flow commits
- Why your record-triggered flow runs twice
- Your record-triggered flow is not firing: a diagnostic checklist
- A rolled-back transaction still delivers the event
- Address data, and why it degrades
- An archiving strategy that survives audit
- Apex merge keeps every master field, blanks included
- Api pagination
- Api versioning
- Authenticating outbound callouts
- Change Data Capture in practice
- Change Data Capture, Platform Events, or an outbound message
- Changing a field type on populated data
- Changing picklist values when records use them
- Connected app policies
- Converting lookup to master-detail, and back
- Data Cloud, for Salesforce people
- Data Loader or Bulk API 2.0
- Deleting data safely at scale
- Design the retry before you write the callout
- Designing a platform event schema
- Designing an Apex REST endpoint
- Designing external IDs before you migrate
- Error response design
- External Client Apps against Connected Apps
- External Services and OpenAPI
- Extracting millions of records
- File upload limits and behaviour
- Files, Attachments and Documents: which to migrate to
- Handling API rate limits in a client
- Heroku integration
- Integration testing strategy
- Integration user design
- Masking data in a sandbox
- Mass Transfer Records, and when to stop using it
- Middleware or native Salesforce integration
- Middleware or point to point
- Migrating Notes and Attachments to Files
- Monitoring API consumption before you hit the wall
- Monitoring integrations properly
- Named Credentials, end to end
- OAuth flows compared: web server, JWT, client credentials
- OAuth scopes, and the least-privilege set
- Outbound messages, and what to replace them with
- Platform Event publishing and delivery limits
- Receiving webhooks with Apex REST
- Record IDs: 15, 18 and key prefixes
- Record locking, and the parents you never mentioned
- REST, SOAP, Bulk or Streaming: choosing an API
- Running a data quality programme
- Salesforce Connect, external objects and OData
- Salesforce to Salesforce
- Seeding a sandbox with usable data
- Sorting your load file by parent Id
- Streaming vs polling
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System.CalloutExceptionRead timed out - The Bulk API 2.0 job lifecycle
- The Composite API
- The GraphQL API, and how it differs from REST
- The order you load objects in decides how much of the migration you redo
- The Pub/Sub API, and replaying events
- The Recycle Bin: fifteen days and a capacity cap
- Time zones in data loads
- Upsert on an external ID, correctly
- Webhook outbound
- What Salesforce backup does and does not cover
- What the weekly export actually gives you
- Where the SOAP API is still required
- Writing a data retention policy that holds up
Architecture
55- A governance model that does not become a bottleneck
- Account hierarchies, and reporting across a tree
- An anti-patterns catalogue
- Architecture decision records for Salesforce projects
- Backup and disaster recovery design
- Batch concurrency, and the state bug it causes
- Big objects, and what you give up
- Business capability maps for a Salesforce programme
- Buy or build on the AppExchange
- Capacity planning for API, storage and async
- Data skew: the 10,000-record line that decides how your org behaves under load
- Documentation that survives handover
- Drawing a system landscape diagram that survives review
- Estimating a Salesforce build honestly
- Estimating as a team
- Experience Cloud site performance
- How Salesforce actually stores your data
- Hyperforce and data residency
- Lookup skew: many records pointing at one
- Master-detail vs lookup: the decision you cannot easily reverse
- Most Salesforce clouds are one org with a different licence
- Naming conventions that survive five years
- One org or two: the reasons that hold and the ones that do not
- Org consolidation: what it really costs
- Ownership skew, explained by its symptoms
- Paying down technical debt, sustainably
- Person accounts: the switch you cannot undo
- Pick the integration pattern before you pick the tool
- Requesting a custom index, and what cannot be indexed
- Reversibility as a design criterion
- RTO and RPO on a platform you do not control
- Salesforce governor limits, organised by what actually trips them
- Salesforce order of execution, with Flow in it
- Security Health Check and Salesforce Optimizer
- Sharing recalculation at scale
- Skinny tables: what they are and how to get one
- Standard object or custom object
- Strategies for objects past ten million rows
- Taking a technical debt inventory
- The daily async Apex limit
- The four ways Salesforce runs your query
- The kit of parts for Salesforce diagrams
- The Query Plan tool, read properly
- The search index is not the database
- Trigger design that still works at volume
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UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROWwhat is actually locked, and why it is never the record you think - Well-Architected: composability
- Well-Architected: reliability in practice
- Well-Architected: security in practice
- When not to use event-driven architecture
- When the answer is not Salesforce
- Why a query that was fast at 100,000 rows is slow at 5 million
- Why your batch job is late: the async queue
- Why your query got slow at two million rows
- Working with business users
- Agent, flow, or Apex: choosing
- Agentforce analytics
- Agentforce conversation design
- Agentforce data grounding patterns
- Agentforce deployment
- Agentforce guardrails
- Agentforce handoff to human
- Agentforce multilingual
- Agentforce rollout plan
- Agentforce sales agent
- Agentforce service agent
- Agentforce versus chatbot
- AIforce, Claudeforce and MCP
- Claudeforce: what Salesforce and Anthropic actually announced
- Custom actions: Flow-based or Apex-based
- Designing topics and instructions that hold
- Einstein Prediction Builder, honestly assessed
- Evaluating agent quality beyond vibes
- Getting your org ready for Claudeforce: four days of work you should do anyway
- Grounding a prompt with Data Cloud
- Human oversight in automated decisions
- MCP explained for Salesforce architects
- PII in prompts: what leaves the org
- Prompt Builder, from scratch
- Prompt injection in a CRM: every text field a customer can write into
- Prompt template types, and when each applies
- Retrieval and vector search, practically
- Testing agents in Testing Center
- The AI privacy questions your security team will ask
- The Einstein Trust Layer: what it does and does not do
- The standard actions an agent can call
- What Agentforce actually costs to run
- What Agentforce still cannot do
- What an Agentforce agent is actually allowed to see
- What an outside agent can see in your org, and who decides
- What is AIforce? It is not a product you can switch on
- What you can actually do with Claudeforce, and who benefits
- When an agent is the wrong tool
- Writing prompts that work against CRM data
- Your first Agentforce action, end to end
- @wire or imperative: how an LWC should call Apex
- Accessible Lightning Web Components
- Aura to LWC: a migration order that does not strand you
- Building an LWC for a flow screen
- Building LWCs for Experience Cloud
- Cannot read properties of undefined, in a wire handler
- Error handling in imperative Apex calls
- Getters against tracked properties
- Getting record context in an LWC
- How Lightning Web Components talk to each other
- LDS wire adapters, and when to stop writing Apex
- Lightning Data Service: what it caches and when it lies
- Lightning record page performance
- Lightning Web Security: what changed when it replaced Locker
- lightning-datatable, and when to stop using it
- lightning-record-form, record-edit-form, or building it yourself
- Loading a third-party library in LWC
- LWC as a quick action
- LWC performance, measured before optimised
- lwc:if, for:each, and the key requirement
- Modals with the LightningModal base class
- NavigationMixin and page references
- refreshApex and stale data after a save
- Showing errors properly in LWC
- Slots and composition in LWC
- Styling LWC: shadow DOM, SLDS and styling hooks
- The Lightning Message Service import needs a __c
- The LWC Jest tests worth writing
- The LWC lifecycle hooks, and the renderedCallback trap
- Your LWC property changed and nothing re-rendered
- Your LWC shows old data after a save: which cache is lying
- 1GP against 2GP: what freezes at upload
- A branching strategy for Salesforce teams
- A sandbox strategy you can actually keep to
- Change sets, source-tracked deployment, or packages
- Change Sets: when they are still the right tool
- Changing schema in a live org
- CI/CD for Salesforce with GitHub Actions
- Code review
- Deploying flows without breaking the active version
- Deprecating Apex in a managed package
- DevOps Center vs the CLI
- Incident response for a Salesforce org
- Namespaces: the decision you cannot reverse
- Onboarding a developer
- Package upgrade behaviour
- Pair programming
- Release management: internal teams against ISVs
- Scratch orgs vs sandboxes: what each one is a copy of
- Second-generation packaging from scratch
- SLIs and SLOs for a Salesforce org
- Source tracking, push and pull
- Test levels for deployment
- The AppExchange security review
- The operational readiness review before go-live
- The Salesforce CLI commands you actually use
- The sandbox refresh checklist
- Triaging a deployment failure
- Validation-only deploys and quick deploy
- Writing a postmortem people actually read
- A report takes two row-level formulas, not three
- Bucket fields, and where they break
- Collaborative Forecasting, and why the number differs
- CRM Analytics or standard reports
- Cross filters: records with or without related records
- Dashboard filters and component choice
- Dashboard running user, and the numbers that change per viewer
- Dynamic dashboards, and the per-edition cap
- Exporting reports, and why the export differs
- Filter logic, cross filters and the filters that cannot be indexed
- Joined reports, and when they are the wrong answer
- Matrix reports, and when one beats a summary
- Report and dashboard folder sharing
- Report subscriptions, and why the email is empty
- Report types, and why yours is missing fields
- Reporting on field history
- Reporting on pipeline over time
- Reporting on service performance
- Reporting snapshots for trend analysis
- SAQL basics for SQL people
- Summary formulas: PARENTGROUPVAL and PREVGROUPVAL
- Why two users see different numbers
- Why your Salesforce report is slow
- Admin to developer
- Architect path
- Building a portfolio with no client work
- Certification strategy
- Consultant vs inhouse
- Contributing to open source in the ecosystem
- CTA: an honest assessment of the cost
- Freelancing
- Getting your first Salesforce job
- Going independent: the parts nobody mentions
- How people actually become Salesforce MVPs
- Interview questions
- Keeping up with three releases a year
- Mvp and community
- Reading a Salesforce job description honestly
- Salary and negotiation
- Trailhead versus actually building things
- Benioff’s Dreamforce ’26 keynote: the five claims
- Dreamforce ’26: what actually shipped
- Getting onto a sandbox preview instance
- How to work a Salesforce release without losing a week
- Reading release notes efficiently
- Salesforce retirement tracker: what is dated, and how to check your exposure
- The Release Updates that actually break things
- Winter ’27: the change that breaks integrations, and two you can take your time over
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