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Slack Certs – Phil’s Salesforce Tip of the Week #499

Welcome to Phil’s Salesforce Tip of the Week #499

 

Tip 1 – Slack Certs

Slack CertsWant to build up your Slack cert skills and get recognition for your knowledge?

Slack is becoming part of our everyday work tool, so it’s always good to get the most out of it.

Visit this site, register for Skills ‘Trails’, then take your Admin/Developer Certs.

Then you can join Credential Holder Library and show off your skills to the world.

 

Tip 2 – Formula Updates

Hot News straight from the Salesforce CTO Steve Tamm, here are 2 big updates to Formulas…

First that the maximum size had tripled (here is the outdated Help page, in case you want to know what this 5k to 15k change refers to).

And secondly, there will be new formula functions like “ASCII, CHR, DAYOFYEAR, INITCAP, SIN/COS/TAN, ASIN…, ISOWEEK, ISOYEAR, UNIXTIMESTAMP, FROMUNIXTIME, PI, TRUNC. Maybe FORMATDURATION and IFERROR”

 

 

Tip 3 – Happy Easter

I hope you and your families & friends have an enjoyable Easter!

Here’s the worlds cutest fluffy bunny!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only ONE more Tip of the Week till I reach my #500th edition (NEXT WEEK)!

 

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Priyanka Miryalkar, Meet the Galacticos

Priyanka Miryalkar, Mulesoft Lead Developer – Meet the Galacticos

 

Welcome to the latest in our series of Meet the Galacticos blogs to learn more about our growing Cloud Galacticos team. Say ‘hello’ to Priyanka Miryalkar, one of our few recent recruits. We caught up with Priyanka to ask her a few questions.

 

Priyanka Miryalkar, Mulesoft Lead Developer

 

Hi Priyanka, can you give us a bit of background about yourself and your work history?

I’m from an IT background  from a small town in India. After my education I moved to the city and after so many hurdles joined start-up companies and product based companies in my journey and learned a lot.

I have more than ten years of experience in the IT industry. I initially started my career as a tester, then moved to middleware technologies, scripting like Node.js, Mule4, Javascript, and queuing servers like activeMQ.

My relevant experience is six plus years of experience on integration platforms and worked with different companies on integration roles. My last role was with Hitachi Vantara India. I worked as Senior integration lead where I used to be a solo contributor from offshore on Mulesoft integration. It involved different projects with internal and external clients, including participated onshore go-lives with the salesforce development and admin team.

 

What’s your story behind joining the Cloud Galacticos team?

Priyanka Miryalkar, Cloud GalacticosI always wanted to have a learning experience in my career. Also to make sure any company I joined should have that learning curve and should also have that family time.

When I spoke to Phil and Paul, it felt good and they gave me that confidence to take on this role. I think Cloud Galacticos is a place where I can leverage my skills and also learn new things.

 

 

 

 

 

What is your role as a Mulesoft Lead Developer at Cloud Galacticos, and what do you enjoy about it?

  1. Responsible for programming and software development using various programming languages and related tools and frameworks, reviewing code written by other programmers, requirement gathering, bug fixing, testing, documenting and implementation.
  2.  Understand and implement Dataweave scripts. Deploy APIs to Cloudhub.
  3.  Mule applications developed to connect third parties APIs easily and quickly. Regardless of various technologies used by applications, Mule ESB enables easy integration of applications, enabling them to exchange data.
  4. Had enablement calls with Podpoint team and with MuleSoft team. Onboarded few resources and allocated stories together and worked on it.
  5. I enjoy working with multiple people because integration is all about engaging so many teams and demonstrating the applications.

 

Do you have plans to take any Salesforce certifications in the near future?

I have very good experience working with salesforce sales and services cloud from the past. So, I have already done my admin certification on salesforce. I’m also a Mule 4 certified developer. However, I am planning to do the Architect level certification on Mulesoft later this year. And if required I’ll look into more Salesforce certs.

 

Aside from Salesforce and working at Cloud Galacticos, what else do you enjoy doing?

I spend most of my days in front of a computer which isn’t the healthiest thing. I try to minimise screen time where possible. So I try to spend as much time with nature – gardening, or going for walks. I also enjoy reading books on human psychology, cooking, and just hanging out with family and friends. I really miss my large family back in India, I have long video calls with them almost everyday.

 

Anything else you want to add?

Priyanka Miryalkar LondonI celebrated my one year wedding anniversary in the UK, but I haven’t had the chance to explore many places.

I’m planning to go on vacation this summer – it’d be great to get few suggestions on budget-friendly places to visit in the UK!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Favourites:

Food: Chicken and Mutton Biryani anytime ,chicken, seafood

Drink: Anything non alcoholic 

TV Shows: Young Sheldon, Steve Harvey shows and lots of drama series from Netflix and amazon prime

Film: I think my all time favourite movie is Argo, Schindler’s List, and the Terminal and a few fantasy movies. 

Animal: Dogs and Cows

Place to Visit: India always (especially Hyderabad)

 

About Cloud Galacticos

Cloud Galacticos is a Salesforce consultancy with an all-star team. We are user and developer group leaders, bloggers, MVPs and all round Salesforce nerds. Our company has people all over the UK including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, and London.

So if you are looking for a Salesforce partner with experience to help you make the most of your org, why not get in contact?

 

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Pardot – Phil’s Salesforce Tip of the Week #498

Welcome to my Salesforce Tip of the Week #498

Tip 1 – No Pardot Tattoos

PardotJust as people started to pronounce it properly, we wave goodbye to Pardot – and say hello to the catchily named ‘Marketing Cloud Account Engagement’.

The general aim of some pretty big rebranding is ‘to integrate Marketing Cloud into one unified platform‘.

Read the full post here, so you don’t miss out, or get the wrong logo inked on your body!

 

 

 

 

Tip 2 – Mulesoft

MulesoftAt Galactico Towers we are working more and more in the MuleSoft world as well as Salesforce.

If you are doing similar you will probably want to get involved in the MuleSoft community too.

Click here for a summary and links to their Community pages, Events listings, and Mentor/Ambassador programs.

 

 

 

Tip 3 – No a Sprint

Not a SprintSo it’s nearly 500 weeks since I started this blog, thank you for all your support and feedback over the years!!

Last Sunday I reminded myself, that life is more of a marathon than a sprint!

Have a great weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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London’s Calling Speakers

Cloud Galacticos is proud to be one of only two Platinum Sponsors for this year’s London’s Calling event (alongside OwnBackUp). We’re also proud to have two of our team members as London’s Calling speakers.

London’s Calling is one of our favourite Salesforce related events. It’s also Europe’s largest community-led event for Salesforce professionals. And this year, it’s back as an in-person event in June.

 

London’s Calling Speaker: Paul Battisson 

London's Calling Speaker Paul BattissonOur COO Paul Battisson, will be one of two from Cloud Galacticos who will be a London’s Calling speaker. His session will be ‘Getting the Job – Tips and Tricks for Salesforce Interviews and Careers’.

My hope for the session is to help people who are looking for a new job or to improve their career with some practical tips about growing your career and nailing job interviews.”

This is my 5th time speaking at London’s Calling and it’s always such a great event. It will also be one of my first in-person events for a while so I’m excited to reconnect with the community face to face again after too long.

I’ll be spending a fair bit of time at the Cloud Galacticos Platinum Sponsor booth, so come by and say hi!

Paul will also be speaking at DreamOle, in Madrid, in April.

 

London’s Calling Speaker: Mark Jones

Mark Jones Cloud GalacticosThe second person from our team speaking at London’s Calling will be Mark Jones, a Salesforce Consultant. His session will be ‘Skills for Success: The Skills Every Admin Needs to Succeed in Their Career’.

This session will provide you with a high-level overview of the skills needed to succeed in the ecosystem as a Salesforce Administrator. You’ll get the chance to hear a little bit about each of the skills identified by Salesforce and be signposted to some really good resources related to each skill. If you’re a Salesforce Admin, or simply just want to understand the role a little more, then this session is for you.

I’m really looking forward to speaking at London’s Calling this year. This is one of the events that I’ve had on my wish list of events to speak at for a few years now. It’s great to finally be able to do it. I feel this topic is one that is so important to a very large portion of the ecosystem, so I’m really looking forward to being able to talk on this subject.”

Mark also spoke at Cactusforce in January. You can watch it again here. Mark will be heading to Prague in May to speak at CzechDreamin’ (same session as London’s Calling).

 

Event Details

London’s Calling will be held at The Brewery, in London on Friday 10th June. It will be an action packed day full of great sessions from great speakers, Demo Jam, and Keynote guests. It’s also a great chance to catch up with the Salesforce Ohana. Don’t forget to buy your ticket here.

 

About Cloud Galacticos 

Cloud Galacticos is a Salesforce Gold Consulting Partner with an all-star team. We are user and developer group leaders, bloggers, MVPs and all round Salesforce nerds. Our Salesforce consultancy has people all over the UK including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, and London.

So if you are looking for a Salesforce Gold partner with experience to help you make the most of your org, why not get in contact?

 

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AI for NonProfits – Phil’s Salesforce Tip of the Week #497

Welcome to Phil’s Salesforce Tip of the Week #497

 

Tip 1 – New Trail / AI for NonProfits

AI for NonProfit

Here is a new short overview of using AI for NonProfits.

It will give you the basics and then suggest resources to learn more and get started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip 2 – Name Change

No spaghetti farming, alien landings, or other hoaxes from me today…just some news that Salesforce HAS actually changed it’s name officially this week.

Click here for the story. You can trust me!!??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yeukai Business Show

Yeukai Business Show

Yeukai Business Show is a UK-based podcast. It’s ‘dedicated to helping business owners and entrepreneurs succeed though the expert knowledge of [its] highly esteemed guests. The latest guest happens to be our very own COO, Paul Battisson.

 

Yeukai Business Show – Episode 408

Yeukai Business Show - Episode 408 - Paul BattissonThe show is hosted by Trevor Stockwell, a leadership coach and trainer.

Paul starts off by talking about how* he got to where he is today as COO of Cloud Galacticos.

The podcast is 37 minutes long which is perfect with your morning coffee or daily commute. You can listen here. And why not check out the other Yeukai Business Show podcasts too?

 

 

 

 

*It was writing computer programmes on Championship Manager.

 

About Cloud Galacticos 

Cloud Galacticos is a Salesforce Gold Consulting Partner with an all-star team. We are user and developer group leaders, bloggers, MVPs and all round Salesforce nerds. Our Salesforce consultancy has people all over the UK including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, and London.

So if you are looking for a Salesforce Gold partner with experience to help you make the most of your org, why not get in contact?

 

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Snowfakery – Phil’s Salesforce Tip of the Week #496

Welcome to my Salesforce Tip of the Week #496

 

Tip 1 – Maintenance Due?

Maintenance Due

Just in case…I am sure we have all done this already…

But the Spring ‘21 Salesforce Certification maintenance deadline is in 2 weeks time (Friday April 8th).

For Winter ’22 you have plenty of time. If in doubt, take 30 seconds to check…it will help you sleep better at night!

 

 

Tip 2 – Appexchange

Appexchange

Take a peak at the new look Appexchange. Judging by this article (which highlights what has changed) these may be the first updates of many.

So keep an eye out and give some feedback where possible.

 

 

 

Tip 3 – Snowfakery

Snowfakery

Just in case the name does not give it away “Snowfakery is a tool for generating fake data that has relations between tables. Every row is faked data, but also unique and random, like a snowflake.

It is an open-source tool created by Salesforce.Org which I think many of us will find useful.

Read more about it here.

 

 

 

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Salesforce Spring '22 Release Highlights

Salesforce Spring ’22 Release Highlights

The Salesforce Spring ‘22 Release went live last month. As usual there were hundreds of new products and features to get excited about. So we asked some of our team members what were their highlights from the Salesforce Spring ‘22 Release.

 

Enzo Denti, Salesforce Architect 

Enzo Denti, Cloud Galacticos

Multilingual Einstein Bots

I really like this new feature that enables your company to reach out to a larger audience by making it simpler to communicate with you… in their own language.

When I was at Uni in Italy the teacher told us “Computer Science speaks English” and yeah he was right. There are computer terms that you cannot translate. For me, since English is not my first language I always had to catch up to understand. Instead, it’s great how Salesforce is solving this for your customer and providing an easier and more inclusive way for them to get the support they need.

 

Relevant Links:

Multilingual Einstein Bot – Spring 22 Release Feature

Reach More Audiences with Multiple Language Einstein Bots

 

UI Test Automation Model

I come from a Developer background and in time I learned to appreciate good, robust automated tests. 

I always loved the testing requirements for Apex, not seeing them as a chore to cover the code and make my code deploy, but as insurance that my code was behaving as expected, despite changes. Since the introduction of the Aura component the developer community was asking for a testing tool for the new dynamic UIs.
Finally, it’s here native in Salesforce, the ability to test thoroughly your UI and avoid the boring and repetitive manual testing.

It is flexible as well since it’s agnostic of the application under test and leaves it to you to decide what test runner to use, what ask more, it’s powerful and flexible.

Relevant link:

Write More Robust UI Tests with UTAM

 

Nkosi Ncube, Developer

Einstein for Nonprofits

Nonprofit organisations generally operate on a low budget and mostly rely on donations and giving the fundraisers tools to efficiently predict donor behaviour makes for efficient fundraising.

Einstein for Nonprofit is the new AI based product designed specifically for Nonprofit cloud, unfortunately not free but at a lesser cost than other AI products, its core component is Einstein Prediction Builder

This product gives non-profits the power to analyse and understand donor behaviour and predict future donor engagement and all this is out of the box.

Linking of CRM data to accounting systems is also enabled to link up finance departments and other teams.

Prerequisites for installing Einstein for Nonprofits

  • MyDomain enabled and deployed in your org.
  • Salesforce Data Privacy and Protection enabled. This setting is enabled by default for your org.
  • A license for SFDO Insights Einstein for Nonprofits with a current start date. You can install Einstein for Nonprofits if the start date is in the future, but you won’t be able to use the app until the date that the license is active. If your license expires, you receive an error message.
  • NPSP Recuring Donations configured for your org.
  • Einstein Prediction Builder enabled for your org.

Relevant link:

Before You Install Einstein for Nonprofits

 

Mark Jones, Salesforce Consultant

Mark Jones, Cloud Galacticos

Set the Order for Your Record-Triggered Flows

Admins can now set the Order of Execution for their Record-Triggered Flows. This feature is something that has been in high demand for quite some time. It’s great to see it finally come to be. All you need to do to be able to set the order is add a number between 1 and 2,00 in the Advanced Settings of your Record-Triggered Flow and you’re set. Do bear in mind that Flows with a Trigger Order of 1 – 1,000 will run first, followed by Flows without a number, followed by Flows with a Trigger Order between 1,001 and 2,000.

This feature makes it easier than ever to create multiple Record-Triggered Flows on a singular object. On top of that as a bonus highlight, you can see the order of all of your Record-Triggered Flows in the new Flow Trigger Explorer. Flow Trigger Explorer groups your Flows into Fast-Field Updates, Actions and Related Records and Flows that Run Asynchronously, giving you a great means of viewing how your and when your Flows will run.

Relevant Links
Define the Run Order of Record-Triggered Flows for an Object
Visualize All Your Record-Triggered Flows in One Place with Flow Trigger Explorer

 

Migrate Your Workflow Rules into Flow

When Salesforce initially announced the plans to retire Workflow Rules and Process Builder, one of the things a number of Admins that I have personally spoken to were concerned about was how they move their older pieces of declarative automation into Flow? This is where Salesforce’s automation migration tools come into play. Now you can migrate your existing Workflow Rules into Flow with an easy-to-navigate wizard that will intelligently create the right Record-Triggered Flow based on the Workflow Rule that you’re migrating. It’s a tool that does the job it is designed to do very well. However, I would recommend reviewing your Workflow Rules before making any decisions on which ones to migrate.

I’d also recommend reading the release notes as the tool can’t migrate all Workflow Rules at this time. Although updates are due to be made to resolve that. If you have Workflow Rules that can be copied into Flow like-for-like, this is a tool that will help you do that. FYI, a migration tool for Process Builder is slated for a future release.

Relevant Link:

Convert Workflow Rules to Flows with the Migrate to Flow Tool (Beta)

 

About Cloud Galacticos 

Cloud Galacticos is a Salesforce Consulting Partner with an all-star team. We are user and developer group leaders, bloggers, MVPs and all round Salesforce nerds. Our Salesforce consultancy has people all over the UK including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, and London.

So if you are looking for a Salesforce Gold partner with experience to help you make the most of your org, why not get in contact?

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Logo Contest – Phil’s Salesforce Tip of the Week #495

Welcome to my Salesforce Tip of the Week #495

 

Tip 1 – Logo Contest

Logo Contest

Today is the last chance to vote in the Winter ’23 Release Logo Contest. Click here now.

 

 

 

 

 

Tip 2 – New Module

I noticed this on the Salesforce Architects blog. Check this new Trailhead module to help you learn how to develop Salesforce diagrams with Lucidchart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip 3 – Non-Profit Summit

As I mentioned previously, the NonProfit Summit 2022 will take place virtually on May 17-18th. Registration is finally open, so click here to get your ticket.

 

 

 

 

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World Tour London Date – Phil’s Tip of the Week #494

Welcome to my Salesforce Tip of the Week #494

 

Tip 1 – Happy Birthday

It feels like a lot has happened in 23 years! Congratulations to Salesforce and the Ohana!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip 2 – World Tour London Date

World Tour London Date

The World Tour London has been announced, or re-announced with a different date.

The new date is June 16th, unfortunately close to the other big Salesforce UK event of 2022 London’s Calling (June 10th).

I’m sure I will be at both, you?

 

 

 

 

Tip 3 – Book of the Week

Another of the books recommended by Bill Gates (this is probably one of the few similarities between the 2 of us!), was recently on my list too.

It is a fascinating read with some astounding facts and figures you just don’t seem to hear on the news.

Have a read of Factfulness!

 

 

 

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