With the recent Salesforce’s announcement on end of life of permissions on profiles, permission sets and permission set groups are the future of user management. Permission Set Groups allow bundles of permissions to be assigned to a User. They fill the gap between monolithic Profiles and atomistic Permission Sets, which is nice. Now imagine a …
Category Archives: Apex
An anti-pattern causing the “CPU time limit exceeded” error in batch Apex
I recently came across a “CPU time limit exceeded” error thrown from an Apex class that implements the Batchable interface. It is not a typical one caused by excessive Apex logic according to the following observations: There is no stack trace or error details. The error is consistently hit on the first batch of the …
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A simple Apex trigger framework
Whether one should use an Apex trigger framework or not is probably worth a separate discussion since any abstraction is at a cost and the cost could outweigh the benefits of the framework prematurely introduced. For the case that little business logic needs to be managed in triggers, a general practice is to keep it …
Namespace prefix issues with SObject fields map within managed packages
For lots of the cases, we need to find all fields of an SObject (such as Contact) so we do this: This returns a map with each key being a field name and value being the corresponding SObjectField. Keys have all lower case characters. Confusion comes in on the keys when this code is executed from within a managed package installed …
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Object alias in SOQL
The object alias used in SOQL can reduce the number of characters in query string and improve the readability. Suppose there are these objects with parent-child relationship: Parent: ObjectA Child: ObjectB Grand Child: ObjectC And all of these objects have three fields: Field1, Field2 and Field3. A normal SOQL statement that join these objects from …
Count large number of records (more than 50,000)
In a Salesforce org that has more than 50,000 records of an object, the following simple count() query will still hit the Salesforce governor limit: “System.LimitException: Too many query rows: 50001” Even though it seems that the count function does not need to traverse the whole Contact table, it still does, for specific reasons like …
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Invoke Contact triggers logic on Person Accounts
To learn about Person Accounts, the features and their intended use, see training guide from Salesforce Implementing Person Accounts. Cons and Pros of enabling Person Accounts are discussed on many blogs. Business people embrace it but developers tend to stay away. However, it is essential to take Person Account into consideration if the managed package …
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Gotcha: convertTimezone() must be used in SOQL Date functions dealing with Datetime
SOQL Date functions are pretty useful for grouping or filtering data by date fields. With a proper Date function used in the SOQL, the code can potentially limit the query result records a lot. e.g. Query all Tasks that are created today: The above code looks neat enough although the function DAY_ONLY is not that …
Apex controller class “without sharing” in practice
A general practice of defining a controller is to prepend “with sharing” key word to “class”. This is to enforce the sharing rules that apply to the current user as otherwise sharing rules aren’t taken into account during code execution. Recently in a project I came across a requirement in which “without sharing” plays a role. We have a custom …
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Customization: Conditionally display a message on the standard detail page
Ever wonder dynamically displaying a warning or information message on an object’s detail page without affecting whatever layout is used? Here is a simple requirement: you have an object called MyObject. If you go to view any MyObject record that is created today, you will see an information message “Hello world!” at top of the …
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