Salesforce.com Custom Metadata Types are around for over 2 years. If you are a Salesforce.com ISV and still not using Custom Metadata Types in your apps – you must consider the same.
What are Salesforce.com Custom Metadata Types?
Salesforce.com Custom Metadata Types are similar to custom settings (sometimes confused with them) – but they store the custom metadata instead of data. The advantage is that you can deploy them to production from a sandbox using change sets or as an ISV you can package them with your product.
If you are a Salesforce.com ISV vendor and have an app listed on Appexchange – the Salesforce.com app marketplace – you may be coming up with the new releases few times in a year. Are you maintaining release notes of the application properly? In the post we will be discussing the advantages of having the good release notes and how to prepare them.
Have you encountered the requirement where you want to assign all Even numbered records to one person and all Odd records to another? Here is a simple solution using the workflow rules that can help. You can use this on custom objects or even on objects that do not have Assignment rules. The requirement can also mean assigning the alternate records to two persons. This is similar to Round Robin assignment to two persons using workflow rules.
This article is for you if you are a new ISV vendor or you are new to Salesforce.com Security Review process. If you are planning to submit your app for security review – here are few items that you must consider before submitting your app.
Want to become a “Great” Force.com Developer? One does not become a successful App developer just by training or mere experience. Many of our clients for whom we are developing the Appexchange Apps ask – “We want a Great Force.com Developer”. What makes a Force.com developer great? and other developer not so great. From our experience of over 100 person years of development we realized that to be successful or a great developer you have to learn from the best practices – and Force.com developers are no exception.
