Trailhead Baby

I'm a ranger!  Whohoo!  I will wear my ranger hat with pride.  In addition to becoming a ranger, I am very excited because one of my favorite events is happening soon- Tahoe Dreamin'.  Tahoe Dreamin' is an event, led by the local Salesforce community, featuring sessions from Salesforce MVP's and experts in all things Salesforce. Why Tahoe Dreamin? The shirt from 2017's Tahoe Dreamin' my favorite!  For full disclosure, I should note that I've never attended a Dreamin' event.  Mom says that I have to wait until I turn 5.  I do get cool swag and t-shirts from Capstorm, since my mom's work sponsors many of the Dreamin' events. Which Dreamin' is your favorite? Here is a list of events coming in 2018!  Click the link under each logo to connect to each event's webpage. London's Calling February Tahoe Dreamin ' January 19-20 Snowforce March 8-9 Southeast Dreamin' March 15-16 Punta Dreamin' ...

Bye bye rain gear! Challenge 10 A confession - I read the requirements for tonight's challenge, panicked a little, then went straight to the developer community.  I've created a Lightning component before during a different Trail, however, the code was provided. # 10, the final challenge, of Salesforce's Trailhead Lightning Experience Rollout Specialist Superbadge:  The one that almost got away... Replace the Destination Success sidebar component tips: You will need to create a new component.  Name your component "DestinationSuccess"  Clear the pre-existing code from the component and enter the correct code. If you have having trouble with the code, this thread from developer.salesforce.com should help. <au Congratulations! You are officially a coder! Save, then we need to create the controller.   Click the blue "controller" button on the right.  Clear the pre-existing code from the controller and enter the new code....

No more rain! Challenge 8 I wish I was allowed to drink coffee...  This challenge had me up all night!  Perhaps I can sneak a sip of mom's pumpkin spice latte. There is a gotcha right at the beginning!  You can't enable knowledge unless you are a knowledge user.  A quick click to my user page solved that problem. This article from help.Salesforce.com  discusses how to enable Lightning Knowledge. In order to add the Knowledge sidebar to a Lightning app, a tab has be created in Classic.  Why?  I have no idea, but this article from help.Salesforce.com spells out the process. Next, you can edit the Knowledge object or create the Lightning Knowledge App!  I started with the object. Lightning Knowledge app creation....a few pointers! On the 2nd step, select the correct style of navigation. Consider including the "history" utility.  Why?  Reference this article . Don't forget to include the newly created "tab"! One final...

No lightning...just rain Challenge 7 For us who have completed the Reports and Dashboards Specialist Superbadge, challenge 7 shouldn't take much time.  If you are not as familiar with reports and dashboards in Salesforce Lightning, read on.  Below are tips for step 7 and a few gotchas. The order: The instructions under "Set Up Reporting for Sales Managers" provide a decent timeline with which tasks to complete first.  I made a few tweaks. Read the instructions!   Gotcha #1 :  A single report is needed to create all of the dashboard components. Craft the Opportunities Pipeline report - add all of the groupings specified by the dashboard components.  While you are still on the report, schedule the report to be sent to John Wiseman every Monday. Create the dashboard Add the 3 components.   Gotcha #2:  Use the correct labels!  Add the dashboard filter.   Gotcha #3: Use all of the stages, but not the "all" option.  Set ...

Prepared this time Challenge 6 Creating the "Key Sales Data" app was tricky because of my failure to look at the whole page.  I missed the "actions" section on the bottom right! By the time that I found the "actions" section, I had created a "Key Sales Data" home page, a "Key Sales Data" object....etc.  What a mess!   Start with an "App Page"! Pesky Paloma requires an awfully high amount of personal customization!  Before you create the New Lightning App specifically for her, make sure to read the challenge requirements in order to generate the correct API name. Errors & Solutions: There was an unhandled exception. Please reference ID: VRVEIUZR. Error: Faraday::ClientError. Message: MALFORMED_QUERY: When retrieving results with Metadata or FullName fields, the query qualificatio​ns must specify no more than one row for retrieval. Result size: 2 Solution: I had near-duplicate API names.  Key_Sales_Data a...