Past Study Groups

Study Group XIV – CI/CD Techniques and Tools with Emily McCowan

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In this session, Emily gives an overview of the principles and techniques involved in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of changes to metadata within Salesforce and between environments.

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Study Group XII: Community Building Blocks with Charly Prinsloo

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This month, the community voted to study Community Cloud – with particular focus on the building blocks involved. Charly (with Susannah’s help!) takes us through the various elements involved in building a Salesforce community!

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Jan 2019: Study Group XI: Bulk API & Lock Contention with Emely Patra

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A very special thank you to Emely Patra who was kind enough to donate her time to take us through the Bulk API and locking contention. She covered a detailed topic from the perspective of what you need to know for the review board and we all learnt something! Happy to share the recording and materials here with you.

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November 2018: Study Group X: Environment Management with Gemma Emmett

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Thank you to everyone who gave up their time to come and study environment management with us! We are happy to share the recording and resources here.

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October 2018: Study Group IX: Single Sign-On & SAML with Charly Prinsloo

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With 141 registrations, this was our first study group after Dreamforce! We also had the luxury of a CTA attending – and quite a few of our male friends too. Thank you for showing up and sharing your experiences with us all.

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Debugging & Deployment with Blanca Leon-Carter

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Jojn Blanca for the final session in her #LBAJourneyToPD1 series. This week it’s debugging and deployment, with a few valuable exam tips thrown in too:

  • Describe how to monitor and access various types of debug logs.
  • Describe the capabilities and security implications of the Developer Console, Workbench, and Force.com IDE.
  • Describe the different processes for deploying metadata and business data.
  • Describe how the different environments are used in the development and deployment process.

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Unit Testing with Blanca Leon-Carter

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In the penultimate session from Blanca’s PD1 course, we cover:

  • Describe the testing framework and requirements for deployment.
  • Describe how to write unit tests for triggers, controllers, and classes.  
  • Describe when and how to use various sources of test data.
  • Describe how to execute one or multiple test classes.
  • Describe the differences between invoking Apex in
    execute anonymous vs. unit tests.

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August 2018: Study Group VIII: Designing Customer Mobile Strategies with Charly Prinsloo

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In August, the community voted to take a look into customer mobile strategies as part of the Mobile Solutions Architecture certification. Charly happily stepped up to run this session, which covers:

  • Questions checklist
  • The pros and cons of Salesforce mobile apps vs custom apps
  • HTML5, Native (iOS/Android/Windows Mobile) or Hybrid solutions
  • Mobile app security
  • Testing strategy

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