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With the advent of LWC, Salesforce is adopting the JS more. And we're getting more JS/HTML related questions. Can we have a executable code snippets(like fiddler), which will show output in the answer ...

Proposal to add vs-code as a synonyms with visualstudiocode for the SalesforceStackExchange.

I've just discovered that AMPscript (a scripting language for Salesforce Marketing Cloud) supports syntax highlighting in SFSE using the language tag lang-ampscript after the code fence (```). Where ...

Oftentimes I see people answer questions and they say that they are a Salesforce employee so they are sharing some internal knowledge or deeper understanding that would not be made clear in the ...

(This is a first draft canonical Q&A, to be moved to the main SFSE later, as per the discussion on Query Bulkification Patterns looking for comments and input from other interested contributors.) ...

I keep seeing lots of questions about how to bulkify queries (often in the context of a trigger) based on data from a collection of input objects. We are all aware of the typical approaches such as ...

A question was asked few days ago, which was quickly being marked as a duplicate, and eventually closed: Updating Subscriber(Contact) key in Marketing Cloud While I agree on a similar question having ...

I need some help getting IntelliJ and Azure DevOps repository connected for Salesforce dev. I cannot figure out how to connect the Azure DevOps to IntelliJ to add code to the repo. Is it OK to ask ...

I wanted to register for new certification exam in webassessor but when I tried to login, it threw incorrect username and password error. I tried to reset password multiple times but I haven't ...

There are two tags - einstein-chatbot and bots which basically are about the same thing and users use them interchangeably. Why not unifying them?

'Flow' tag is currently set as a synonym for 'visual-workflow' tag meaning that questions tagged 'flow' are auto-updated to 'visual-workflow'. Since 'visual-workflow' is a retired feature I don't ...

I proposed an edit for the following answer on the grounds that the TLDR; was incorrect. isNotBlank(inputString) vs isNotEmpty(inputString) Original statement in answer: TL;DR - If you want to return ...

When answering a question on SFSE one might not be aware of exactly what tags are provided on the question, before after posting the answer. If a tag is added, after the answer is placed, will it ...

In trying to post an answer today, I found none of my headers rendered. When I typed > ### Some Header it rendered the ### rather than making the line into an <h3>. Header I also tried using =...

The question I asked here: Why is SystemModStamp missing updates? has been closed. The reason given is "not within this site's scope", but no further explanation is given. I'd like to know: ...

This recent question prompted me to answer the OP because the question actually involved a decent unit test (although, it needs some tweaking), the code itself was impossible to test. I don't think we ...

Per this help page, I can vote to reopen a question, as I have over 3000 rep, but I cannot see a way to do so. I do have the option to edit the question, but I don't think the question needs editing. ...

I tried to reply to a user by way of comment on my answer, which normally I do all the time to make sure they get the comment, but this time, when I tried, I got the generic "Comments cannot ...

What is the point of using this forum if every question I ask about LWC superbadge is closed before I can get an answer ?

I've noticed the close queue lately having a lot of questions in it regarding trailhead challenges. Specifically, the LWC Superbadge. It's gotten to the point where I think we've seen questions on all ...

In asking the below question regarding MFA authentication and what it prevents against in the context of Salesforce, I'm not sure I understand why this was marked as opinion based. Particularly ...

The deliverability tag (misspelled: deliverabiilty): https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deliverabiilty - could use some TLC, or at least some spell checking. As I don't yet have ...

We see quite frequently questions appearing on SFSE, under Marketing-Cloud tag, which might equally belong on StackOverflow. Knowing how often SQL is needed in SFMC, I understand the need of having ...

As many of you know, I love this community and try and contribute where I can. My personal philosophy is that .. If I run into a problem using Salesforce Where the answer doesn't come to me through ...

On Monday 18th of May I was on my 99th day of site visiting streak. I'm pretty sure I visited the site the May 19th, I even have it logged in my web browser's history. Unfortunatelly on May 20th my ...

While there's only so much we can do to protect posters from their own mistakes, we do not want SFSE to be a locus of any type of data breach or bad-actor activity. If you see a post that contains any ...

User Didntstormarea51 (https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/71040/didntstormarea51) just posted 3 answers to questions that were a few years old in the past 5 hours. This by itself is not too ...

I wanted to mark this question as a duplicate of this one, which has upvoted and accepted answer. However, it's not possible - I cannot find this question, picrel below: Can someone please explain me ...

I am trying to create a custom filter in stack exchange to find all answered questions on a particular topic(that has green tick). I was able to filter by topic name. But how do I further filter on ...

I remember reading about shortcuts for Edit (the original post) and for How To Ask. How do include those in my comments?

StackOverflow has recently added a really awesome dark theme. I was wondering if we can ask Salesforce Stack Exchange to also add that. Thanks! Btw for anyone who hasn't seen the Stack Overflow dark ...

Stack Exchange has announced that a new question-asking interface is going to roll out to the network on Tuesday. This experience adds some additional guidance to asking questions, particularly for ...

For transparency and to invite review, I just updated the community wiki answer for the question Lightning Web Components - Benefits and Support. Main changes: Verified the "supported" versus "...

I proposed an edit for this answer on the grounds that the code doesn't run: How to query the count of child records in soql Code in original answer: Select count(Id) totalChilds, Account__c ...

Inspired by a What should we do with out-of-date answers question I wanted to ask what should be done with questions which are out-of-date? 2 years ago I asked a question which eventually has been ...

So @sfdcfox's answer here got flagged because it's not longer accurate: Can you select what release your scratch orgs are on Part of me thinks I should just delete it, so that the correct ...

Might've gotten a bit ahead of myself on my previous meta. It'd be helpful to have some guidelines to determine if a given question is or is not a code-review question. The intent here is to start ...

The most recent discussion we had on code review questions was Appropriate Code Review Posts, and the general feel I got from that was "Code review is generally off-topic here, and there is codereview....

Recently I've started reviewing the First Posts queue and very often there's the same thing to say to a new user which is asking to take a tour, read how to ask a question etc. So one time I saw a ...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

100k, 200k and now 300k. Such an amazing feat. Heartily congrats Brian and thanks for your amazing help in making SFSE a great success. I can't count how many times you have helped me in reaching a ...

Today (18th Dec 2019), I've noticed that a 2-year old question was modified by a non-moderator user but I could not clearly see what was actually edited. From home, the question is indicated to have ...

This is another follow up to Let's talk about closure. Our on topic Help page has not been substantively revised in many years. As the one (I believe) Help page that we have the ability to write, it'...

I edited a answer when i was not logged with my credetials. There's any way to get credit for it? Thanks in advance.

This is a follow-up to Let's talk about closure to talk specifically about closure reasons and messaging. (This topic was previously discussed here). Over the last 90 days, we’ve closed 17.5% of ...

We've had rumblings in a few quarters over the last few months that point to dissatisfaction in a slice of the community that seems significant enough to me to say "let's get it out here". That ...

Public service announcement: The MVP nominations are open from now until December 9th, 2019. Feel free to nominate those who have made an exceptional contribution to the SFSE community. That could ...

Today, I am suddenly seeing shaded questions as below: What does that mean? Its not voted question/answered question/etc ? (not able to understand - its just random)

I am not active member of salesforce but active spam hunter. One of our bot caught this question which draw my attention. Long title with out space (In this case it's gibberish) heading out of design ...

This particular user, account created today, was set up solely to spam (in my opinion at least). Their one and only post so far was already deleted by our moderator(s), but links remain on their ...