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I'm ambivalent about this one and seek guidance: Let's say you have some service account user seats in your org and multiple people need to occasionally login to these. Let's further say that Login As ...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...

Last year was not an easy one, specially considering the circumstances revolving around Covid, and who knows what awaits us for this upcoming year. The community keeps growing, questions keep coming, ...

I tried to win this badge, but the site I am on (Salesforce Stackexchange) will only let me vote 38 times in a day. So I can never achieve the required 40. I have tried to vote 40 times last week as ...

I am not necessarily asking for a reconsideration, and I am not asking because I had an accepted answer (probably because I did have an accepted answer and looked at it again after a comment was added ...

May you please help me: this started to reproduce today, both on desktop and mobile site versions. I cannot see anything but scoring in Answer tab in Activity -> Summary, however, answers are seen ...

I saw a duplicate today asking: Why doesn't the following work? SObject record; // assigned elsewhere if (record.Some_Checkbox__c) { ... } It took me a little while to find a good Q&A, even ...

I am just reviewing the badges from SFSE site. But I can't find no badge is available and awarded for "Well formatted Question"/ "Good Format Question". So does anyone know why? ...

Suggest to create a synonym for the tag: list-view new synonym: listview

Not sure Meta is the right place for this, but I have stumbled upon https://salesforce.forumming.com/ which obviously copies posts from SFSE, alters the posters' names, and shows no references to SFSE ...

This site is currently set up to be a source of technical answers to technical questions. ie. We close out questions that are broad in nature, or contain many questions, or don't show any attempt by ...

I'm putting together some DevOps process options that include version control and CI/CD. They want to see options that include 3rd party tools that charge fees (such as Gearset), and "free" ...

Part of what gives me the make up to be a developer is following decorum, rules and logic. So it logically follows (see what I did there?) that I try to do that with SFSE. But, being a developer, I ...

Just pulled up some documentation for the String class again today (perhaps I'll eventually commit the entire contents to memory, but today is not that day), and noticed that Salesforce is rolling out ...

We're excited to announce that Gearset will be sponsoring the Salesforce Stack Exchange site for the upcoming year, as a part of our site sponsorship program and after successful experiences on both ...

Just a few minutes ago, I observed a new user account post an answer to a question. This answer was essentially unhelpful because it didn't really work. At the end of the short answer was a link to ...

[This is my first Meta post, so please be gentle....] The following question was closed as being Off-topic (as viewed when on the main question page) and "Not suitable for this site" (as ...

I have found myself providing quite fewer answers to Marketing Cloud questions compared to 3-4 months ago. I initially blamed it on my own laziness, but on the other hand, when going though the tagged ...

The Stack Exchange platform has a number of built-in mechanisms that aim to protect communities like ours from low-quality participation. One of them is the question ban. When a user asks enough ...

Often, there are scenarios to highlight the changes made to the user's code when answering. But using Bold Italic in code block makes it appear like below ***Codeblock*** Is there a different way I ...

My name is Vivek M. Chawla. I'm a Principal ISV Platform Expert at Salesforce and have been a member of the Salesforce StackExchange community since the beginning. I have a novel idea (at least it's ...

We both have marketing-cloud-connect, as well as marketing-cloud-connector as tags in SFSE. I have suggested to have them as synonyms, or alternatively merging could be considered, as they are so ...

This came up only because of the current issues with CLI and rest deployments, noted here. Recently, we got a question that was appropriately closed as it really had no information other than an error ...

I was happily surprised, seeing that I was only 10 points from hitting 1k on Marketing Cloud tag, when looking at the SE mobile app: However, the numbers on the web, are slightly lower: I would ...

SOQL is NOT SQL. The tag is misleading and shouldn't exist.

Is it possible to get any help here at all? I really need some assistance and I can see that so many questions here stay unanswered.

A lot of users struggle with initial setup and configuration of the Salesforce CLI. Many problems fall into a small number of buckets, but the solutions to those buckets seem to often be heterogenous ...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...

I've recently had to extirpate two separate groups (one large, one rather small) of sock puppet users posting plagiarized questions and/or answers. The plagiarism was from Salesforce Stack Exchange, ...

Last year is gone and was not that great for the world in general but I am grateful to be associated with this community. I love this community for being very active and encouraging and kind. It's ...

The nomination period for the new class of Salesforce MVPs is now open. Submit nominations here Find out about the program and criteria here We have a number of amazing MVPs contributing here at ...

For those of you who have always wonder more about the man (@sfdcfox), there is a new Salesforce Developers YouTube video: Episode 5: Salesforce Stack Exchange with Brian Fear | Salesforce Developer ...

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 ...