{"id":524,"date":"2021-01-19T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T11:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transferttexei.wordpress.com\/2021\/01\/19\/tips-and-tricks-admin-tricks\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:39:57","slug":"tips-and-tricks-admin-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texei.com\/en\/advices\/tips-and-tricks-admin-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips and tricks\u00a0: Admin tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello SF addicts, today we will be talking about Salesforce tips and tricks. I choosed 3 that I use most of the time and that may not be known by everyone.<\/p>\n

There will be three parts giving you tricks making the Salesforce consultant journey easier, and I will start by those related to the Admin consultant:<\/p>\n

1. Debug server\u00a0response<\/h2>\n

If you want to see what the server responded when you clicked on whatever invoking an apex code, you can open your chrome console, and head to network section, and then see the response of the server. But hey, remember to do it before triggering the action.<\/p>\n

Here is an example:<\/p>\n

I created a button \u201cCr\u00e9er Devis\u201d that calls apex. When I click the button, I see the apex method invoked with a response \u201creturnValue\u201d:<\/p>\n

returnValue: {type: \u201cDevis publique\u201d, produit: \u201cproduit X\u201d, Contrat_Autoris\u00e9: \u201cOui\u201d}<\/em><\/p>\n

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If the server is down or something went wrong, you can still see the response without debugging or asking a developer to check for you.<\/p>\n

2. Salesforce inspector<\/h2>\n

This free browser extension make it so easy to manipulate Salesforce data.<\/p>\n

While connected to a Salesforce instance with your browser, you can do the following:<\/p>\n