ArchiveNovember 2017

Pardot takes 30 minutes to record duplicate activities.

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You might have come across scenarios where consecutive submission of the same form (even if it’s with different values for fields other than the email field) or submitting multiple forms which are using the same form handler,  a) Did not increment the score of the prospect even though the score is supposed to increment by a particular value every time a form is submitted, b) Under prospect...

Geofencing

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Geofencing is the use of GPS or RFID technology to create a virtual geographic boundary, enabling software to trigger a response when a mobile device enters or leaves a particular area. The use of Geofence is called Geofencing. It requires Location aware device of a location-based service (LBS) user entering or exiting a geo-fence. This activity could trigger an alert to the device’s user...

Subclassing in Swift

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Subclassing is a very simple and useful concept of inheritance, when we create a subclass of any existing class then that custom class inherits all the methods and properties of existing or predefined class and moreover we can add our own user defined properties and methods to it.   Here is the syntax with example for subclassing , class myCustomButton : UIButton { var section = Int() }...

Automation testing Using Calabash

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Calabash is one framework that enables automated UI Acceptance Tests written in Cucumber to be run on iOS and Android applications. While Calabash integrates tightly with Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin. Android project, it can also be used with iOS and Android projects written in the indigenous languages of Objective-C and Java. Calabash is an open source Acceptance Testing framework that allows you to...

ERP Software Testing

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ERP stands for (Enterprise Resource Planning). In ERP software we can performed various types of testing like Functional Module Testing, Integration Testing, Performance testing & so on.Before testing the ERP as a whole, testing the individual modules is the first step in any comprehensive ERP test. Once the modules have been cleared, then “assemble” and test the ERP. This testing phase is...

Create Short URLs with Bitly

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This post is related to how to integrate Salesforce and Bitly to create short urls to include in communication Messages. Step 1. Sign-up for Bitly To use the Bitly API you will need to register. You can sign-up using Twitter, Facebook, or create a new login with their service. I chose to create a Bitly specific login using below url. Step 2. Create Bitly Apex Classes I developed below class, that...

Pass the parameter Values from Landing Page URL to Data Extensions – Ampscript

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I have a simple Landing page, and it’s URL contains some parameter values and those parameters are also Fields in a Data Extension of a Marketing Cloud Account. To update those parameter values into the Marketing Data Extension when a URL is pasted in your Web Browser, I would follow the below steps: Let us have an example URL of a landing page: www.abc.com For the full landing page url...

How to Upload files on FTP using FileZilla- Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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Marketing Cloud FTP cannot be accessed directly from Marketing Cloud UI. For that you need to install third party ftp clients. Below is the method to Import/Export files using one of the ftp client FileZilla. Download the latest version of FileZilla, google it. Install it.  Open Filezilla  Enter- Host, Username, Password and Port. ( all these details you can find in your Marketing Cloud account...

Prospect Account Score.

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Lets see how to check “Prospect Account Score”. We are already familiar with how to check prospect score, below are the steps where we can also see prospect account score. Steps: Prospect > Prospect Account > “AVG. PROSPECT SCORE” – this will show account score . Under prospect account we can also check prospects based upon accounts with their activity and...

15 Digit Vs 18 Digit Salesforce Record ID

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ID fields in the Salesforce.com user interface contain 15-character, case-sensitive strings. Each of the 15 characters can be a numeric digit (0-9), a lowercase letter (a-z), or an uppercase letter (A-Z).Two unique IDs may only be different by a change in case. Because there are applications like Access or Excel which do not recognize that 50130000000014c is a different ID from 50130000000014C...

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