TrailheaDX, Low Code and more
Salesforce
The second all-digital TrailheaDX took place on June 23rd. One of the advantages of a digital event is that most of the content is recorded in advance and ready for on demand access shortly after the event, which is handy when you are watching from the UK and it doesn’t start until your working day has ended. You can view all the content at : https://www.salesforce.com/trailheadx/ - note that you’ll still need to register and accessing the recordings isn’t straightforward. Go onto any channel, then scroll down to find the Product & Partner Demos link and click that. Then expand the section you are interested in and start the video playing. Then click on the top left and you’ll see the playlist where you can find the actual session you want to watch. Clearly whoever put this maze together hadn’t earned the User Experience designer cert.
A fair bit of the content TrailheaDX content is about features/apps that were announced some time ago - like Functions and DevOps Center, but there are some relatively new items covered like Dynamic Interactions, Diagrams, and the continued tightening of the partnership between Salesforce and AWS.
50-60% of Salesforce employees will work from home after the pandemic, says Marc Benioff. Based on what I’m seeing at BrightGen, I’m surprised it’s that low. Given the number of Salesforce Towers around the world, there will be a fair bit of space going begging. I sense we might see a trend of more than one Ohana floor!
In a move that surprised nobody, now that vaccines are exerting some semblance of control over the pandemic, work.com is expanding its remit to include HR functions employee growth and well being.
And finally for the (in my opinion) interested stuff from the last month, the Trailblazer Community got a makeover, some new features and tighter integration with the Trailhead Go app.
Me
I had time to do some thinking about the odd new feature in the Summer 21 release. Permission Set Groups with Expiration Dates look to have a lot of uses over and above the obvious.
It’s been a while, but it had to happen eventually - I’ve written another Salesforce CLI Plug-in. This one captures limits information after a test has been run, and can write it back to a Salesforce instance if that floats your boat. This allows you to keep tabs on the limits consumed by your critical code and flag up if they change.
A lot of the focus in TrailheaDX was about low-code, as is quite a lot of Salesforce marketing activity these days. Something that’s been troubling me a little is the messaging that not writing unit tests is a virtue, so I finally put fingers to keyboard about it, explaining that I think Low Code Still Needs Unit Tests.
Other
A new community event - Consultancy Dreamin’ takes place on July 8th. I’ve been looking after a cohort of speakers for this event, which means that I get to see their sessions in advance. Having listened in on a few dry runs, I can highly recommend attending to hear the end result - there’s some great insight in there, whether you are already a consultant or are considering becoming one.