Trailhead - Navigate the Salesforce Advantage

I think most of you (probably all) are aware of TRAILHEAD!! An awesome tool design by a great team of Salesforce to help new and experience developers. It helped me a lot to get over lightning concepts and I hope you must have your own favorite list.

For everyone who is getting started with Salesforce or planning to get started have a very common question what is Salesforce? Why we should start working on Salesforce? These are the points which were (YES! were) missing from Trailhead. Again thanks to Trailhead which Salesforce recently launched which is all about this. 

Due to this one can easily get better understanding of Salesforce and will sort out many puzzles which may be running from a long time in mind. As we are all aware that how easy is to use trailhead, so these new modules just add "Cherry on the Cake". In these modules you will find information related to every aspect of Salesforce whether it is their Service, Security or their core values. Now it is easy for me to train newbies who joins my company as fresher. It tool a lot of initial headache and made my life easy. Am pretty sure it will not take much time even if anyone who doesn't know about Salesforce goes through it.

Best part is the security, which is a big concern now a days (even from long). Salesforce has a lot of security protocols which ensures safety of your data. I think if I remember correctly not even Salesforce internal members can see your data until you authorize them to do so. Would like to add one more point here, that there is a link to create free developer account and more details about different modules including the newly added IOT cloud.

Reference: https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/trail/salesforce_advantage

Happy Trailhead!

Summer Of Trailhead - Jaipur Salesforce Developer Group

We've recently hosted an event which is organized by Salesforce globally and it was all about "Trailhead". First of all thank you so much everyone who attended the meeting and make it a big success. This time we've received maximum number of attendees ever in Jaipur DUG history. Yes! over 90 people attended and with full enthusiasm.

Those who were not able to attend here is the glance of what you've missed.

At the beginning we've organized a hands-on session on Trailhead where Gaurav Kheterpal explained how to get started and then all were supposed to complete one full trail.

Trust me many of them have done that in 15-20 mins.

It was time to award them :-)

After that Durgesh Dhoot done a fantastic job by demoing some awesome tools on SF which is very helpful to every developer. Here is the slidedeck from where you can get the links and take benefit out of it.

Followed by Abhinav Gupta who shared his experience using trailhead. It's not only for the developers to get started, but also helpful for the companies who are recruiting freshers and Trailhead can be used in interview process as well.

It was really a second perspective of looking at trailhead.

We then ended up having lunch along with beer :-)

Now we are again organizing an event where Salesforce is going to reveal something big, for which we are all waiting for. If you want to join us please click her and register yourself. It will be more awesome as it a late night event.

Stay tuned here for more updates on user group.

Trailhead!! Developer Training Modules

Fantastic tool to make anyone comfortable with Salesforce. Are you new to Salesforce or searching for any topic in detail. Here you go.

Here you will find info specific to each topic and in detail. I would recommend all to go though this specially those who are thinking to give certification exams.

The only problem while registering is I was not able to associate my DE with trailhead because I've registered a namespace. So I created a new profile and completed some of the courses.

So steps are pretty simple

1) Go to this link

2) Select the module which you want to start with and then start your challenge.

(i) Getting Started with Force.com Platform

(ii) Intro to Visual App Development

(iii) Intro to programmatic App Development

Every time you complete a challenge you get points against it which is awesome. To get the points either you've to answer some questions which are related to the specific topic or you need to follow some instructions in your organisation.

Like recently two new modules have been added

1) Data Security

Here explained all aspects of securing your data, like privacy of one's data from another. Or if records are visible to others they can't be edited. Or if can be edited then only few specific fields.

This excersise is super helpful for all those who are struggling with the sharing rules, permission sets etc..

2) Change Management

Must read module specially for developers. This will help you better understand what you should follow while developing a functionality like first develop in sandbox, then deploy it to UAT/Testing org to make sure everything is working fine as generally UAT is full copy sandbox and exact replica of production. And then deploy it to production, this way you can ensure that your functionality is bulletproof and your production is safe to run on it.

These are just sample explanations, don't miss looking in all modules and many more are being added.

Cheers