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This post is all about how efficiently custom settings can be used in the class so that we can avoid null pointer exception while running test class with seealldata is false. As per the best practice concern, we should not use SeeAlldata is true in all the test class.If we wont use that attribute then we need to create all the test data(custom setting record and object record ) in the test class. We might not aware of all the custom setting which will be required to be inserted because they will be refereed in the trigger of some other object which is not really required to be executed. Normally we use custom setting like below    Boolean ischecked = customsettingname__c.getInstance('RecordName').IsChecked__c ; If we wont insert record name as "RecordName" in the custom setting customsettingname__c in test class , then we will come across this issue   F IELD_CUSTOM_VALIDATION_EXCEPTION, Attempt to de-reference a null object: []" To avoid such issue we ...

I think we must have faced difficulty to create portal user in apex class.  Below are the errors we might have faced.  System.SObjectException: Field is not writeable: User.IsPortalEnabled  System.SObjectException: Field is not writeable: User.Contact  This post is just to tell how to create portal user. We already know that first we need to create Contact and Account , ensure the Account is a partner account, then create a user that points to the contact. Still same error will come.  Solution- To make a partner portal account, we need to ensure the account's owner has the correct values in the UserRoleId and ProfileId fields. To make a partner user, any user is ok. Simply ensure the user's profile is a Portal User profile. Then you can specify a value for its ContactId field. Below is the code  //Create portal account owner UserRole portalRole = [Select Id From UserRole Where PortalType = 'None' Limit 1]; Profile pro...

We may need to split a string into multiple parts from common characters to store it in a set which can be used later for comparison.  I came across one scenario  like ,I was getting some string which was containing three parts separated by ":"  and I had to compare with custom settings record, I was not sure which part of the string will be match with custom settings record. So I split the string and stored in the set. Below is some sample code:- String s = ' Another Person : ChildLine Volunteer Administrator : None '; String s2; set<String> set_string = new set<String>(); while(s.contains(':')){ s2 = s.substring(0,s.indexof(':')+1); set_string.add(s2.substring(0,s2.length()-1)); s = s.remove(s2); } set_string.add(s); System.debug('Printing---set_string '+set_string); Keep learning and sharing...

This might be very simple, Even I was also thinking as the method name is "containskey" then it should return true if partial matches, unfortunately it is not like that. "Containskey" method will return true only if key is exact match. It is also case sensitive. Below is some code snippet map<string,string> test = new map<string,string>(); test.put('abc123','GM'); system.debug('Exact matches -abc123 -'+test.ContainsKey('abc123'));---- True system.debug('Partial matches-123--'+test.ContainsKey('123')); --- False system.debug('Partial matches-abc--'+test.ContainsKey('abc')); --- False system.debug('Case sensitive matches-ABC123-- '+test.ContainsKey('ABC123')); --- False

As we already know map will be very useful while writing code. How will we create map<Id,Account> ? Usually we will do using put method of map map<Id,Account> map_Account = new map<Id,Account>(); for(Account acc:[Select id,name from account]){     map_Account.put(acc.id,acc); }  Instead of iteration we also can do other way for batter performance. map<id,Account> account_map = new map<Id,Account>([select id,name from account]); system.debug('printing-----'+account_map ); Now lets go for little advance, instead of static query what if want to use dynamic query like below map<id,Account> account_map = new map<Id,Account>(database.query(sQuerry)); system.debug('printing-----'+account_map ); we will get an error message like " COMPILE ERROR: Invalid initial type List<SObject> for Map<Id,Account>" To address above error we can use like  map<id,sObject> account_map = new map<...

Below is code to show    <apex:outputPanel id="msgBelowHeader" Styleclass="container_12 clearfix" rendered="{!isPreDistributorVisible}">                 <div style="padding-left: 50px;">                 <b>Your Preffered Distiributor is {!con.account.Preferred_Distributor__c} </b>                 <apex:outputPanel rendered="{!HelpInstructions !=null}">                 <span class="helpButton" id="example-_help">                 <img src="/s.gif" class="helpOrb" style="position: initial;"/>                             <script>sfdcPage.setHelp('example','{!HelpInstructions}');</script>               ...

In some scenario we have to decided approver as dynamically. Say who will be the first approver and who is the second.  In that case create create lookup field ( First_Approver__c,  Second_Approver__c )to user as approver and those field will be used on creating approval steps of approval process .  Aprroval process  Approval Steps  Now the question is how first_approval__c field will be populated ?  We need to populate those field as instantly I mean just before going to approval process. Approach - We created a custom button (Content source is java script) and from button code called a method which will update all the approvers and returns true for successful update, Then we are calling approval process. Class -  global class YourClass {  webservice static Boolean MethodForSettingApprover(Id recordId){        Boolean isUpdated = false;   try{ //Update the approv...