Essays and ephemera
Are you planning on taking a nap and do you have a preschooler in your house? If so, here are the top five reasons that you should not have Doc McStuffins on in the background to placate your preschooler while you try to get some shuteye.
Continue reading “Top 5 Reasons To Not Have Doc McStuffins on While Trying to Take a Nap”I had some time recently to update my record renamer flow, and wanted to document the changes in this post. Highlights of V2 include that it’s now a screen flow which resides on an app page, I removed the custom formula fields from the opportunities, and I added some conditionality in regards to which records the flow works on.
This post details the major changes, and how and where to implement them.
Continue reading “Record Renamer 2.0”When I think of drudgery, I think of this classic bit from “Mr. Show.”
If you’re too lazy to watch the clip, basically if mustard and mayonnaise were in the same jar you’d save up to five minutes on your life over 30 years. That’s great ROI!
Renaming records is a chore. What if there was a way you could easily and rapidly rename your records in Salesforce? That’s right, there is a better way. Introducing Erik’s Rapid Record Renamer Flow™️. In this blog I’ll walk through this flow which rapidly renames an account and all the opportunities associated to an account. By taking the concepts here, you can apply them to any object in Salesforce.
When it is finished, it’ll look like this for the user:
All opportunities will be renamed in a consistent naming convention.
And the flow will look like this on the backend. Nowhere near as complex as my last post.
I have some grander ambitions for this flow, but this is V1.
Let’s begin.
Continue reading “How to Rapidly Rename Records in Salesforce with Flow”I began 2020 thinking I was going to get back into FOIA requests. When the pandemic hit, that took a backseat as I became more concerned with me and my family’s well being – both mental and physical. My free time went into bingeing tv shows, playing my Switch, and starting to play guitar again.
However, I still did a few requests throughout the year. I concluded 2020 by asking some state and local organizations for copies of their internal newsletters.
Usually internal newsletters are a treasure trove of information: recipes, redacted birthdays, retirements, and book club announcements. This year the newsletters were spartan. I did find it interesting that there was not a single redaction in all of the records I obtained.
Continue reading “2020 Was a Slow Year for Government Newsletters”
Arguably the best 21 minutes of comedy in the last two decades is the Rick James episode of Chappelle’s Show. I’m not going to quote it here because this is a PG-13 blog, but it’s a masterpiece. If you haven’t watched it in a while, go and watch it again because it holds up well after all these years.
Continue reading “How Chappelle’s Show Influenced My Demos”