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how to find hard-coded urls in salesforce

by Miss Josefina Larkin Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Select all hard-coded URLs by clicking the select box in the header. Or, pick which URLs to move by selecting individual rows. You can always move the rest later. Click Update Selected URLs.

To Find: a) Leverage the Salesforce tool, Lightning Experience Readiness Check to uncover hard-coded references, which also helps you determine how ready you are for Lightning Experience. b) Search for hard-coded references with the Force.com IDE.

Full Answer

Did I Just See you “hardcode” a Salesforce ID?

Did I Just See You “Hardcode” a Salesforce ID? Aw, Hell No! Developers know that it is not a best practice to hardcode IDs in code, as documented in the Salesforce Developers site. It is a big pet peeve of mine when I see hardcoded IDs in formulas, validation rules, process builder, flow, etc.

Why do I have different versions of my hardcoded Salesforce Records?

You will need to update each reference of this hardcoded Salesforce record ID in every sandbox or production. As a result, you have different versions of your formula, validation rule. process builder or flow, etc. in your regions.

When to create Org wide custom settings for Salesforce ID references?

When you have several situations where you reference IDs in validation rules, formulas or process builder, then it makes sense for you to create an org wide custom settings to store all of your Salesforce ID references in one place. When would I not?

Is the Salesforce id self-describing?

The Salesforce ID is not self-describing. Where possible, rather than using the ID or hard coding text, reference the component by something that is the same in all sandboxes/Production and is less likely to change, such as the API or developer name.

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What are hard coded URLs?

a) A hard-coded reference is a URL that contains the instance name in the URL (e.g. na1.salesforce.com). Replace these hard-coded references with generic, non-instance specific or relative URLs (e.g. login.salesforce.com or . my.salesforce.com).

What is hardcoded in Salesforce?

Hard coding refers to the software development practice of embedding output or configuration data directly into the source code of a program. For example: The developer hard coded the error messages for the program.

How do I find the org domain URL in Salesforce?

Use System. Url. getOrgDomainUrl() to get domain URL using apex in Salesforce. Use getOrgDomainUrl() in orgs with or without My Domain to retrieve canonical URLs.

How do you avoid hardcoded values in Salesforce?

[i] - To avoid hard coding of values in Apex Classes you can make use of Custom Settings. Technically Custom Settings are very much alike to the Custom Objects. You can add Custom Fields to the Custom Setting but remember there is limitation on the type of fields that you can add.

What is an example of hard coding?

(1) A part of a program that has been declared as unchanging. For example, a constant is hard coded and remains the same throughout the execution of the program.

What are hard coded credentials?

Hard-coding credentials is the software development practice of embedding authentication data -- user IDs and passwords -- directly into the source code of a program or other executable object. This is as opposed to obtaining the credentials from external sources or generating them at runtime.

How do I find my custom domain in Salesforce?

You can go to https://status.salesforce.com/, where Salesforce has setup a lovely lookup for your domain. and enter what you have left into the lookup box, and click find. Viola!

What is domain URL in Salesforce?

What Is My Domain? Showcase your company's brand with your My Domain name. That My Domain name is used as your org-specific subdomain in Salesforce login and application URLs. For example, https://mycompany.my.salesforce.com and https://mycompany.my.site.com .

How do I get the URL for Apex in Salesforce?

LinkedGet the URL for digital experiences domain via APEX.Get the Salesforce Internal (non-Site) URL from a Site.Get all Community urls in Apex.Retrieve Force.com registered domain.B2B Lightning - Retrieve store URL from Product Id.How to avoid hardcoding the URL in Apex class.More items...•

What is hard coded data?

Hard coding (also hard-coding or hardcoding) is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to obtaining the data from external sources or generating it at runtime.

How do you stop hardcoding?

Best Practices to avoid hard coding in . NET1) Connection Strings. ... 2) Application Settings. ... 3) Resource/Regional content strings. ... 4) Maintain constant files/classes as required. ... 5) User Action Messages. ... 6) Use IoC and DI to resolve the object dependencies. ... 7) Avoid hiding html blocks using Css/Js.More items...•

What is soft coded?

Softcoding is the programming practice of obtaining values from external sources, such as preprocessor macros, external constants, databases, command line arguments and user input. The term is the opposite of "hardcoding," or putting values directly in the source code, unable to be changed by users.

Why avoid hardcoding Salesforce IDs?

The reason why you want to avoid hardcoding Salesforce IDs is that when the new record that your configuration item is referencing is created in a sandbox, and then created in every sandbox leading up and including Production, that new record’s Salesforce ID will not be the same.

What is custom metadata type?

If you need to reference IDs in flow, you want to use custom metadata type, which is a step up from custom setting. Custom metadata type data records are metadata type, which means they do not get deleted with sandbox refreshes or new sandboxes. You can deploy the data using custom metadata type in changesets.

What is custom label?

Custom labels are custom text values that can be accessed from Apex classes, Visualforce pages, or Lightning components. However, custom labels can also be used formula fields, validation rules, processes and flows. Think of a custom field is just a custom text field that isn’t object specific.

Option 2: WebDAV option

Use the WebDAV plugin and mount the WebDAV location locally, then run a script that uses sed to replace all of the Old Base URLs. This option creates a new page version for all pages that are changed (this includes any page versions that are crawled and edited).

Option 3: Confluence Source Editor option

You can use the Confluence Source Editor app to modify content on a page-by-page basis.

Option 4: Database query

Confluence stores page content in plain text, on the 'BODYCONTENT' table. It's also possible to replace these links by replacing text on this table, with the following queries:

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