Best Chrome Plugins for Salesforce Developers and Administrators

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There are tons of utilities that can make your life easier if you are developing or administrating Salesforce orgs: Desktop apps, Visual Studio Code plugins, Web apps… but today I want to focus on those plugins that you can use directly from Chrome. They are really quick to install and, once you start using them, you won’t know how to live without these plugins! For me, this is the list of best Chrome plugins for Salesforce so far.

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Dealing with Salesforce rowlocks

Salesforce is a multi-tenant environment, which means that resources are limited and we will need to design our products by taking care of the governor limits. However, sometimes we forget about other kind of restrictions that we have to keep in mind not only in Salesforce, but along other systems that work with databases.

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How to populate formula fields without inserting/updating a record in Salesforce Apex

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Formula fields are read-only fields that are defined by a calculated expression. It’s the most similar thing of an Excel formula that you can find in Salesforce and it doesn’t require strong knowledge to set one. As a read-only field, you cannot assign values to it. That should not be an issue in most of the times, but it could cause you problems when you want to test an apex piece of code.

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