☁️ Edition 71: Data Dictionary Benefits, Mental Health Findings & Page View Tracking via Flow

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5 Reasons Why You Need a Salesforce Data Dictionary
The challenges of overseeing data include fear of inaccuracies, data silos, compliance failures, and financial headaches. A data dictionary is essential for smoother workflows, faster delivery times, sales process streamlining, and minimizing system downtime. A Salesforce data dictionary ensures unified data classification, quality maintenance, compliance adherence, and improved reporting.

Mental Wellbeing Among Salesforce Professionals: The Findings
A survey about mental health was launched by the author, in conjunction with a talk at London's Calling. The survey revealed insights on best practices and how to improve, especially for the 36% who feel consulting has impacted their mental wellbeing. The author, a Salesforce Consultant, has found that skills from consulting are helpful in managing mental health. Sharing tips and experiences can support each other in facing challenges.

Using Flow for Page View Tracking
Invisible Screen Flow is a hidden type of flow on a page that collects information without being visible to the user. It can be used for actions based on page views, such as tracking. Build one for page view tracking.

How to Structure Your Record-Triggered Flow Strategy
A record-triggered flow in Salesforce automates actions based on record events, saving time and reducing errors. Having a Salesforce Flow Design Strategy is crucial for easy maintenance and troubleshooting. Best practices include creating a single Trigger or Process per object.

Salesforce Fact #780 | lightning map of selected record in screen flow datatable
We use mapMarkers in LWC to show the map for an address. We can render the address map for the address of a selected record in screen flow datatable using a LWC. In this example, we are rendering the map for the shipping address of the selected account record considering the ShippingLatitude and ShippingLongitude values.

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