Sunday, January 26, 2025

Salesforce Tricks : Add line break to Tool tips or field-level help in Lightning Experience.

 A tool tip of a field can be difficult to read when there is no line break.

In formula , we can use "BR()" , but in tool tip, there is no formal method
The idea is still in Idea Exchange .

And a user posted a workaround here , using the "Japanese full width space" (\u3000).

Copy this :   [          ]

And put above bracket into the Help text where you need the line break. 


For example:
My line 1 
[          ] My line 2


Magic is done.


Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Great free tools for System Integration : Inspecting the HTTP-based request for API testing 免費好用的API測試工具

In order to setup a  HTTP-based API successfully, it is necessary to check request and response.

Postman is a great tool to check the response, how about the request ?

It can be trouble that if we cannot access a 3rd party system's request log while we have to send request to them . How can we verify the request we made is valid ? If the request will be altered by some middleware we may not able to touch ?

Here is one of the solution , make a mock server to capture the final request to the endpoint.
In past , it may takes time to setup a mock server , now , it becomes super easy. 

The great tool here is beeceptor !!! No registration needed , no installation needed.
Just need one browser tab ~

Steps as simple as below :

  1. Create an endpoint at https://beeceptor.com/ and leave this browser tab open.
    The endpoint will be like : 
    https://{your_input_name}.free.beeceptor.com 



  2. Change the endpoint used in code to the endpoint you just created .
  3. Execute the request in code from your IDE or other place , just execute your callout code.
  4. Refresh your https://beeceptor.com/ browser tab .
  5. Now you can check the request and header you just send, and you may create any response in the mock server .


Is is simple and easy , recommended by many platform like Salesforce.
Reference : 
https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000384720&type=1

Thanks for reading.





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