Salesforce Open Source MVP's: How to use James Simone's Rollup Application
Welcome to the start of a brand new series of videos, Salesforce Open Source MVP's! In this series we highlight the incredible developers out in the Salesforce ecosystem creating excellent open source libraries for you to leverage for free! In this first episode we have James Simone show up how to use his newest open source project Rollup. Rollup allows you to calculate rollup summaries on basically any relationship type (even external ids) for free! Some additional info on James, below! James Simone is the author of the Joys Of Apex and the free DLRS-killer, Rollup. After 5+ years coding in the Salesforce ecosystem, he's now a Sr. Software Engineer at Salesforce itself, where he continues to publish Joys Of Apex articles and contribute within the Salesforce open source community. You can find his Joys Of Apex articles and more information on his sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Good Thing Never Stops" (on the cost of immortality) on his website: https://www.jamessimone.net/, and check out his open source contributions at https://www.github.com/jamessimone/ Rollup GitHub Repo: https://github.com/jamessimone/apex-r... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Salesforce consulting time with me here: https://calendly.com/codingwiththefor... Please consider donating to help continue to improve the content produced for Coding With The Force: https://www.paypal.com/donate?busines... Get Coding With The Force Merch Here: https://my-store-d20559.creator-sprin... Follow all of our social media here: Patreon: / codingwiththeforce Github: https://github.com/Coding-With-The-Force Facebook: / codingwiththeforce Twitter: / coding_force Instagram: / codingwiththeforce Salesforce development books I recommend: Advanced Apex Programming: https://amzn.to/3lXi8to Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture: https://amzn.to/2R0D4BQ Mastering Salesforce DevOps: https://amzn.to/3lTtTRN Apex Design Patterns Book: https://amzn.to/3DwqljP Good Non-SF Specific Development Books: Clean Code: https://amzn.to/35PuMDU Clean Architecture: https://amzn.to/35FYo6A Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Book: https://amzn.to/3LhvHBd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents: 0:00 - New Series Introduction 2:06 - Rollup Introduction 2:45 - Why was Rollup built? Why use Rollup? 6:43 - How to use Rollup in an Auto-launched flow 13:32 - How to use Rollup in a Record-Triggered flow 18:46 - How to use Rollup in an Apex Trigger 28:33 - Outro DISCLAIMER: The views and ideas expressed on this YouTube channel and blog are based on past development experiences and may not always work for your particular scenarios. The advice in these videos may also become outdated as technology advances. They should be used as examples for educational purposes only. Using any shown solutions in your own org is not advisable since they are example scenarios. #salesforce #salesforcedeveloper #salesforceadmin
