Governor Limits · Salesforce Basic

Apex Class, Variables, Constructor & Methods in Salesforce.

If you know Java or Dotnet applications, then you may observe that everything is written as a class. There are different access levels. You can also define class within a class just like inner class and outer class etc.

Salesforce also provides similar syntax that is followed in Java. Syntax can be to defining a class or variables in class or a wrapper class everything is similar to the syntax followed in Java programming.

Let us see a class and things that can be done in a class in Salesforce.

public class A_Class_Name{ 

        // Variables
	public static string a_Variable {get;set;}

        // Constructor
	public A_Class_Name(){
	        // Constructor business logic code
        }

        // Methods 
        public void a_Method_Name(Integer a_Variable1, Ingeter a_Variable2){
	        // Business logic code
        }
}
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Salesforce Basic

Apex Programming Language in Salesforce

Every technology has some or other programming language. There are well know programming languages namely, C, C++, Java, DotNet, Python, Javascript and many more. Object Oriented Programming Language (OOPS) is a concept on which most of the languages work. Similarly, Salesforce has its own programming language and it is called Apex Programming language.

Apex Programming language

Apex Programming language is strongly typed and works on OOPS concept. It uses similar syntax that looks like Java and acts like database stored procedures. Apex enables developers to add business logic to most of the system events which include button click, page load, related record update etc.

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Salesforce Basic · Security Model

Apex Sharing Reason in Salesforce

When you want to share a record through apex sharing you can provide custom reason so that it will give a meaningful reason to why the record is shared with a specific user or group.

Custom sharing reason is only available for custom objects and you can set custom sharing reason in salesforce classic version only.

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Salesforce Admin · Salesforce Basic · Security Model

Apex Sharing in Salesforce

There will be some scenarios in organization where you want to share a record based on some complex scenario, but you cannot define the complex scenario as a criterion in sharing rule. Then the question is how you can share a record, of course you can share them manually. But how many times you can share records manually, trust me its annoying to share records manually again and again.

Salesforce provides another way to share a record and that is through apex code via share object. So what is Share object? Every standard and custom object will have a share object in salesforce with predefined fields as shown below.

  • Standard Object’s Share object will be “sObject+Share”. For example, Account objects Share Object is AccountShare. Similarly, Opportunity objects Share object will be OpportunityShare.
  • Custom Object’s Share object will be “CustomObjectName + __Share”. For example, if your custom object name is MyCustomObject, then its API name will be MyCustomObject__c and share object will be MyCustomObject__Share.
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Salesforce Admin · Salesforce Basic · Security Model

Sharing Rules in Salesforce

There will be some scenarios where all records are privately owned, you want to share records based on some criteria with a specific user or group of users or to specific role. In such cases sharing automation should work on all records of that object. You can build a sharing rule which will handle such situation.

Consider a scenario where records should be shared based on continent field and those records should be shared with people of specific group or role. You can simple create sharing rules for each continent and share according to business requirement.

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