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There are a number of use cases where a Salesforce Admin or Developer may want to handle File upload events using Salesforce Flow Builder. Example use cases include:
iDialogue raises CONTENT_VERSION_INSERT and CONTENT_VERSION_UPDATE platform events for these types of use cases (note: as of Winter '23, "Record-Triggered Flows" did not support ContentVersion object types. This platform event approach provides an equivalent alternative). Implement this solution in 4-steps: 1. Begin by creating a new Flow of type "Platform Event-Triggered Flow".  2. Select the "iDialogue Event" type.  3. Add conditional branch decisions to check for ContentVersion Insert and Update events. $Record> Event Type = CONTENT_VERSION_INSERT $Record> Event Type = CONTENT_VERSION_UPDATE  4. Finally, add any custom flow handlers to process the ContentVersion insert or update events, such as making callouts to the iDialogue Content Intelligence API for file processing. Note: that these platform events are always raised in an AFTER trigger context. 
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I watched Marc's recent appearance on CNBC with great interest where he addressed the market's near-term volatility (YouTube link). "I’m mentoring these CEOs and I’m telling them there’s things they must do right now. Number one, they must move to long-term contracts…. secure the relationships with your customers. Don’t allow this kind of short-term volatility to effect your revenue or cash flow." - Marc Benioff  This is precisely the buyer experience iDialogue enables, the ability to generate multi-quotes from a single opportunity and give the buyer a rich, personalized experience to review their options and quickly commit to a long-term contract.  "A great Buyer Experience starts with a great Employee Experience." From a Salesforce opportunity, a Sales Rep can quickly configure a multi-quote room with options for 1, 2, or 3 year contracts. A personalized quote room link is shared with the buyer (via iDialogue enhanced quote emails) where the buyer can review contract options, pricing calculators, and product brochures.  For any CEOs, Revenue Ops, or Sales Executives looking for a pre-built playbook for long-term contracts, please feel free to contact me anytime mike@idialogue.app.
A headless content management system, or sometimes called an "API First" CMS, decouples the front end clients, aka “heads”, from the backend “body”. This is in contrast to Web 1.0 content management systems that were more monolithic and primarily evolved from desktop website content only. Examples of how this technical architecture delivers business value:
 The iDialogue API is an example of a headless CMS that primarily uses Salesforce as the backend, plus connects with other best-of-breed web services.
Example of front-end apps using the iDialogue API:
All of the above front ends are centrally supported through a single API. The iDialogue API also proxies access to various back ends:
iDialogue broadly defines "content" as any customer-facing digital asset, including:
You've configured a perfect Quote/Opportunity in Salesforce and it's approved for delivery. Congratulations! So what is the next step? Sending a quote as an email attachment is a common practice, but raises many questions.
Using Salesforce email templates with iDialogue extensions offers a better solution for quote delivery.
The ROI is tangible and very real:
 Example of product bundle configurator included in iDialogue package, based on Unofficial SF flow components. “The ability to provide spreadsheet-like functionality in Salesforce flows, plus integrate the components with iDialogue’s digital experience actions and platform events, enables Salesforce Users to easily interact with their customers” said Mr. Leach.
As Unofficial SF goes through packaging and versioning changes, iDialogue will maintain compatibility with key Unofficial SF components so that Flow Developers receive seamless, periodic component updates without the overhead of managing multiple packages, or keeping up with open source library updates. In the spirit of open source, iDialogue will submit pull requests and enhancements to the UnofficialSF Github repository to ensure its long-term success, plus provide Flow training to iDialogue Admins and Developers. Resources: https://unofficialsf.com/ Unofficial SF Github Repository https://github.com/alexed1/LightningFlowComponents Eric Smith's Blog https://ericsplayground.wordpress.com/author/ericsplayground Many blind people use screen readers to access web content. For Sales Enablement content creators, it is essential to understand how blind people use the web, and how to create Sales and Customer Experiences that are both operable and understandable by people who are blind [1]. Salesforce maintains Section 508 conformance for internal Sales reps. External customer-facing experiences must similarly be accessible for balanced, 2-way online "dialogues" with customers. As customer experiences get increasingly interactive, it's important that they do not sacrifice basic accessibility for trendy features. We recently submitted iDialogue Customer Experience (CX) rooms to several site checker and accessibility audit sites. And to be honest, I was bracing for the worst given the level of pre-built interactive screen elements. The good news is that our accessibility scores all passed (95/100 from accessibilitychecker.org [2]), but there is still some work to do. The functional elements of a B2B Sales customer experience, such as accessing documents and quotes, filling out forms, and submitting payment methods, are all passing. While iDialogue Room Builders can reliably build compliant and accessible rooms today, we've updated our 2022 product roadmap to reaffirm our commitment to section 508 conformance, and to be transparent in our progress towards achieving near perfect accessibility scores.   References
[1] https://equalizedigital.com/website-accessibility-blind/ [2] https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/ Generally speaking, a career in the Salesforce ecosystem does not require coding skills. A core principal of the platform is based upon no-code / low-code / declarative configuration. Agile companies want to move fast and respond to change, and the ability to point-and-click when making changes gives companies a competitive advantage when using declarative tools and processes. Companies prefer to hire people with business domain knowledge that can quickly convert business requirements into cloud-hosted solutions that scale ubiquitously. Writing code, developing unit tests, and managing multiple sandbox / dev environments slows the business down and increases operational costs. However, thinking like a coder in Flow Builder will increasingly become an in-demand skill and increase demand for your skills, while making your organization even more agile (more on this below).
When flows are utilized in iDialogue implementations, I'd speculate about 50% of the configuration was anticipated using pre-developed template flows included in our managed package.
Even distinctions like SMB vs Enterprise, or annual revenue are no longer absolute criteria for when Developers are required. It's not uncommon for startups to evolve into $100M+ companies using an entirely declarative approach to Sales and Enablement. This is in stark contrast to when I first entered the Salesforce ecosystem around 2006, and pretty much every custom business rule required an Apex trigger. But today, as I write this in 2022, the combination of Lightning page builder and Flow Builder, plus our own Document and Room Builder tools now provide Admins and Ops with 100% declarative configuration environments to build end-to-end Sales processes and apps. While coding is no longer required, I will say the ability to think like a coder when using Flow Builder will increasingly come into demand. Flow Builder has achieved 4GL status in recent releases; and as such, implements basic programming concepts like variables, collections, conditional branching, looping, and assignments; much like you'd find in many programming languages. The ability to name things correctly, refactor larger flows into smaller sub-flows, test, and manage version control processes are necessary skills when building Flows. However, a new ecosystem is evolving that provides pre-built essential flows, allowing Admins and Ops to simply configure last mile details. So ultimately, knowing the inner workings of flows is useful, but not required. Going forward, our measurement for success will always be to enable declarative configuration for all features. And as we grow and learn from our customers, we'll continue to evolve iDialogue in ways that increasingly offer sophisticated Sales Enablement, Content Management, and Customer Experience features without the need to learn or know code.
Is your Marketing department involved in Salesforce Opportunity page layout decisions?
Sales Reps spend up to 400 hours per year searching for deal-specific Marketing materials. Lightning page layouts allow for cross-functional alignment across Sales and Marketing to ensure customer-facing conversations and quotes carry their intended messaging. Marketers are skilled at pixel-perfect user interface design decisions, copywriting, audience targeting, and messaging. So why wouldn't you leverage their experience and bring their skill set to Opportunity page layout decisions and enablement rules? Benefits to adding Marketing content to page layouts:
Congratulations Salesforce Nonprofit System Administrators on completing another year! Now that the focus is on generating end-of-year donation letters, here's a list of some innovative solutions implemented by Sys Admins working with Salesforce NPSP and iDialogue. We're constantly amazed at the creativity and ingenuity of Sys Admins and Developers at Nonprofits. Tip 1: Create a Variety of Donation Letter Templates  Daniela Cruz, Administrative Program Assistant at Reading Power Inc., has accumulated several personalized donation letter templates, one for each Donation type, that she can generate, print, or email with just one-click. Daniela's screen flows also auto-update Acknowledgement Status and Date fields on Opportunity records.  Tip 2: Personalize Donation Acknowledgement Letters Utilize NPSP fields, like Formal Greeting and Informal greeting in letter templates. Add a signature image of the Nonprofits CEO, Founder, or Director. 4 Word doc donation letter templates are included in the iDialogue NPSP accelerator package, with pre-defined merge tags.  Tip 3: Create Separate Donation Letter Batches for Print and Email
 Tip 4: Generate Envelope Labels From Salesforce
Tip 5: Generate Letters From Custom Objects
One of many pre-built iDialogue screen flows included in the NPSP Accelerator package.  We take the security of iDialogue very seriously and actively monitor broader Internet security trends and bulletins.
For those with questions related to the log4j vulnerability,this post provides some details on proactive and preventative measures taken to ensure the security of iDialogue hosted data and documents. Our hosting provider, AWS, has assured us our Java 11 hosted containers were not exposed to this vulnerability, and that they've taken the following additional preventative measures: AWS Lambda does not include the Log4j2 utility in the Lambda Java managed runtimes (Java 8, Java 8 on AL2, and Java 11) or corresponding base container images. Functions that do not include impacted versions of Log4j2 within their code are therefore not affected by the issue described in CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. We have applied a change to the Lambda Java managed runtimes and base container images (Java 8, Java 8 on AL2, and Java 11) that disables remote class loading by the RMI Registry or COS Naming service provider. This change helps to mitigate the issues in CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 for Lambda functions that package the impacted versions of Log4j2. Customers using managed runtimes benefit from this change automatically. iDialogue has one transitive dependency on Log4J via our use of the Twilio Java SDK for sending SMS messages for two-factor authentication to rooms. In addition to upgrading this dependency to Log4J v2.17.0, we’ve also verified the utilization of the SDK does not log customer provided events. |
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