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I spent two weeks writing a WordPress plugin to take some form data, process it through another website, and take the result to Salesforce. the client had a "Salesforce specialist" doing everything on the Salesforce side and refused to give me access to see if the data was properly pushed through.

Finally I got it in working condition when suddenly it stopped working, I hadn't changed anything since it worked so I asked if he could have possibly changed something. We argued for over 4 hours about who changed something, the whole time I was looking for the error in my code. At 6pm I finally told him I would need to take a look at it tomorrow.

Overnight he sent me an email:
"Hey, sorry about the confusion yesterday, I set Salesforce to deny duplicate email entries, looks like once I removed that everything is working."

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  • 0
    Welcome to devRant! Sorry you had to go through all that aggravation. At least you know it was not your fault. Congrats on the plugin!
  • 0
    Built something similar with salesforce but with triggered sends...and man, that was a frustrating experience. I feel you 👊
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    you can get a salesforce developer account pretty easy for free btw if you want to test yourself next time
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    At least the Salesforce dev had the integrity to email you. S/he could have just "fixed" it without saying anything, and boom, it works, and you're left wondering.
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    @lemonthinking I was unaware of this, but will definitely keep it in mind for the future. Probably not the last of seen of Salesforce in this position.
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    @sylar182 https://trailhead.salesforce.com/ has lots of tutorials, but yeah i have about 3 salesforce dev accounts for testing different things. i think its ever growing popularity make it a good thing to know about because you should be able to suggest some form of integration in most companies. also if you're frontend then i recommend checking out lightning development for salesforce
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