Why Lightning Web Components Are the Future of Custom Screens in Salesforce Field Service
Salesforce Field Service (FSL) has rapidly evolved into a lightning‑first, mobile‑first platform. As organizations modernize their field operations—whether managing utility inspections, power line maintenance, or large‑scale asset servicing—the architecture choices behind custom screens become critically important. For many years, Apex + Visualforce (VF) was the default approach for building custom UI in Salesforce. However, with […]
Apex Governor Limits in the Real World: Field Service for a Plumbing Business
Writer saw this post on LinkedIn by Roshan Something and decided to write blog post article regards to How to keep Work Orders, Service Appointments, and van‑stock flows fast, reliable, and limit‑safe—with practical Apex patterns and examples. Why Governor Limits Matter (Especially in Field Service) Salesforce runs on multi‑tenant infrastructure, so every line of code […]
Migrating from ClickSoftware to Salesforce Field Service: A Developer’s View
Having worked hands-on with ClickSoftware 8.x, migrating to Salesforce Field Service (SFS) is not a lift-and-shift exercise—it’s a fundamental re-architecture. ClickSoftware was extremely powerful, but that power lived in deeply customized rules, policies, and extensions that tightly controlled scheduling and dispatching. With Click 8.x reaching end-of-life (around 2023–2024), developers are forced to confront technical debt […]
Async Apex in the Real World: Lessons from a Salesforce Field Service Waste Collection Implementation
When building Salesforce Field Service for a local council’s waste‑collection operations, asynchronous Apex stops being an academic topic and starts becoming a daily architectural concern. On paper, async rules are easy to remember: @future can’t call @future Async can’t start async @future accepts only primitives Queueable Apex is more powerful But once we implemented a […]
