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Mass deleting picklist values in Salesforce with AJAX javascript hack (2018 version)

More than 5 years ago I wrote an article on how to Mass delete Picklist values in Salesforce, this is still my most visited article and I have been meaning to get back to it for years. At least now it seems like it will be a part of the standard functionality sometime in the near future (mass delete picklist values (setup)) but today I had to do this at a customer so I had to solve it once again.

Visualise Big Object data in a Lightning Component

Good evening, In my previous post (Upgrade your Electric Imp IoT Trailhead Project to use Big Objects ) I showed how you can use Big Objects to archive data and now I will show how you can visualise the data in a Lightning Component. So now we have big objects being created but the only way to see them is by executing a SOQL query in the Developer Console (SELECT DeviceId__c, Temperature__c, Humidity__c, ts__c FROM Fridge_Reading_History__b).

Mass deleting picklist values in Salesforce with AJAX javascript hack

I have written an updated version of this post Mass deleting picklist values in Salesforce with AJAX javascript hack (2018 version) Today I was gonna do a small change in our Salesforce instance, namely replacing to 1100+ picklists with brand new values. Last time I did this I used Eclipse and just saved the file (Lead.object for example). But I realized that only new values are added and old ones are not removed and as usual there are number of requests on success.salesforce.com for this feature but it is not implemented yet.