Welcome to the Custom Metadata party with Vladimir Gerasimov

Published: April 23, 2018, 6 p.m.

Have you joined the Custom Metadata Type party yet? Join us with Salesforce Product Manager Vladimir Gerasimov as we discuss what Custom Metadata Types are and how Salesforce Admins can use them.

We also share a horrible joke from Daniel Sieff, make an exciting announcement about Midwest Dreamin 2018, and wonder why our intern this episode hasn't brought us our drinks (Kristin Cecil).

Show Overview
00:00 Mark accidentally destroys the world
01:58 Intro Music
02:20 Horrible joke from Daniel Sieff https://twitter.com/sirsieff/status/966838899879436293
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05:00 Introducing Vladimir Gerasimov https://twitter.com/vladimge Product Manager Custom Metdatypes
06:30 What is a custom Metadata types. Brian & Mark are late to the party
09:50 Custom Metadata Types for Admins
12:20 Custom Settings vs Custom Metadata types
15:30 Some short comings of Custom Metadata Types
19:06 Formula Fields & Default Values (Safe Harbor) maybe Winter '19
19:50 Custom Metadata Types for Admins - Use Cases
22:00 Multi-currency in Custom Metadata Types
25:00 Custom Metadata Types in Flow. Shout out to Jenn W Lee https://twitter.com/jenwlee Jenn W Lee Blog
27:00 Admin Friendly Development with Custom Metadata Types 29:50 Cheating in Apex Unit Tests
31:40 Should an Admin of a Mature Org, spend the resources to update to Custom Metadata Types
34:20 Other Resources: TrailheadX, future blog posts
36:20 Global Picklists
38:00 Unrestricted Picklist Values
39:30 Find me a Dreamforce and we'll make someone cry
41:00 Vladimir's elevator pitch to Parker Harris
44:32 thanks to Vladimir for being an engaged product manager at Salesforce
46:00 Hypothetically, how would one bribe Vladimir? Show him the impacts, data as a bribe... plus cavair
49:19 Exciting Announcement: MidWest Dreamin' 2018: Know the Flow Code.
50:10 Closing Credits with Kristin Cecil https://twitter.com/kececil
51:33 Closing Music
52:13 Post credit commentary


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