Turning Off "Use Partitioned Domains" for the Data Integration Specialist Superbadge

As part of my “quest” for All Star Ranger status in Trailhead I was completing the Data Integration Specialist Superbadge recently. Nothing in the badge is particularly challenging but I did hit one slightly frustrating point that I thought would be worth pointing out. I’m not going to offer any solutions to the challenges in the Superbadge itself so if you’re looking for solutions this is not the blog for you!

The superbadge calls out that you (may) need to make a change to your org setup as shown below.

If you are like me you probably skip most of the setup text in Superbadges and jump straight to the challenges to see what you actually need to do. I don’t see a lot of value in the positioning story - it adds nothing to the challenge. So I missed this.

If you miss this you’ll be able to complete the first few challenges and will suddenly hit a wall where the test just fails. And then you’ll go back up and see this note. If this happens don’t do what I did and just rush into making the change in your org. If you do this you’ll not only disconnect the org from Trailhead but you’ll not be able to log back into it and you’ll have to create a new org and start again from the start. Annoying!

Turning off “Use partitioned domains” changes the domain. This will disconnect the org from Trailhead. So before you turn off and deploy the changes make sure you have the username and password for your org. You can then reconnect it to Trailhead and continue with the superbadge.

Good luck on the trail!