How to install custom components in Salesforce Trailhead Playground Orgs

Salesforce Trailhead trainings are a great way to learn Salesforce, and you may have noticed that some of the hands-on challenges require installing components. If you’re using a Developer org to do this, the instructions are easy to follow. However, if you’re using a Trailhead Playground org, some components are kind of a pain to install. Salesforce thoughtfully provides instructions for how to do this in 11 steps, which I find a bit too time-consuming and confusing. I have found a slightly different approach that seems (at least to me) simpler, and I will leave it to you to decide which you prefer.

The instructions for installing the component (see screenshot below) will often be provided well before the challenge, and the trick is to avoid the frustration of trying to log in to a Playground org when prompted with the standard component installation URL.

Step 1

Decide for yourself whether you will read through the full lesson or skip right to the challenge. When you get to the challenge, open your Trailhead Playground org in a new window by right-clicking on the Launch button (see screenshot below).

Step 2

Log in to your Trailhead Playground org.

Step 3

Go back to the lesson screen and copy the component installation URL without the domain (for example, packaging/installPackage.apexp?p0=04tj0000001mMYP). This is the package path.

In some cases, the installation instructions will have a link without the URL on the page. In this case, right-click on the link and copy the target to get the URL, then paste it into a text editor to extract the portion following the domain.

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