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Sophisticated DateTime “Formula Fields” with Apex and Field-Level Security

May 17, 2010 by David Schach 3 Comments

What do you do when you want to calculate a formula-like field but a regular formula won't work? Salesforce CRM's formulas handle dates very well. If you want to enter a date value and have formula fields display, for instance, mydate__c + 21 days, that's simple. Just use mydate__c + 21. Side note: If you […]

Filed Under: Apex, Configuration, Development, Force.com Platform, Native Application, Salesforce CRM, salesforce.com, Tips and Tricks Tagged With: Apex, Eclipse IDE, Force.com Builder

Filed Under: Apex, Configuration, Development, Force.com Platform, Native Application, Salesforce CRM, salesforce.com, Tips and Tricks Tagged With: Apex, Eclipse IDE, Force.com Builder

Overload Apex Class to be Controller AND Extension

July 24, 2009 by David Schach 2 Comments

Coding the new premium version of Mass Update Contacts (details to come), I replaced the two parts of the page with Apex Components. This will allow the app to support custom address fields and international address formats. I didn't want to write one ControllerExtension for the main page, a CustomController for the view section component, and another CustomController for the pageblocktable component. So here is the overloaded class constructor. Note that this works because an extension passes the StandardController to the constructor, and a CustomController passes nothing:

Filed Under: Apex, Development, Visualforce, X-Squared On Demand Tagged With: Apex, Eclipse IDE, Force.com Platform, New Features, Projects, Visualforce

Filed Under: Apex, Development, Visualforce, X-Squared On Demand Tagged With: Apex, Eclipse IDE, Force.com Platform, New Features, Projects, Visualforce

Eclipse as a Password Manager

July 10, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

Recently, Judi Sohn wrote about a URL hack to save your Salesforce username and password (in an exposed, plaintext manner). This is a great way to save a lot of time logging into Salesforce. There is another way to save un/pw combinations: Use Eclipse to store the un/pw/securitytoken. Read more: http://www.x2od.com/?p=625&preview=true#ixzz0Kt2X1lQD&C

Filed Under: Development, salesforce.com Tagged With: Eclipse IDE

Filed Under: Development, salesforce.com Tagged With: Eclipse IDE

Pulling Code Out of Triggers

May 18, 2009 by David Schach 6 Comments

To date, triggers have only been accessible on each object's setup page, leading to a lot of hunting for code within the Salesforce CRM application. Even in Eclipse, switching between the Class and Trigger folders for a given project can be a pain. These pains can partially be alleviated by keeping all Apex code in one place--as Apex Classes. Read more: http://www.x2od.com/?p=583&preview=true#ixzz0FncHsqPw&B

Filed Under: Apex, Development, salesforce.com, Summer 09 Tagged With: Apex, Eclipse IDE, Force.com Platform

Filed Under: Apex, Development, salesforce.com, Summer 09 Tagged With: Apex, Eclipse IDE, Force.com Platform

Developer Preview Releases for the Google Visualization API

February 21, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

Google has invited developers to participate in Developer Preview Releases for the Visualization API

Filed Under: Development, Google, New Features, salesforce.com, Winter 09 Tagged With: Dreamforce, Eclipse IDE, Google, New Features

Filed Under: Development, Google, New Features, salesforce.com, Winter 09 Tagged With: Dreamforce, Eclipse IDE, Google, New Features

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