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Next Birthday Formula

July 6, 2011 by David Schach 4 Comments

How would you display your Contacts with upcoming birthdays? I’ve seen people use “Birthdays This Week,” “Birthdays This and Next Week,” and other reports to display the list. I’ve also seen requirements for showing a person’s next birthday, to trigger an automatic email to each Contact on his/her birthday. Let’s see how it’s done: [sourcecode […]

PageReference Best Practice

May 5, 2011 by David Schach 2 Comments

I've seen a lot of coders put the following into their custom Visualforce controllers:

public PageReference customsave() {
    try{ 
        insert acct; 
    } catch (DMLException e) { 
        /*do stuff here*/ 
    }
    PageReference acctPage = new PageReference ('/' + acct.id};
    acctPage.setRedirect(true);
    return acctPage;
}

public PageReference customsave() {

try{

insert acct;

} catch (DMLException e) {

/*do stuff here*/

}

PageReference acctPage = new PageReference ('/' + acct.id};

acctPage.setRedirect(true);

return acctPage;

}

I've decided that I don't like this approach. It feels too much like a URL hack, and though I'm sure that it will always work (meaning that salesforce.com will never change its way of referring to a record by

/&lt;recordID&gt;

1	/<recordID>

), […]

Content Latest Version Flag

May 4, 2011 by David Schach 2 Comments

Yesterday, I used Content Delivery to send a pdf to a client. Simple, right? Upload the Word document to Content, associate it with a record, and deliver the content. Surely if I upload a new version, the delivery will refer to the latest version, right? There’s no place to select that option, so I can […]

PersonAccount Stay-In-Touch Gotcha

March 28, 2011 by David Schach 2 Comments

I make no secret that I’m a fan of PersonAccounts. I think they’re very handy when working with individuals instead of companies, and I really like pairing them with the Relationship Groups app to make households. I’ve always considered them as mostly-contacts. I put all Person fields on the Contact object, reserving very few for […]

Chatter BINGO Released Into The Wild

March 25, 2011 by David Schach Leave a Comment

With Dreamforce 2010 behind us and Dreamforce 2011 fast approaching, the first ever crowdsourced conference application is publicly available! Chatter BINGO has been released as an unmanaged package, meaning that all the source code is open and ready for customizing to your hearts’ content. Chatter BINGO was conceived by Chris Shackelford and Brad Gross (@imperialstout) […]

Next Birthday Formula

PageReference Best Practice

Content Latest Version Flag

PersonAccount Stay-In-Touch Gotcha

Chatter BINGO Released Into The Wild

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