TL;DR: Check out code to enrich DuplicateRecordItem records and to handle extra DuplicateRecordSet records after merging duplicates at https://github.com/dschach/duplicatehandling I love the standard Salesforce duplicate records feature (Trailhead: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/sales_admin_duplicate_management H&T: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.managing_duplicates_overview.htm) and have used it extensively, both to prevent duplicates and to track/report on duplicates for later management. If your org is set to allow […]
Lightning Component With Running User Information
Last week, at Snowforce in Salt Lake City, I saw a demonstration of the Lightning App Builder and decided that I wanted to make a Lightning component of my own. I thought the best thing to do was to follow the quick-start PDF, and was quite proud of that. I made the text say "Hello […]
ChatterBINGO is Now Open-Source
At Dreamforce 2010, I had the honor of writing the only (to date) community-contributed app to the Dreamforce org: Chatter BINGO.
It has been in an AppExchange listing for a while, in an unmanaged package, but I decided to open it up on GitHub to see if anyone wants to make updates/improvements.
Chatter Publisher Actions (Part 2): Object Custom Action
In the previous post, we looked at using the standard (button-click) way to create a new child record using Publisher Actions. Pretty basic stuff. Using Visualforce to create a custom action is a bit harder. Let's start with the documentation. The PDF provided by clicking on the link in the Actions screen (Account action is […]
Create and Populate a Map Without Loops
There are many reasons to use Maps in Apex triggers. Sometimes I want to make a List of Contacts, but I want to pull each one by its ID. This is a good reason to abandon the List and to make a Map<Id, Contact>. (Some will prefer to use Map<String, Contact>, and that is okay […]
Workflow ISCHANGED() translated to Apex trigger
Workflow is great. I can simply and declaratively make changes, and can easily update things like email templates, criteria, tasks, etc. without using Eclipse and writing/running unit tests.Sometimes, however, workflow isn’t enough; we need to use a trigger. Today, I had a use-case that when a DateTime field is filled, a contact (identified via a […]
PageReference Best Practice
I've seen a lot of coders put the following into their custom Visualforce controllers: 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 /<recordID>), I'd […]
Chatter BINGO Released Into The Wild
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) […]
Activity Type Field – Do Not Use
The field Event.Type (which is sort of the same as Task.Type) is a difficult field to use. Here are a few reasons: Type cannot be the controlling field for a dependent picklist. On an Event list view (/007), even when specifying record type, the Type field cannot be edited. Salesforce requires you to select a […]
Visualforce Inline Editing – I’m In Love
I’m totally addicted to the new Visualforce inline editing feature. It all started with this post by Josh Birk at Developerforce. I liked it, but as a “standardstylesheets” specialist, I wanted a bit more. Then I looked at the Visualforce apex:inlineEditSupport documentation, and I was hooked. Okay, so you’re probably wondering why this is so […]
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