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Visualforce Inline Editing – I’m In Love

February 28, 2011 by David Schach 4 Comments

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 […]

System Replacement For isTest Apex Method

February 23, 2011 by David Schach 1 Comment

Sometimes we have to write code that executes differently if the Apex is being tested. For a great example, check out Scott Hemmeter's blog post on testing webservice callouts at http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2009/05/01/testing-http-callouts/. Scott's example works well, and he uses a Boolean isApexTest, running certain code if this is true or false. I used to do something […]

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 […]

Computer Associates Plans To Release Agile Development Tool On Force.com Platform

November 19, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

Today, at Dreamforce 2009, Computer Associates plans to release CA Agile Planner (http://www.ca.com/agile), a tool to manage agile development teams.

New Developer Library Released

November 19, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

Today, Developer Force (http://developer.force.com) released its new library. Here are a few of them. All can be found at http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Documentation. Workbook http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/workbook/index.htm Fundamentals http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/fundamentals/index.htm Cookbook http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/cookbook/index.htm Apex Advanced Code Example http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_shopping_cart_example.htm https://sites.secure.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000001saDCEAY And many more to come!

A Mention in the Developers Challenge

October 2, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

The salesforce.com Developer Force Challenge has concluded, and the team of Force Squared and The Enforcer won a mention! Our Daily Shinro site was listed “for sheer exuberance!” I’m really proud of the site, though the lion’s share of the kudos go to John for the concept and site design. I just coded whatever he […]

Show Current Year Using Only Visualforce

August 17, 2009 by David Schach 1 Comment

While perusing some websites, looking at html code, I saw something interesting: A company had used Javascript to update the copyright date of its website using Javascript. This is the code. Of course, as a Force.com developer, I prefer to use Visualforce and Apex over Javascript (as it makes the client thinner - thick clients […]

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:

Email Inbox Version 2

July 15, 2009 by David Schach 1 Comment

Well, it took about ten minutes from the release of Email Inbox Version 1 for people to request additional features, screenshots, etc. Version 2 includes some neat icons, and this post has the multiple-times-requested screenshots we promised. First, a teaser screenshot. (There's a better one below the code.) Here's the updated Visualforce code: The Apex […]

Visualforce Email Inbox

July 14, 2009 by David Schach 4 Comments

Sonny Cloward, SysAd at Rainforest Alliance, approached us about writing a Visualforce page to display all incoming emails for a given Case Queue. This led to quite a few interesting discoveries. Here's how we handled the project: