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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>

), […]

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) […]

Activity Type Field – Do Not Use

March 21, 2011 by David Schach Leave a Comment

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

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

1	isApexTest

, running certain code if this is true or false. I used to do something […]

PageReference Best Practice

Chatter BINGO Released Into The Wild

Activity Type Field – Do Not Use

Visualforce Inline Editing – I’m In Love

System Replacement For isTest Apex Method

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