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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

1	mydate__c + 21

. Side note: If you try going […]

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.

Copyright &amp;amp;copy; 2005-&amp;lt;img src=&quot;data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7&quot; data-wp-preserve=&quot;%3Cscript%20type%3D%22text%2Fjavascript%22%3Edocument.write(new%20Date().getFullYear())%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E&quot; data-mce-resize=&quot;false&quot; data-mce-placeholder=&quot;1&quot; class=&quot;mce-object&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;20&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;amp;lt;script&amp;amp;gt;&quot; title=&quot;&amp;amp;lt;script&amp;amp;gt;&quot; /&amp;gt; This Company. All rights reserved.

Copyright &amp;copy; 2005-&lt;img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-wp-preserve="%3Cscript%20type%3D%22text%2Fjavascript%22%3Edocument.write(new%20Date().getFullYear())%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E" data-mce-resize="false" data-mce-placeholder="1" class="mce-object" width="20" height="20" alt="&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;" title="&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;" /&gt; This Company. All rights reserved.

Of course, as a Force.com developer, I prefer to use Visualforce and Apex over Javascript (as it makes the client thinner - thick […]

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

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

New Developer Library Released

A Mention in the Developers Challenge

Show Current Year Using Only Visualforce

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