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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
New Developer Library Released
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!
Show Current Year Using Only Visualforce
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
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
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
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:
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