Making a Salesforce Opportunity leaderboard is possible, but I’ve seen some cases where the standard filters don’t work well enough. It is easy enough to make a report that shows “My Accounts,” “My Opportunities,” and others. Let’s look at some of the standard options: According to the documentation, My Opportunities – Searches ONLY the opportunities you […]
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 […]
Chatter Publisher Actions (Part 1): Create a Record
One of the most interesting – but least explained – features of Summer 13 (184) is Chatter Actions. There are three kinds of actions (Yes, you thought there were two, but there are more!) and after writing a few of each, here are some examples. The documentation is, as of this writing, both incomplete and […]
System Replacement For isTest Apex Method
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
, running certain code if this is true or false. I used to do something […]
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Extended NA1 Maintenance Next Weekend (3/20)
Next weekend, March 20, 2010, Salesforce NA1 will be down for an extended (8-hour) maintenance window - the longest in memory - from 7pm 3/20 to 3am 3/21 (All times PST). Overlapping this is another 8-hour window for NA0 (SSL) starting two hours earlier. Also starting at 7pm PST, EU0 (EMEA) will be down for […]