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 […]