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New Blackberry and iPhone Wallpaper

August 1, 2010 by David Schach 4 Comments

Last year, I published a wallpaper image for Blackberry, at a resolution of 320×240 (how quaint). Screen resolution has grown since then, as has salesforce.com and Salesforce CRM. This is a new wallpaper background using the latest branding, at 480×360. For those of you using retinal displays, here’s one for you: I expect to see […]

Chatter and the CLM

June 11, 2010 by David Schach 2 Comments

I love Chatter. I love the way that it is a game-changer. I think that Chatter is a powerful tool. But as Peter Parker's Uncle Ben said, "With great power comes great responsibility," and with the possibility of great rewards from Chatter comes great risks. First I'll list my conclusions, just so there's no misunderstanding. […]

I Found a Bug – And Salesforce Support Was Great

June 10, 2010 by David Schach 6 Comments

A week ago, I installed Scott Hemmeter’s amazing app, Geopointe. Everything was going smoothly until I decided to manage the licenses I had assigned to the app. I successfully managed the licenses and tried to click the “Back to Previous Page” link, but something broke: Here’s a video of the problem in action: Managing Licenses […]

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. Side note: If you […]

Extended NA1 Maintenance Next Weekend (3/20)

March 13, 2010 by David Schach Leave a Comment

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 […]

New Opportunity Page Layout – With Highlights Panel!

February 18, 2010 by David Schach 6 Comments

Yesterday, I enabled the new Opportunity page layout in my Developer Spring ’10 Preview org, and it took a few steps, so I thought I’d share them with you. Firstly, you’ll need to contact salesforce.com to get this feature enabled. Then be patient. It takes a minute or two for the update to propagate. Clearly, […]

Get Documents and Attachments out of Salesforce

February 8, 2010 by David Schach Leave a Comment

As Content will be included in all Salesforce licenses (for completeness, I'll add 'to some degree') with the Spring '10 release, orgs will be faced with the daunting prospect of getting their documents and attachments out of Salesforce and into Content. I had this problem when Content was first released and I was asked to […]

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!

Dreamforce Keynote – Chatter and the Platform

November 18, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

There is no way to write one post to cover everything, so I want to address one thing that some people may not have noticed: Salesforce Chatter is being pushed as a platform layer. Looking at the “chiclet” slide that Marc Benioff unveiled, let’s start with the “old” slide: Yes, this is not the exact […]