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Hacking a Case Comment Trigger

April 1, 2009 by David Schach 8 Comments

There has been some chatter about asking the salesforce.com team to include the CaseComment object in the “triggerable” list. After conferring with JP Seabury (ForceMonkey), we designed a Rube Goldberg-esque solution to the problem.

Filed Under: Apex, Configuration, Development Tagged With: Apex, Configuration, Force.com Builder, Force.com Platform

Flexible Field Labels

March 23, 2009 by David Schach Leave a Comment

While making a Visualforce page to display a Zip/Country -> City, State, County application, it became obvious that labeling fields manually will not satisfy all users, especially international ones. There are a few ways to include a field and its label on a Visualforce page. The simplest, using OutputField: VF Page (simple): The most common […]

Filed Under: Configuration, Native Application, Salesforce, Visualforce Tagged With: Configuration, Force.com Platform, Visualforce

The Ultimate Visualforce Events Tab – Almost

January 5, 2009 by David Schach 5 Comments

Check old blog posts, and you’ll see that I’ve been working on custom Events and Task tabs for a while now. A Task Visualforce tab (that mimics the Task box on the Home Page) is almost ready to come out, but the Events Enhanced List tab is (pretty much) here! This bears emphasizing: Enhanced Lists […]

Filed Under: Configuration, Salesforce, Visualforce, Winter 09 Tagged With: Apex, Force.com Builder, Force.com Platform, Salesforce, Visualforce

Force.com Sites Guest User Profile Permissions

December 22, 2008 by David Schach Leave a Comment

I’m working on an event registration application for the Sites Developer Challenge, and it involves a validation that the registrant’s email exists in a Contact record. Remembering that Steve Andersen had run into some obstacles with Contact.Email visibility, I decided to check the guest profile for Contact Field Level Security. Here’s what I found: If […]

Filed Under: Configuration, Development, Native Application, New Features, Winter 09 Tagged With: Configuration, Force.com Platform, Sites

Upcoming Plans

November 9, 2008 by David Schach 1 Comment

This blog post is partly an announcement of X-Squared’s upcoming plans and projects, and partly a way to hold myself to my list. It is said that while managing the Yankees, Joe Torre tried to quit many times, until someone bet him $1000 that he couldn’t quit… and told everyone he knew about the bet. Clearly, $1000 is small change to Torre, but the pressure of the whole world knowing his plan to quit helped him quite a bit. So here is X-Squared On Demand’s list of projects and plans (outside of the standard billing work for our amazing clients):

Filed Under: X-Squared On Demand Tagged With: Force.com Platform, New Developments, Visualforce, X-Squared On Demand

A Super Apex/Visualforce Blog

October 5, 2008 by David Schach 1 Comment

I recently discovered a blog so chock-full of Apex and Visualforce goodies that I had to mention it. Sam Arjmandi is a CRM System Analyst/Designer at Open Text in Toronto, and he writes incredible posts sharing some innovative Apex, Visualforce, and AJAX code ideas. He has posts on proper test coverage for Apex (always a […]

Filed Under: Companies Tagged With: Apex, Blogs, Force.com Platform, Visualforce

Apex – The Basics

October 1, 2008 by David Schach 1 Comment

Jon Mountjoy has written another super post over at developer.force.com. This one is titled An Introduction to Apex. It goes through some of the basics of the language and provides some examples. Everyone should read this; beginners will get a better orientation than otherwise available, and experienced Apex developers will probably also learn a thing […]

Filed Under: Apex, Development Tagged With: Apex, Force.com Platform, Salesforce

Winter 09 (156) – New And Updated Documentation

September 19, 2008 by David Schach Leave a Comment

More Winter 09 documentation has been released. Scott Hemmeter wrote a post listing some of the pages containing new content, but I wanted to go a bit in-depth on those and some other parts of developer.force.com.

Documentation
This should be your first stop whenever you have any questions about ANYTHING on the Platform. It has sections on Web Services API (formerly just called API, to distinguish it from Metadata API), Metadata API, Apex, Visualforce, AJAX, Office Toolkit, Force.com Migration Tool, IDE, and the Library.

Core Resources
In addition to a super Documentation page, force.com has a new section which contains, well, resources sectioned by the Platform’s service categories: Logic (Apex), User Interface (Visualforce), Database (Objects, formulas, triggers, etc.), Integration (API, REST), Services –What? We now have Services as a Service?–(Workflow), Packaging and Distribution (AppExchange), Development (Metadata), and Tools (IDE, Force.com Builder, Data Loader).

Filed Under: New Features, Salesforce Tagged With: Force.com Platform, New Developments, New Features

Salesforce Application Name Change to Salesforce CRM

September 5, 2008 by David Schach 1 Comment

As you can see from these logos, with the Winter 09 release the application Salesforce is now called Salesforce CRM.

To clarify any confusion:

The company is called salesforce.com (no capitalization).

The application is called Salesforce CRM.

The platform is still force.com.

Filed Under: Salesforce, Salesforce CRM Tagged With: Force.com Platform, New Developments, New Features, Salesforce

How to Deploy QUICKLY Between Orgs

September 4, 2008 by David Schach Leave a Comment

I just came across one of the most useful posts on developer.force.com that I have ever seen:

Full instructions (along with a best-practice) on deploying quickly from one org to another using the Eclipse IDE.

Read it at http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Deploy_Force.com_Applications_Faster. You’ll be glad you did.

Filed Under: Development Tagged With: Eclipse IDE, Force.com Platform

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