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Setting Lead Assignment Rules with Apex
If you want to create a new Lead via Visualforce or web form with Apex it’s very possible you could overlook the Assignment Rules. As you might know, it’s not even always obvious on the native Lead creation layout. Notice the lower left corner checkbox in the screenshot below. To enforce Assignment Rules in Apex…
Salesforce – Flash Builder Integration Announced
Adobe and Salesforce have always worked well together They are complimentary technologies – Flash is primarily a display platform and Salesforce is more data focused. Using Flex or Flash to present data from the SalesForce cloud is a great way to make a really seamless and slick user experience. This latest development makes that even…
Who should do the estimating?
How to Avoid Governor Limits with sendEmail in Apex
You can send emails programmatically in Salesforce Apex, but if you’re not careful you can hit the measly governor limit of 10 in no time at all. You see, although your outbound email limit is 1000 with Apex, only a total of 10 sendEmail method calls are allowed in each context. Obviously the way to…
Burndowns considered harmful?
The Disempowered Project Manager
The Case for Custom Software
Visualforce: Salesforce.com’s markup language
Visualforce is SFDC’s custom mark up language and represents the view in a Model-View-Controller target=”_blank” software design pattern. Each Visualforce page is tied directly to a controller. These controllers, of course, manipulate the data in the model (database) and contain your application’s business rules. Visualforce is made up of components (standard and custom.) These are…
How to Define a RemoteObject in Actionscript
For the project I have been recently working on, I wanted to define a set of services in ActionScript that I could use to communicate via AMF to PHP. It turns out that this technique is not well documented around the web. Here’s how I did it. Important: This example uses Flex 4. You will…