Team development in the Salesforce platform can be very frustrating if you don’t have the right process defined. For developers used to “traditional” software development, it can be painful (it was for us), until you figure out the right way to do it. Here at Soliant Consulting, we have been working on defining the right […]
Salesforce.com/Force.com Team Development Learn More ❯
The Force.com IDE is one of two IDEs that we use here at Soliant Consulting. The other one is MavensMate. I personally prefer the former at the moment, mainly because of the Synchronize perspective, which, as mentioned below, can be very useful in different situations. Some of my colleagues prefer the latter, so you may
Working with The Force.com IDE and Subversion (SVN) Learn More ❯
Have you ever wanted to run one block of code in a sandbox and another block in the production org? I couldn’t find a built-in Apex function that allowed me to determine whether the code was running in a Production/DE environment or in a sandbox. Fortunately, I ran across this post that gave enough info
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Please declare a unique Child Relationship Name! Think of it as just as important as the Related List Label (which is what your Salesforce users see). The Child Relationship Name is what developers see when writing sub queries in Apex. Salesforce uniquely names Child Relationships if you don’t. However, those names are generally useless for
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Check out this workaround for bringing up numeric keypads on a Salesforce textInput object under time constraints from certified developers.
Salesforce Tablet Numpad Trick Learn More ❯
Meet up with Soliant Consulting at Dreamforce on September 18-21, 2012 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Please send us your information through our contact form if you’d like to arrange to meet with a member of the Soliant team during the conference. The theme for Dreamforce 2012 is “Touch The Social Enterprise”. Guests
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Learn how Soliant helped Global Experiences move to Salesforce and drive customer relationship management and content management system for their website.
Connecting Around the World with Salesforce – Check out Soliant’s new case study! Learn More ❯
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
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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
Salesforce – Flash Builder Integration Announced Learn More ❯
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
Visualforce: Salesforce.com’s markup language Learn More ❯