July 2017 Update: Force.com has been replaced with App Cloud licensing options. Learn more about the change and how to transition here. In most organizations, not everyone needs access to full-blown CRM functionality. There might be users who never touch Leads or Opportunities, need read-only access to just Accounts and Contacts, or maybe a custom […]
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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
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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 ❯
Soliant Consulting joins Chicago AMA (American Marketing Association) MOMENTUM 2013 as a sponsor on February 19th at the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago.
Soliant Consulting Sponsors MOMENTUM 2013 Learn More ❯
Craig Stabler discusses the benefits of spending a little more upfront to avoid a breakdown later when it comes to your business software solutions.
Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later 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 ❯
Native Opportunity Limitations One current limitation with Salesforce.com native Opportunities model is the inability to have a trigger on the Opportunity Contact Role object. Say you have built a custom Opportunity rollup or scoring mechanism of some variety and it relies upon what/who the user selects in the Opportunity Contact Role area: how will you
On-View triggers in Salesforce (trigger for Opportunity Contact Roles) 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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