Episode 1: Tasks
In this video, Kim Lundgren starts her Salesforce Basics video series with an overview of task functionality.
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Force.com Licensing – Know Your Options
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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Salesforce.com/Force.com Team Development
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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Working with The Force.com IDE and Subversion (SVN)
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
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Soliant Consulting Sponsors MOMENTUM 2013
Soliant Consulting joins Chicago AMA (American Marketing Association) MOMENTUM 2013 as a sponsor on February 19th at the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago.
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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later
Craig Stabler discusses the benefits of spending a little more upfront to avoid a breakdown later when it comes to your business software solutions.
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Determining Org Type in Apex Code
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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SFDC Best Practice for Child Relationship Names
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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Salesforce Tablet Numpad Trick
Check out this workaround for bringing up numeric keypads on a Salesforce textInput object under time constraints from certified developers.
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On-View triggers in Salesforce (trigger for Opportunity Contact Roles)
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
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