Archive for March, 2010

Smart GMail – Did you mean to attach files?

Today one of my friend noted a really unnoticed yet creative behavior of GMail. He tried to send an email with body containing “please find attached ….” and he clicked send, GMail instead of sending that email popped-up a message Did you mean to attach files? You wrote “find attached” in your message, but there [...]

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27 March 2010 at 14:53 - Comments
Anyhow, this creative stuff doesn't work if body contains "PFA" PFA is acronym for Please find attached ...
27 March 10 at 15:11

Ability to create alias for field labels across Profiles

Problem Statement We have users in multiple countries and different vernacular for the same entity. Is it possible to create an alias for a record type that displays for users with a specific profile so we can use the same record types and records, yet have the customization between different countries? It’s almost like using [...]

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24 March 2010 at 07:47 - Comments

YUI Library – The transparent mask turns black in IE 8

Problem Statement I use the YUI dialog in my project and turn on the “modal”, the initializing code looks like: document.mainDialog = new YAHOO.widget.Dialog("mainPanel", { modal: false, width: "89em", height: "30em", fixedcenter: true, visible: false, constraintoviewport: true }); The modal works fine in IE 7.0 and Fireforx 3.0, it generates a transparent mask to prevent [...]

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23 March 2010 at 19:09 - Comments

Salesforce – FTP Integration (Data loader, Web service & HTTP)

Author : Chirag Mehta & Angelica Buffa Using FTP servers to store and share files is very common now at days. Most language programs let you develop FTP clients and consume their services. With Apex, there are three possible approaches to resolve the integration with this kind of file servers: I – Data Loader CLI [...]

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22 March 2010 at 17:59 - Comments

How to configure Lotus Connect & Single Sign-On in a CITRIX Env

From last few days, I have been exploring  to find out how to configure(implement) Salesforce Lotus Connect & Single Sign-On in a CITRIX environment. Salesforce Support when contacted provided a displeased reply … Case Description Please highlight step by step process on how to configure (implement) Lotus Connect and Single Sign-On in a CITRIX enviornment Case [...]

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20 March 2010 at 14:21 - Comments

Use Google Maps on a secure(https) page

User Problem I’m including a Google Map on a page where users can sign up for a service. The page is accessed via SSL, and before I included the map, the entire page was transmitted securely. Now, however, browsers complain that portions of the page (the map) are transmitted insecurely. I understand the user information [...]

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19 March 2010 at 17:53 - Comments

Callout from scheduled Apex not supported

Problem Apex code with callouts doesnt works when scheduled. After requesting the debug logs, I could see the following: EXCEPTION_THROWN|[45,19]|System.CalloutException: Callout from scheduled Apex not supported. Solution You need to use the @future annotation. Refer Salesforce Blog for an example Share and Enjoy:

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19 March 2010 at 09:46 - Comments

Webinar : Salesforce Chatter Developer Preview Tech Talk

Salesforce Chatter is a new collaboration platform that lets you build collaborative cloud-computing applications on Force.com, applications enhanced with rich user profiles, status updates, feeds for monitoring applications and users, and more. In this webinar you will: Watch the webinar, and learn about Chatter Developer Preview: Understand the rich and powerful Chatter features Get to [...]

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18 March 2010 at 14:15 - Comments

Twitter experience anywhere on the web – @anywhere

When Twitter was designed, they took a different approach—they didn’t require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse their site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more. You could follow any account and be followed by any account. As a [...]

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16 March 2010 at 09:52 - Comments

Whitelist 34 different Salesforce IP Addresses

Salesforce.com sends email from 34 different IP addresses. If your organization blocks any of these IP addresses, users might not receive all email sent from Salesforce.com. The Salesforce.com IP ranges are: 202.129.242.64 to 202.129.242.65 204.14.232.64 to 204.14.232.79 204.14.234.64 to 204.14.234.79 Whitelist above Salesforce.com IP ranges on organization’s email server. Whitelisting an IP address allows the [...]

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15 March 2010 at 19:47 - Comments