Archive for April, 2010

Is Aamir a Marketing Genius …

Aamir can give lessons in film marketing at top B-schools globally. Some cases in point: Ghulam (Aamir promoted the train stunt), Ghajini (got down to giving kids the buzz cut in Delhi), Fanaa (landed up to support Narmada Bachao Andolan), Taare… (activities with Darsheel Safary), Lagaan (Oscar buzz), and 3 Idiots (vanished only to emerge [...]

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24 April 2010 at 14:26 - Comments

How to format a date in VisualForce?

Problem Statement In Salesforce, if I’m binding a date into a VisualForce page, how do I apply custom formatting to it? Example: <apex :page standardController=”Contact”> </apex><apex :pageBlock title=”Test”> <p>{!contact.Birthdate}</p> </apex> <apex :detail relatedList=”false” /> This will output a date in the default format: Thu Jul 01 09:10:23 GMT 2009 How do I get it (for [...]

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23 April 2010 at 14:57 - Comments

Salesforce – Restrict emails on new case, task, password reset …

The Salesforce.com user interface allows you to specify whether or not to send an email when the following events occur: Creation of a new case or task Creation of a case comment Conversion of a case email to a contact New user email notification Password reset In Apex scripts saved against API version 15.0 or [...]

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21 April 2010 at 13:31 - Comments

Visualforce – Adding History related list to Tabbed Account

Problem Statement Has anyone been able to generate the “account history” tab in visualforce page? If i try using “Histories” in <apex:relatedList>, I get error msg saying it is not valid child relation name.. Solution1 This works for me to add a link to the account field history: <apex:tab label=”Field History” name=”Field History” id=”fieldhistory”> <apex:outputLink [...]

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15 April 2010 at 23:56 - Comments

URL to export(download) Salesforce Report

Problem Statement It may be possible that sometime you need to code or provide a link to directly download a report. Solution In order to directly export a report, navigate to following URL. This URL request will prompt you with open/save dialog to export the report. Here, https://na1.salesforce.com is Salesforce hostname on which the org [...]

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14 April 2010 at 20:55 - Comments

Salesforce – VMware to announce “VMForce”

What’s the story behind “Salesforce – VMware to announce VMForce”. Salesforce is advertising loudly something as follows … Join industry leaders Marc Benioff, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, and Paul Maritz, president & CEO of VMware, for a live Webcast where they will make an exciting joint product announcement on the future of cloudcomputing. Date: April 27, 2010 Time: 10:30 [...]

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13 April 2010 at 22:20 - Comments
zdnet says .. VMware and Salesforce.com appear to be launching a virtualization as a service offering
13 April 10 at 22:29
also zdnet adds .... It’s likely the two parties will announce a data center tie up and some sort of ...
13 April 10 at 22:30

How to Deep Link to a Specific Point in a YouTube Video

There are hundreds of videos on YouTube which contain valuable best practice content. To help surface the golden nuggets here are three ways to deep link to specific places within the video. 1. Create a link to a specific part in a YouTube video If you want to link to a specific part of a [...]

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6 April 2010 at 18:24 - Comments

How to export data to CSV file/text file using Apex

Problem Statement I want to export list of object into CSV file using Apex Solution <apex:page controller=”csvController” cache=”true”  contentType=”text/csv#filename.csv” language=”en-US”> “Col A”,”Col B”,”Col C”,”Col D” <apex:repeat value=”{!myList}” var=”a”> “{!a.ColA}”,”{!a.ColB}”,”{!a.ColC}”,”{!a.ColD}” </apex:repeat> </apex:page> Please note that With the #filename.csv, it prompts the user to save/open the file. Otherwise, it loads into the browser as html You’ll also have to format the VF page as a clean [...]

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6 April 2010 at 15:12 - Comments

Indian company to create call center jobs in the US

There is one word used over and over again in India to describe JustDial The idea is simple: You call up and within the first ring a real person picks up the phone, you ask them for any business listing – in any category – and within 45 seconds they email or text you the [...]

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5 April 2010 at 22:12 - Comments