We have this amazing thing of collaboration inside Salesforce, the Chatter – an amalgamation of best features of Facebook and Twitter. And to add, it’s for enterprise, so its Enterprise Collaboration Isn’t that awesome!!! Chatter supports lot of things post, comments, likes, follows etc and best part is its not just user posts, comments etc .. its data posts, [...]
Posted by Chirag Mehta
Make Salesforce calendar year drop-down to show earlier years
Problem: The birthdate field on the Contact object doesn’t show previous year and neither does it allow to switch back and forth the Years part easily. Solution: Below example will show the last 100 years. Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Customize -> User Interface. Here make sure the ‘Show Custom Sidebar Components on [...]
Email to Chatter
Installation Url: https://login.salesforce.com/packaging/installPackage.apexp?p0=04t30000001EoJh
Alvida … Phir milenge … Good Bye Tata Consultancy Services …
Dear TCS’ers … Today, 5+ Years of my journey in TCS comes to an end. I would like to personally let you know that today I am leaving my position at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. I have enjoyed working here and I sincerely appreciate having had the chance to work with you. Thank you for [...]
How do I mass-move reports from one folder into another new folder
Problem Statement: We are currently cleaning up our report folders. In order to do so we want to move all unused reports into a ‘quarantene map’ before deleting them. How can we move a large number of reports all at once into one folder? i.e., Approach1 In the Eclipse IDE Create a new project Include [...]
Field datatype mapping between Oracle/SQL Server and Salesforce
Over the time I have started developing a tool that pulls salesforce metadata information and creates oracle/sql server “create table” scripts. Isn’t that really awesome!! The most useful part of the tool is field data type mapping i.e, what data type of salesforce maps to what data type of oracle/sql server. Below is the list [...]
Apex Visualforce Code Scanning directly in Force.com IDE
A year back Salesforce began supporting source code analysis on Force.com through http://security.force.com/sourcescanner. But there wasn’t any integration with the Force.com IDE. Checkmarx, the company Salesforce partnered with to provide Force.com source scanning, has stepped up and made an offering available to all of us. For 90 days, for the first 1000 developers, they’ll give [...]
Salesforce Ideas Coming in Spring ’11 Release
Check out which Ideas are Coming in the Spring ’11 Release! Criteria Based Sharing (includes by Record Type) Google Chrome Web Browser makes Salesforce Faster – Make Google Chrome available “Like” button is needed in Chatter Notification Icon for Tweets / Chatter Allow for in-line editing of fields on visualforce pages Allow more than three [...]
Is Database.com Dreamforce’10 new baby …
Came acrorss a site Database.com, is that a new baby to be delivered in Today’s Dremaforce’10 conference? Check this Read more @ http://www.database.com/
Facebook Email or FEmail or FMail or Future Email ….?
Are we going to hear something spectacular or something really new n future Email service from Facebook.com? There are lot of speculations on inet about Facebook about to announce it’s email service tomorrow (15 Nov, 2010). Let’s wait and watch. However there are few interesting facts Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name. The whois [...]