However, there’s been one feature which I been waiting for and always wanted to see which is auto refresh of posts (for techies – ajax refresh) without need to refresh the entire page. Without this feature collaboration doesn’t seems to be complete and web2.0 type.  An alternative to auto refresh can be a stream or ticker (like we have Feed Ticker on facebook) which keeps scrolling and shows posts / comments happening around without need to refresh page.

So I thought of building the same, and first thing I needed was a poller which can poll and see if there are any chatter posts, but that would have been too resource intensive, and would have died after few hours because of governor limits and bla … bla … And to save me, there came a really great feature The Streaming API. I’m loving it!

Two lines about API - Use Streaming API to receive notifications for changes to Salesforce data that match a SOQL query you define in a secure and scalable way. Streaming API is useful when you want notifications to be pushed from the server to the client based on criteria that you define.

So what’s next, I was super excited to get all started to use Streaming API and poll Chatter objects.  I was able to get basic streaming API program working (after few discussions around streaming api with Pat Patterson, as the API had few issues in terms of documentation).

In basic example, I created a PushTopic (a SOQL query that you want notifications about) of Account. Now as the objective is chatter stream, so I tried to create a PushTopic around chatter object, and here was entry of the Villain – PushTopic aren’t supported yet for Chatter objects (SF please enable the same @ earliest)

So what next,  trigger the rescue man came to help. Developed few triggers which will do realtime snapshot of chatter objects, and then created push topic against these snapshot objects.  This way (though indirect way) I will be able to get push notifications (using streaming API)  of chatter posts…wow, finally I made it. I got the CHATTER STREAM or CHATTER TICKER ..

The use case of this is endless,  sky is not the limit..

Road map:

• The notifications are lost the moment page is reloaded, so will try to add something which makes them persist until user has seen them.
• Apply Sharing Settings, as currently all messages of  all users are shown

Trust me this idea struck me in morning and by evening the tool/app was ready. Thanks to Rajesh Shah for helping me out in testing this app.

Solution:
Below example will show the last 100 years.

1. Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Customize -> User Interface. Here make sure the ‘Show Custom Sidebar Components on All Pages’ is checked.
2. Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Home Page Layouts. Make sure all your Home Page Layouts have the Messages & Alerts component checked.
3. Go to Setup -> App Setup -> Home Page Components. Here, click edit for Messages & Alerts. In the textarea, copy and paste the javascript code below and save (it can just go below your normal Messages & Alerts, won’t show up on the actual page).

<script src="/js/dojo/0.4.1/dojo.js"></script>
<script src="/soap/ajax/11.1/connection.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
dojo.require("dojo.collections.Store");
dojo.require("dojo.charting.Chart");
dojo.require('dojo.json');
var arYears = getYears();
function swapYears(){
	if(document.getElementById('calYearPicker') != null) {
		var select = document.getElementById('calYearPicker');
		var curValue = select.value;
		var parentx = select.parentNode;
		parentx.removeChild(select);
		select = document.createElement('select');
		select.size = 1;
		select.id = 'calYearPicker';
		select.name = 'calYearPicker';
		parentx.appendChild(select);
	}
	if(select != null) {
	for(x=0;x<100;x++) {
		select.options[x] = new Option(arYears[x], arYears[x], false, false);
	}
	}
}
function getYears() {
	sforce.sessionId = getCookie('sid');
	sforce.connection.sessionId=sforce.sessionId;
	var out = [];
	var currentTime = new Date()
	var year = currentTime.getFullYear()
	try {
		for(x=0;x<100;x++) {
			out[x] = x+year-99;
		}	

	} catch(error) {
		alert(error);
	}
	return out;
}
dojo.addOnLoad(swapYears);
</script>

Credits: Salesforce Community (http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/General-Development/Date-of-Birth-field-Calendar-years-don-t-go-back-before-this/td-p/120133)

Installation Url: https://login.salesforce.com/packaging/installPackage.apexp?p0=04t30000001EoJh

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 the support and encouragement you have provided me during my time at TCS. I will miss our interactions and projects we had worked on together.

I would appreciate your continued advice as I start the next phase of my career.

Please keep in touch. Again, thanks so much for your support and keep smiling.

Sometimes it gets very very hard to leave things aside and walk away, as those things have already made a big foot print in your soul.

Best regards,
Chirag

Approach1
In the Eclipse IDE

• Create a new project
• Include ‘reports’ or more specifically the report folders you are concerned with
• Let Eclipse refresh the project with the reports metadata
• In Eclipse, navigate to the reports folder you just download and then select the Report Folder you want the reports you want to move from, right click and select Properties
• Take Note of the Location. This is the path where the metadata files are located
• Open a windows explorer window and navigate to that path
• Highlight all the Reports you want to move and right click Cut
• Still in the Window explorer navigate back to the list of report folder and expand the one you want to move the reports to and right click and Paste
• Now back in the IDE highlight the folder titled Reports and right click and Refresh and then right click again and Force.com>Save to Server
• BOOM! Now you have moved your reports.

Approach2

• Another alternative would be to edit each report folder on the Report page and move unused reports to the Unfiled Public Reports folder.  You can then move all the reports in your Unfiled Public Reports folder to a new “quarantine” folder.  Yeah I know, still a lot of manual effort.

Approach3

• A appexchange product, DashPort, allows you to mass move and delete reports and dashboards. You can check out AppExchange listing for more details: http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000019lulEAA

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 of mapping that I used while generating create table scripts – enjoy!!

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 away a free version of an Eclipse plugin that can scan all Force.com code (under 100k LoC). The great thing about this is that you get actionable results, directly in your IDE, without having to cross reference line numbers in a report like you have to do today. I hope this is a great resource for all of us!

Download a copy at http://www.apexscanner.com.

• 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 “Run as logged-in user” Dashboards
• Report Builder: Type to search filter fields
• salesforce for outlook – save email attachments to salesforce
• Salesforce for Outlook – selective association of emails to records
• Rebrand Trialforce Welcome Message
• Sort Order of Quote Line Items
• Set the dashboard Running User as “current user” (dynamic) Enable this for EE
• RSS Feed for trust.salesforce.com
• Add delete button for inbound change sets
• SF Knowledge Articles: where is the number?
• Import / Export in the Translation Workbench
• New Dashboard Editor: Please support Google Chrome!
• Enable open web technologies like Google Chrome Frame in IE
• Making the Public Knowledge Base Shell Available in Different Languages
• Salesforce for Outlook: support for delegated authentication (SSO)
• Make Report Builder available to the Prof. Edition Standard User profile
• Warning Message in Outlook when password will expire
• Highlight the Edit Custom Filters button in the new report builder
• Allow Override of Labels of Managed Custom Objects

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However there are few interesting facts

• Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name. The whois record for the domain name just updated to show Facebook’s name and nameservers for the domain name.
• Try and send email to “yourprofileid@fb.com” (i.e., chiragmehta84@fb.com), the email doesn’t bounce back
• mail.facebook.com – prompts you with username and password to login to facebook email – Is it employee email account login or is it future login portal for the public

So there’s something really coming up this Monday, FEmail or FMail or Future Email ….