Year: 2010 (Page 5 of 8)

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 email server to receive email from an IP address that might otherwise be blocked

Sometimes there is a need to align(float) few of the columns of datatable to right for eg., List Price in Opportunity Products page functionality is shown in right aligned style.

In those cases, use following piece of snippet to render the column header and column values in right aligned manner

<apex:column width="23%">
<apex:facet name="header" >
<apex:outputPanel id="datePanel" style="float:right;">Role</apex:outputPanel>
</apex:facet>
<apex:OutputLink style="float:right;" target="_blank" value="/{!UserRoleName}">{!UserRole.Name}</apex:OutputLink>
</apex:column>

Highlighted in above code are two different approaches

1. Use output panel to enclose set of things and add float:right style attribute to it
2. Directly add float:right style to the element (in this case OutputLink)

Today, I enabled new user Interface on one of my developer org and noticed that it’s not supported on all browsers. There’s a small warning box that appears the moment you select the New User Interface.

You need to contact salesforce support in order to enable New User Interface feature. Once enabled, to set up your User Interface please access Setup | Customize | User Interface.

apex-lang is an open-source library of helper classes written purely in apex whose goal is to address shortcomings in the core apex classes. (If you’re not familiar with apex, apex is the programming language provided by salesforce.com’s development platform and is essentially a trimmed down version of java with added syntax for exploiting the force.com platform.)

apex-lang was inspired by the Apache Commons Lang project whose creators had a similar goal of addressing gaps in java’s core API. apex is fairly feature rich; however, let’s face it, functionality in its core API is sorely lacking. And why shouldn’t it? salesforce.com is in the “on-demand platform” business, not the API building business.

On the other hand, apex-lang is very much in the API building (not for profit) business. So, its the intent of apex-lang to fill in the gaps in the core apex classes. And to fill them more quickly than salesforce can. Salesforce only has 3-4 releases a year; in contrast, apex-lang can be released as many times as needed during a single year.

Install to:
Production as Managed Package
Sandbox as Managed Package
Production as Unmanaged Package
Sandbox as Unmanaged Package

Alternatively, you can Download the source or Browse the code

Also available on AppExchange @ http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000001qoYfEAI

Ack : Richard.Vanhook

Scenario
I had a Visualforce page where the second field is a date field. Everytime the page loads, salesforce automatically brings the date field in focus and the calendar widget pops up. This can be very confusing to the users as the date field is required to be populated only in certain cases. Is there a way to remove the focus or allow me to have some other field in focus?

Solution
Create hidden element inside form

<input id="hiddenElement" type="hidden" />

Add following JS code to add an window.onload event to set the focus to the hidden element

<script type="text/javascript">

window.onload = setFocus

function setFocus() {

document.getElementById(“hiddenElement”).focus();

}

</script>

To conclude, ..

So no longer the page load will default the focus to Calendar field and no longer the pop-up will hinder the page view.

nJoy Coding!!