Category: Salesforce

  • Chatter – Collaboration in Cloud

    Few Years back, When Chatter was introduced in Salesforce there were many critics on this product. Many Experienced analyst suggested that why do we need Social application inside enterprise application ? Today, I can’t even imagine Salesforce without Chatter. Its more than just Social, Its all about Communication in Team, Visibility, Collaboration. Success of any…

  • Client side Templating using Underscore.js and JQuery

    Recently, I ran into requirement where I was getting JSON response and needed to render it on my Mobile application. I had two Options, Server side processing and Client side Templating. I studied and checked both way ; came to conclusion on using Client side Templating. There are many plugins and libraries available however there…

  • Why should I use JSON over XML ?

    Why should I use JSON over XML ? Why JSON is given so importance these days ? Many questions like these are asked many times by new developers. So, I decided to write this article. However last year I presented same topic and uploaded in SlideShare. Before Winter12 release, for JSON related stuff we had…

  • Who has Downloaded My Chatter Files ?

    Salesforce is evaluating and enhancing the way we use Files with help of Content and Chatter Files. Customer might want to know that who has downloaded Chatter files on their Local System? In this article, I will explain a little hack on identifying name of Users, who  has downloaded Chatter File from Organization. There is…

  • How to access ListView in Apex | Using StandardSetController for Pagination

    There are scenario in project lifecycle where developer creates SOQL or Dynamic SOQL to return expected result. Also if requirement changes they go back and change existing code to reflect updated SOQL. If you are good developer and avoid to change Apex code at most you will save your SOQL in “Custom Settings” and utilize…

  • Import User Quotas in Quantity (Unit) for Collaborative Forecasting

    In Previous article we have seen that how to import Quota in Amount (Revenue) for Collaborative forecasting.  I got many request on how to upload Quota in Units, as in Forecasting tab you can see that there is option to see Forecast in Unit or Amount. If we switch from Revenue to Quantity the Quota…

  • Consuming External Web Service in Apex – Salesforce

    One of the feature we have in Salesforce is that we can easily consume External Web Services. In this article, we will learn step by step demo of consuming Web Service in Apex. There are many public websites available to consume Web Service and one of them, I am using in this article is http://www.webservicex.net…

  • Using GIT with Force.com IDE – Video Tutorial

    In this article, we discussed how to use GIT with Eclipse. I have created Video Tutorial for same which includes How to Upgrade Eclipse from Helios to Indigo Install EGIT Plugin Introduction to Bit Bucket

  • Salesforce Winter 14 – New Features

    Major Area of Release: Developer Console Canvas HTML5 Support in Visualforce Deployment related features like improved deployment Monitoring New Database methods to get records deleted , updated in specific time Renaming “Service Cloud Console“ is renamed to “Salesforce Console for Service“ “Configuration Only“ sandbox renamed to “Developer Pro“ “Agent Configuration“ renamed to “Live Agent Configuration“…