Tag: Salesforce
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Salesforce Spring 15 – some highlighted features
Download PDF version of release notes from here. 1. Import Account / Contact from 16 different sources (previously generic csv was only option to import). 2. Salesforce Analytics Query language (SAQL) We already know about SOQL and SOSL. This is new Query language for Analytics cloud to enable ad hoc analysis of data stored in…
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Automate Command Line Dataloader using ANT with Dynamic arguments and SOQL query
As we know, there are multiple ways to load data inside Salesforce like using Workbench, Jitterbit, API etc… Salesforce also provides standard tool to load data into Salesforce using DataLoader. Dataloader by default supports User Interface or Command Line interface. Most of us already know that User interface based Dataloader needs manual interaction by end…
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Salesforce – Drag and Drop File Uploader Component with Progress Bar – HTML5 and Pure Javascript Based
You may find many ways to upload attachments in Salesforce using visualforce however most of them uses some Javascript libraries (means either you need to depend on static resources or add CDN in remote site settings) or they do not have progress bar or they are not drag and drop. I thought to create one simple Visualforce…
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Access Camera and Audio recorder of Mobile device in Visualforce and upload as chatter file
In this article we will see how to use Camera and Audio recorder of mobile device in Visualforce and upload as chatter file. It may look that it is very tricky to access device camera and audio control in Visualforce however you may be right if there were no HTML5. Thanks to HTML5 for magic.
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Creating Salesforce Query Builder in Node.js and AngularJs using Salesforce REST API and OAuth2 with Heroku Button
In this post, we will be creating a Salesforce Query (SOQL) Builder. It uses Google’s Angularjs MVC Javascript library and REST API provided by Salesforce. For Authentication, it uses OAuth2. Node.js is used as a primary language and hosted on Heroku. If you want to directly deploy to your Heroku Account, You can use Heroku Button on…
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Automated Daily Backup of Salesforce Using ANT Migration Tool and GIT
In few previous articles, I have talked about how to use “ANT Migration tool in Salesforce” and “How to Use EGit plugin in Eclipse to work with Git“. So to make this article short, I assume that you are already familiar with ANT Migration tool provided by Salesforce and Git. During project development life cycle it…
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Creating Progress Bar field using Formula| Without any coding
In this post we will discuss on creating Progress bar field without any coding, just by using formula field. Initially it seems like we can’t create dynamic progress bar field by using only formula in Salesforce. There are some approach, where developers stores 4 images with interval of 25% or 10 images with 10% interval…
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Send Email with Generated PDF as attachment from Trigger – before Winter 16
There may be scenario in Salesforce that you need to send a Visualforce page rendered as PDF as a part of Email Attachment. This will be very easy if you want to perform this using Controller or Extension class, we just have to call getContentAsPDF() method of PageReference class and use returned blob data as…
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Step by step guide to Setup Federated Authentication (SAML) based SSO in Salesforce – Video Tutorial
In this post, We will be dicussing how to setup Federated SAML based Authentication in Salesforce. SAML stands for “Security Assertion Markup Language” and it is Open standard for exchanging Authentication and Authorization between Systems. SAML based authentication is supported by all editions of Salesforce. User Validation can be initiated by any one of below two…