Tag: Salesforce

  • How to Configure Salesforce for Outlook – Video Tutorial

    This Video Tutorial will help to beginners on basic setup of Salesforce for Outlook. How to create Outlook Configuration Which objects can be synchronized Deciding on direction of Synchronization Creating DataSet Attach Email with any record Setting field mapping for Custom fields of Contact in Outlook and in Salesforce

  • JQuery Based Raffle in Salesforce

    Recently i run into very interesting scenario where i had to randomly take name of few contacts. There are many ways to do it but I thought why not to implement this functionality in Salesforce with help of some Javascript? So i came up with this – JQuery based Raffle in Salesforce. I have created…

  • AutoComplete Component in Visualforce using JQueryUI

    In this tutorial, I am going to explain very Simple AJAX and JSON based Auto Complete component with the help of JQuery UI. First I am assuming that you already have Static Resource of named “AutoCompleteWithModal“. This Static resource has all images, CSS and JQuery library needed to implement this component. In one of my…

  • Salesforce Interview Question – Part 15

    141 : User Wants to set the starting day in Calendar as “Monday” instead of “Sunday”. How to get it done? Ans : Change the user locale to “English ( United Kingdom ) ” in Personal information or User record. 142 : Why CSS is not working in PDF created by Visualforce ? Ans :…

  • Dynamic Report Filters in Salesforce

    I have seen many customers in need to have Dynamic Filter. In Absence of Dynamic filter, many times we end up with creating multiple reports with same format and different condition. Many time, we need something like get all cases related to Parent Account of Opportunity. We can simply create a report for Case and…

  • Create Simple Mass Delete Button for ListView using Salesforce Ajax Toolkit

    In Many situation, I needed a Mass Delete Kind of button. Where, i can select records in ListView and simply click “Delete” button. In this example, we will create a simple List View button and add on “Search Layout” of that object. So, create a new Custom Button with following property: Display Type :  List Button…

  • Extended Mail Merge Template

    In many cases, I have seen customer struggling with “Standard Mail Merge” functionality. I have suggested them to either use “Drawloop“ or “Conga Composer“ however these applications are paid. Before going ahead let’s see the drawbacks of “Standard Mail Merge”: It runs on Client side and needs ActiveX Control It needs Internet Explorer It does…

  • Using FieldSet with Visualforce and Apex

    One of the disadvantages comes up with Custom Page or Overriding New or Edit button with Visualforce page is its “Maintenance”, if New Filed is Added or needed to remove field we have to modify our code every time. However, Thanks to Salesforce that we have “Field Set“. With the Help of “Dynamic Visualforce Binding”…

  • Creating First Application in Heroku using Eclipse

    Hello Readers, in this article we will see step by step procedure to deploy your first (Hello World) program in Heroku. There are two ways, first going through series of Commands of “Heroku” and “GIT” and other simple and smart way is to use Eclipse Capability with Heroku. To make things easier we will go…

  • Import User Quotas in Amount for Collaborative forecasting

    In Customizable Forecast, we can add the Quota for user by navigating to User Page and going to Quota related list However in Collaborative Forecasting aka Forecast 3 the only way is using Data Loader. 1. Log-in to the Data Loader and use the Insert function. 2. Click “Show all Salesforce objects and select “Forecasting…