Tag: Salesforce

  • 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…

  • How to Debug Manage Package in Salesforce

    Many times as a developer we need to debug the manage package for possible run time error. For example , while uploading contacts using Import wizard we get “Internal Server Error” and when we try to look into debug log there is no clear indications. However in my experience i have seen this kind of…

  • Salesforce Helptext like Custom Tooltip using JQuery

    Welcome back Readers. This is my first blog entry for year 2013, i know its too late. However i can ensure that i have lots of unique post which will come this year. I am starting this year with very light post , mimic the help-text style of Salesforce. Download Salesforce Helptext like Tooltip using…

  • Merge PDF in Salesforce Using Java, ITextPDF and OAuth 2

    Its long time, since i wrote any article because of my busy schedule However this time i came with advance one. In this article we are going to use the J2EE (Servlet) to Merge PDF attachment inside salesforce with the help of OAuth and ITextPDF jar file. The reason of writing this article is that…

  • Salesforce Interview Question – Part 13

    121 : Consider we have overall 90% code coverage however there is one class which have 0% code coverage. Can we still able to deploy that class on production? Ans : Yes. Minimum 1% required for every trigger and there is no such restriction for Apex class. 122 : How to get selected records ID…

  • Change year range in Datepicker – Salesforce

    In Datepicker control of salesforce, most of the developers must have faced issue on year range for Datepicker control. We cannot configure the year range in standard date picker control. However, for a long time i am using a JQuery code to change the range of years in Datepicker and thought to share with you.…

  • Salesforce + Git + Eclipse + EGIT = Better and Distributed Source Control

    During my J2EE and .Net days, I was much dependent on the subversion repository. I had never thought my code without SVN. When I moved to Salesforce few years back, the first thing I missed is code repository to have better source code control. As svn creates either “.svn” or “_svn” folder, it was not…