Archive for the ‘Salesforce.com’ Category

Change a Tab to Open to a Default View

mgsmith | Friday, June 5th, 2009 | 15 Comments »

By default, when you click on any standard Salesforce.com Tab for an Object, it brings you to a list of “Recently Viewed” items. I, like many others, find this annoying. I’d much rather that SalesForce.com give us options to change the default View by Tab, ideally for each user Profile. In the mean time, the work-around was to use an

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Mass Contact Transfer – Part 2 (The Controller)

mgsmith | Monday, April 20th, 2009 | 18 Comments »

Mass Contact Transfer for SalesForce.com – Part of a multi-part post on developing a visualforce page to allow for mass contact transfers within SalesForce.com

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Mass Contact Transfer – Part 1 (The Page)

mgsmith | Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | 10 Comments »

Mass Contact Transfer for SalesForce.com – Part of a multi-part post on developing a visualforce page to allow for mass contact transfers within SalesForce.com

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Logging Deleted Records in Salesforce.com

mgsmith | Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Note: The code for all triggers, classes, and pages can be downloaded as an archived Eclipse IDE Project from here, or you can install this as a package into your Development or Sandbox environment from here. The Business Issues: As an administrator, there are times when I wanted to monitor records deleted, especially for certain users who had a habit of inadvertently or

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Dealing With Out of Control Report Growth

mgsmith | Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

For most medium to large SalesForce.com implementations, the following two statements are probably true: One of the favorites of most SalesForce.com users is the ease of creating new custom reports. One of the headaches of most administrators is dealing with the hundreds or thousands of reports that get created, saved, and then are never used again. Before the Force.com IDE,

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Twittering Away

mgsmith | Friday, February 13th, 2009 | No Comments »

Sorry for the long delay between blog posts. Between project work, vacation and being sick I just haven’t had the time to dedicate to writing a new post. But that changes now. Since my last post I’ve starting using Twitter. Click the Twitter link to the right to see my Twitter page and who I’m following. Some of you may

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Taking Multi-Currency in Salesforce.com to the Next Level

mgsmith | Sunday, January 25th, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Note: Post updated 28 Jan 2009 to include the trigger code discussed. As SalesForce prepares the Spring ’09 release, I wanted to touch on what I think is an area they need to focus on – Currency Management. In my opinion one of the biggest missing components of SalesForce.com has been around Currency Management, specifically around viewing amounts in different

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Spring Forward with Force.com

mgsmith | Friday, January 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Sping ’09 Release Preview Review

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May the Force.com Be With You

mgsmith | Sunday, December 14th, 2008 | No Comments »

Ah, yes. A techie-post. You knew it was coming. I just noticed that SalesForce.com released an update to their Winter ’09 IDE. If you are an SFC developer and  you’re not yet using the Eclipse IDE with the Force.com Perspective, I highly recommend it.  The IDE is a must if you’re doing anything with Apex Classes or Triggers. Sure, you

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