My aim with this post is to outline some of the challenges of SalesForce development with an anecdote from my recent efforts in this arena.
To start, I wanted to do something fairly simple. There’s a semi-public area of SalesForce called the Customer Portal that my client had enabled. It allows for a [...]
As stereotypes go, technical people aren’t supposed to like salespeople and vice versa. Salespeople are pushy, unethical buffoons while technical people are obstinant, socially crippled ninnies. Both camps contribute a great deal to their images, of course.
I’d like to hone in on a few things I’ve noticed over the years (and again quite [...]
Instead of doing the work I’m supposed to be doing, which is to finally turn the tide against MEGA PROJECT that has been consuming my life for weeks, I spent 3 hours (and counting) backing up all the important data on my computer.
I’ve learned some interesting (ahem… interesting to me) things.
I have pretty much every [...]
Normally I wouldn’t post a code sample regarding something (seemingly) so straightforward, but this took myself and a contractor too much time to figure out. Multi-picklist fields in SalesForce.com are many-to-many relationships between a record and a set of strings. You can define what options are available in the object definition, and then select which [...]
It took me way too long to figure out how to get SalesForce to export schema information on an object. It seemed so tantalizingly easy – the salesforce.schema file is right there in the IDE but it’s a placeholder for a dynamically updated widget…that won’t export the XML it clearly contains.
So, I learned about Maps, [...]
