Prelude built the first phase of the Points of Light Institute’s ambitious reporting and data collection system using SalesForce.com. The POLI supports more than 250 affiliate organizations around the United States and elsewhere. To encourage full affiliate participation, the POLI wanted to provide immediate feedback and accessible reports – we helped them get there.
I’ve spent the week in San Francisco at the heavily attended DreamForce conference of SalesForce.com, doing my best not to get sugar poisoning from drinking the company kool-aid. It’s a substantial event, an impressive system that keeps getting better, and my vocal cords and feet and hands are sore from networking, hoofing it between events, [...]
In my grousing about the lack of easy CSV parsing in Apex, I began to feel like Paul Rudd’s character in Web Hot American Summer. Usually it’s not something you would need to do in SalesForce – the Import Wizard or Data Loader are built to do this easily for one table at a time. [...]
Somewhere in the Spring or Summer 09′ Updates of SalesForce, we started seeing Javascript errors within SalesForce’s Prototype code, such as: element.className is undefined element.hasClassName is undefined element.dispatchEvent is undefined Well, it turns out that jQuery and Prototype both overload some of the same things in the environment, so all you need to do is [...]
I found this open source library, and quickly realized that I needed some examples of how to use it. Finding none, anywhere on the internet, I struggled for about two hours before learning that you can chain together class names to reach internal classes. It wouldn’t be a SalesForce blog post without me bitching about [...]
