We’ve been working with Bike Texas to improve their implementation, usage, and return on investment from SalesForce and Kimbia. Most significantly, we performed a significant migration of data from a legacy FileMaker database to SalesForce. We created a mapping between data models, and performed the migration and followup. Kimbia is an online donation widget and [...]
This post is just pure SEO love for a solution on the SalesForce Community forums. http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/Visualforce-Development/Using-the-New-quot-Rich-Text-Area-quot-Data-Type-in-VisualForce/m-p/169410#M21288 I ran into a problem recently where I changed a long text field to a rich text field, but could not use it in a VisualForce page in Sites. It worked fine viewing the page in SalesForce itself. I [...]
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. [...]
