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 [...]
After about a half hour of debugging, I figured out that if you’re calling a method from an inputText VisualForce element, a la <apex:inputText value=”{!BiteMe}” /> And if that method’s setter is private, exempli gratia public String BiteMe { get { return ‘gnash snarl’; } private set; } Then SalesForce will give you an Internal [...]
I stumbled into the SalesForce universe a little unexpectedly. Kirk and I were starting to flirt with Convio’s Common Ground*, and I had some previous experience as an SugarCRM administrator and customizer. I noticed a posting on the Nonprofit Salesforce.com Practitioners Group, Kirk reminded me to follow up on it, and six months later I’ve spent [...]
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 subset [...]
