Display a Multi-picklist as Checkboxes

Nerding, SalesForce on December 15th, 2008 3 Comments

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 [...]

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Extracting Schemas from SalesForce

Nerding on November 26th, 2008 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Warming to SalesForce

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on November 20th, 2008 No Comments

I finally figured out what that weird, high strung, can’t sleep, anxious feeling is that I’ve had for a few days.  Stress!  It’s been so long without deadlines and related technical problems beyond my control that I almost forgot what it was like. So much for blogging every day, but there’s a demo due tomorrow [...]

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