Rich Text and VisualForce

Nerding, SalesForce on October 12th, 2010 No Comments

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 [...]

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One Silly SalesForce Internal Server Error

Nerding, SalesForce on February 9th, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

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SalesForce Development ARGH!

Nerding, SalesForce on January 11th, 2009 5 Comments

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 [...]

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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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