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 Server Error. Way to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Maps, [...]
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 around [...]
