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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #38 - Wrap Text in PageBlockTable Columns I have a pageBlockTable on Products. The table displays Product Name and its Description. The description field is long text area and generally, the descriptions length is long. In fact, …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #37 - Trigger Helper Class I have a trigger that calls an Apex Handler class that does all the functionality of the trigger. The handler class uses static methods. In our scenario, the handler method calls …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #36 - Display Image from Rich Text Field in Visualforce Page I have a field of type Text Area (Rich) called Product in a Contact object. And I upload a picture to the field for one …
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Are you concerned about exposing the URL to an external system for integration and wish not to do so? Are you worried about sharing the Username / Password to connect to an external system and how to hide it? Then Named Credentials is the way to go and you are at right place to learn …
Are you concerned about exposing the URL to external system for integration and wish not to do so? Are you worried about sharing the Username / Password to connect with external system and how to hide it? Then Named Credentials is the way to go and you are at right place to learn and know …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! A Tip A Day #33 - Click vs Code Salesforce started out as a declarative platform during its inception and continues to provide a rich set of declarative features. Salesforce refers to these features as “Point-and-click” which helps …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #24 - THREE Ways to remove an Apex class from Production In a scenario, you no longer want to use the functionality in your apex class remove it from your Salesforce production org, so as to reduce the …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #23 - FIVE Ways To Stop Trigger In Production In a scenario, you no longer want to use the functionality in your trigger and want to turn it off in your Salesforce production org, as in make …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #21 - PriceBookEntry Creation with StandardPrice We have a Product with a standard price of say $100. As shown below, in Salesforce UI, it is easy to add a product and add a standard price (related …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #20 - Deploy while running Scheduled Jobs While deploying an apex class via change sets or Force.com IDE, you sometimes receive one of these error messages - "Schedulable class has jobs pending or in progress" " …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #19 - Set Currency of User I have a user whose current Currency is set as SGD - Singapore Dollar Requirement The requirement is now to change the Currency of the user to USD. Simple? I thought …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #18 - Rollup Summary Decimals in Database Lets say you have a rollup summary field of decimal on your master object record which is a SUM of currency field of your child records. Scenario: For a child …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #9 - Workaround for PricebookEntry Trigger Salesforce has quite a few limitations on Product, Pricebook and Pricebookentry objects. The one that I recently faced on Pricebookentry is that we are not allowed to write triggers on Pricebookentry …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #10 - ISCLONE in Trigger Triggers work on events like Insert, Update, Delete, Undelete. There are requirements where you need to perform actions on Cloning of records too. Salesforce has the default method that checks whether …
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #8 - Display Line Breaks of Long Text Area in a Visualforce page. I have a field of type long text area called "Description" in Products object. The value of this is generally a couple of paragraphs …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #7 - US Phone Validation Using RegEx (Regular Expression) US Phone Number : 222-333-4444 String phone = '222-333-4444'; String WrongPhone = '222-333' //This is the pattern that matches with the above phone number format String regExPhone …
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This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #2 - Display custom popup message while Submitting for Approval Standard Approval Process Feature: When you setup Standard Approval process on any object, a standard button 'Submit For Approval' will be added to the page layout of …
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In this blog post, I'd be discussing the different ways to lock a Salesforce record in UI. By lock, I mean, the user shouldn't be able to edit the field values of the record. I have identified 7 ways to lock a record using configuration and coding. There is a general requirement that the Business doesn't …
The following post explains how to send a complex, stylized table formatted email with data records from your Salesforce system. For this, we will be using Visualforce Email Template, Visualforce Component with an apex custom controller. The visualforce component will be placed in the email template; the custom controller will pull the required data from Salesforce using …
Salesforce has introduced Optimizer to evaluate your Salesforce org implementation which determines how your company uses "certain" Salesforce features, then identifies ways that you can improve. This is available for free for everyone. You can run Optimizer in sandbox/production to receive recommendations to: Improve features Clean up customizations Reduce complexity and Drive feature adoption. Features Evaluated …
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