Tutorial Using Invocable Methods with Skuid Now that invocable methods are available I wanted to see if I could use them from inside of Skuid. Ideally, it would be great if Skuid could make invocable methods available from the
Apex Trigger Developing Custom Apex Roll-up Summary Field Logic In this article, we will walk through creating custom roll-up summary field logic and how to avoid some common pitfalls. We will also explore various options for initiating a roll-up routine with tools
Apex Code Working with Apex Code Maps Maps are a critical data type to get to know when developing on the Force.com platform. You can use them in a lot of creative ways to make your code more readable,
Ghost I Switched to Ghost from Wordpress I switched over to the Ghost.org blogging platform from Wordpress over the weekend and it was surprisingly painless. I have been planning the move all month long and finally decided to work
Typing Polymorphic Fields in Apex Salesforce makes use of polymorphic relationship fields for native lookup fields that can reference multiple objects. The most common fields that use polymorphic relationships are Owner fields and Activity WhatId/WhoId fields. There
Apex Code Friends don't let Friends Troubleshoot Alone I recently had the opportunity to help a buddy of mine troubleshoot an issue that concerned Salesforce.com account shares. The error showed up on the developer message boards from years past but
Ways to Manage Common Data Entry Issues Part 2 of my guest blog post for ShellBlack.com The scenario described in our previous blog post on analyzing data during a migration tells a very realistic story of a user just
Improving Data Quality by Analyzing Data Migrations Part 1 of my guest blog post for ShellBlack.com Data migrations are a necessary part of transitioning from your current system to the Salesforce platform. Because of this, there is a strong
Apex Code Multi-currency Support for Rollups I recently came across a requirement to support multi-currency for a rollup trigger where the parent object and child object each maintained their own currencies. The objects where not part of a master-detail
Good Day Sir Podcast Good Day, Sir Podcast I spend a lot of time with friends and colleagues discussing recent events in technology, salesforce, and software development. I have always found these conversations to be entertaining and valuable in pulling me
Salesforce.com Winter'14 Release Notes The Salesforce.com Winter'14 Release Notes are now available for download.
Apex Code Trigger Best Practices Part 2 - Unit Testing It is worth mentioning that in most other development environments there isn't anything enforcing the use of unit testing other than internal policies or personal preference. However, Salesforce requires unit testing before code
Apex Code Enabling Custom Paging using Apex and Visualforce It’s a common request these days for me - which is the need to not only provide column level sorting but paging as well. While, a reusable sorting class is still a
apex triggers Salesforce Apex Trigger Best Practices For some time now I have been asked about best practices for implementing an Apex Trigger mainly by developers just getting into Salesforce.com development as well as system administrators that are not
Apex Code Cool tools @ Dreamforce – New IDE’s!! Guest Post by Mike Eaton If there was anything I could honestly say I truly missed from my days of building Microsoft solutions, it was Visual Studio. From the early days of annoying
Salesforce Known Issues List now Available! link: Salesforce Known Issues For some time now I have wanted Salesforce to publish a list of known issues for the platform. After all, why spend hours trying to troubleshoot an issue that
A little speculation about Salesforce Touch With the coming release of Salesforce Touch, which I predict will be released either at or just after Dreamforce 2012, I wanted to explore what impact this will have for developers and the
How to tell if a user has access to a record This is actually a very exciting topic for me as I have always struggled with ways to secure the customizations I provided to users using Visualforce based on their access to data in
Apex Code Create your own History Related List in Visualforce The story starts with getting a requirement to customize the detail view of an existing page. Nothing really extreme just need to be able to display a few sections dynamically based on information
Apex Code Bug: StandardController addFields Method I recently came upon a bug when attempting to implement the new addFields method on an Apex Standard Controller class. The purpose of the add fields method is to allow a developer to
Jquery Using JQuery with Visualforce Pages Lately I have been working to improve our user interfaces for areas of the application that we have customized heavily, most of which is modeled after the standard Salesforce CRM UI and works
My Experience with integrating large datasets with Salesforce.com Integrating large data sets with Salesforce.com has always been a challenge that often requires a lot of trial and error and some creative caching techniques. I have written a number of integrations
Guarding Against Null Reference Errors in Apex Code The joy of debugging and troubleshooting a null-reference error is enough to make you want to toss your notebook (or whatever is handy) through a wall (maybe I have anger issues...haha). So
Conference Dreamforce 2010 It's conference time! Sunday morning I am heading out to the Dreamforce conference. Looking forward to the event. I have gone the last two years and it has been fun, informative, and at
Apex Code Salesforce Custom Labels Custom labels can be a powerful ally for your code. I have only recently started incorporating them into my code as a best practice. When custom labels were first released they provided a