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Salesforce Spring 2013 Release – A Developer’s View

For the Salesforce Spring 2013 release there are the headline additions and updates for developers: 1) Tooling API 2) Connect in Apex 3) Force.com Canvas Updates 4) Connected Apps But what I always get excited about is reading the details … Continue reading

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OrchestraCMS Custom Content Types that Include User Info

OrchestraCMS is a powerful content management system that resides directly on the Salesforce platform.  This allows us to leverage data that’s stored within Salesforce, giving us the ability to leverage an authenticated user’s data to fully customize their experience.  Using … Continue reading

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Creating parent relationships with the Partner API

When using the insert option with the APEX Data Loader there are no prompts to allow you to pick external IDs for any parent relationships.  Let’s say you were trying to upload contacts and you want to specify which account … Continue reading

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Where do I get information as a Salesforce Developer?

I can typically get most of the information that I need for development questions and troubleshooting from these resources… 1) Start at developer.force.com.  From this starting point you can get to just about anything that you need. 2) Salesforce documentation … Continue reading

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Creating a Custom Content Type with Multiple Display Templates in OrchestraCMS

OrchestraCMS is a powerful content management system that resides directly on the Salesforce.com platform.  What makes it unique and sets it apart from other content management systems is that content is managed at the content level, and not at the … Continue reading

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Opening a link in a new window with Javascript and Visualforce

In a recent project we had a link that was opening up in a new tab in the browser, but the client really wanted that link to open up in a new window.  The end user may have become lost … Continue reading

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Salesforce.com Spring ‘13 Release Features

The Spring ‘13 release for Salesforce is set to hit production starting January 18th and contains the following new/updated features: Chatter Enhancements: 1. Chatter Tasks – Staring in Spring ‘13, task related posts will be available in your Chatter feed.  … Continue reading

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The basics of calling a Visualforce page from a Salesforce detail page.

What ingredients do we need to call a Visualforce page from a detail page in Salesforce? 1)  1 Apex Class 2)  1 Test Class 3)  1 Visualforce page 4)  1 Custom Button 5)  Adding the custom button to a page … Continue reading

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A Look at Internal Salesforce Resources in the Future

Salesforce is still a relative newcomer for enterprise platform development, but it is here to stay.  Since it is such a new platform that means that the resources that can really make that new platform function effectively are pretty scarce.  … Continue reading

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Getting a Session ID in APEX using the Login Partner API Call.

Salesforce is great at allowing access to itself through the many possible APIs.  The first step in most cases is to do a Login to the Partner or Enterprise APIs so that a session ID can be returned.  Once you … Continue reading

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