Have you ever needed a VisualForce lookup input field without using a lookup field from another “fake” object? I did, and now I have an easy to use VisualForce component that does the trick (almost all the trick). Here is the GitHub repository that contains the component. The components simply replicates what the standard lookup […]
Author: Enrico Murru
[Salesforce / Trailhead] Christmas Trailhead Gifts
Have you been a good or a bad boy this year? It doesn’t matter to TrailheadClaus, so he put new modules under the tree for you! At first we have a new trail for advanced administrators. This includes Event Monitoring and Lightning Connect modules and the new Advanced Formulas module. This module explains advanced features […]
[Salesforce / Amazon Echo] Integrate Alexa with Salesforce
Among the #swag I got from my colleagues from their trip to DreamForce 15, there was a pearl: Amazon Echo, well known as Alexa. The first (funny) thing I wanted to do was to make it (her) speak italian, and believe me it was as fun as learning how to use the Alexa Skill Kit: […]
[Salesforce / Custom Settings] How and Why
This is a beginner’s guide to Custom Settings, that shows a practical way of using all the features they convey. For TL;DR people, this is the GitHub repository of the example. One of the greatest pros of the Force.com platform is the extraordinary quick development phase: even when you are under continous software development, you […]
[Salesforce / Lightning] Create your own Lightning Progress Bar
This is a repost from the article I wrote for the Salesforce Developer Blog. Have you ever wanted a progress bar in your linghtning app? I have and so I came up with a simple bootstrap library wrap up. Following the successful Lightning series, I’m going to show you how I’ve made a simple Lightning Component […]
[Salesforce / Trailhead / Winter16] The Lightning fever: follow the trailhead!
Excited about the latest Lightning Experience announcement? Me too but unfortunately it was published when I was on vacations without any internet connection, that’s why I read it days after its release, but I just thought “WOW!”. with great power comes great responsibility, and the guys at Salesforce.com knows it, so they created some cool […]
[Salesforce / Lightning Connect] Lightning Connect Custom Adapters and MongoDB
This is a repost of the article I published on Salesforce Developer Blog. Summer ’15 Platform Release brought us the awesome Lightning Connect Custom Adapters: you can connect to external data sources and use them as custom Salesforce Objects writing custom Apex code. After I read Introducing Lightning Connect Custom Adapters by Lawrence McAlpin, I […]
[Salesforce / Apex Formula] Help me testing my Apex Formula Algorithm!
a{color:red !important;} This is a call to arms! In the past months I have developed an implementation in Apex of Salesforce Formulas in order to have a way to use a formula result dynamically without the need to have a custom field on an object. It has been a huge work and a lot has […]
[Salesforce / Apex] Can I find out if the current user has access to a record?
Yes you can! And this is quite simple! Query the UserRecordAccess object to have instant access to the following informations about a record and an user: HasDeleteAccess: user has delete access on the record HasEditAccess: user has edit access on the record HasTransferAccess: user has transfer access on the record HasReadAccess: user has read access […]
[Salesforce / Trailhead] Trailhead MEGA RELEASE (DF15 Edition)
Dreamforce ’15 is coming and with it we expect awesome news from the event. I won’t be part of it, and this is a super duper sad thing (I REALLY wanted to watch the Foo Fighters live 🙁 ), but this does not stop me from following the event from home. If the online stuff […]