Back to the Sobject Crusade list. Source: Account Account object is the very first object you’ll see on the CRM, mostly because it is the first standard object tab you are presented when you open up a new Developer ORG: The Account object represents an organization or a person that is involved in your business […]
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The Sobject Crusade: AccountCleanInfo
Back to the Sobject Crusade list. Source: AccountCleanInfo This object is related to Data.com features (access to a big DB of accounts and contacts). To enable this on your Developer Org, click on Setup > Manage Users > Users and search for your user. Click on Edit button/link and update the Data.com User Type field: […]
[Salesforce / Streaming API / On Demand] Streaming API Notification Lightning Component
UPDATE: With Winter ’15 you no longer can use a lightning context Session ID to make REST API calls, this component no longer works. Read Session Privilege Levels. Few weeks ago I asked the community this simple question: The Salesforce Community is awesome and suddenly I had cool answers. I concentrated on the first one: […]
[Salesforce / Apex] Let’s play with Named Credentials and OAuth 2.0
Few days ago I was lurking in the Named Credentials configurations. What are named credentials? Here are the official docs. They are essentially a way to store callout configurations such as: Endpoint (only HTTPs endpoints are supported) Callout certificate (if needed, from the local key store) Authentication protocol (if needed) Authentication settings With named credentials […]
[Salesforce / Trailhead] Presenting the “Navigate the Salesforce Advantage” trail aka What is Salesforce?
This is a technical blog (“Nerd @ work” say it all) and I usually post exclusively technical stuff. But in the recent trailhead additions there is a special set of modules that basically answer the question “What is Salesforce and what’s the reason of its Success?” This is the Navigate the Salesforce Advantage trail and […]
[Salesforce / MVP] Yes guys, I’m a Salesforce MVP! And Thank you all!
Today I woke up and… BAAAMM! I’ve been nominated a Salesforce MVP: read the announcement from the Salesforce MVP blog. This is an honor and a motivation of pride for my carreer, and I know I have to thank the whole Force.com Community for this awesome achievement! This post is just to say thank you […]
[Salesforce / Visualforce] Handling Viewstate with Dynamic Visualforce components
I’ve written this post thanks to the help of my colleague Ivano Guerini who has found the solution to the problem I’m going to expose and written down the code you’ll see in this post. This post is about correctly handling the viewstate when dealing with Dynamic Visualforce Components. For those of you that have […]
[Salesforce / Git] Automate metadata backup with SF-Git
If you are a Salesforce nerd like me, I’m sure you have a lot of Developer Edition orgs with you and don’t want to loose a line of code. After months of inactivity the ORG could be freezed and your ORG get lost (or you know personally Marc Benioff and can ask him to revive […]
[Salesforce / Visualforce] Input Lookup Custom Component
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 […]
[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 […]