Tag: Force.com

[Salesforce / Trailhead] The beginning of your Force.com journey

a{color:red !important;} Few days ago the Salesforce team released 4 new Trailhead modules, and I decided finally to have a look at it…with my style. What is my style? I may say “all in” or “all or nothing” style. I decided to do all the modules and see which topics were covered (and how deeply). […]

[Salesforce] My favorite Spring ’15 features

a{color:red !important;} h3{color:red !important;} This is my top 10 list of the Spring ’15 Force.com platform update’s features. Make Long-Running Callouts from a Visualforce Page This is a really important feature. Imagine you have big VisualForce pages in which Apex methods, triggered by buttons / links / rerenders, do one or more callouts to external […]

[Salesforce] Practical guide to setup a LiveAgent

I’ve created a simple guide to set up a Live Agent on an ORG with a custom console app. This is the link: Live_Agent_base_configuration.pdf . This is a really simple guide believe me and no further explaination is given, beucase the only aim is to make Live Agent working. Let me know what you think! […]

[NodeJS + Salesforce SOAP WS] How to consume a Salesforce SOAP WSDL

I was wondering how to consume Salesforce WSDLs with nodejs. I found Node Soap package (see npm) and I tried to consume a Partner WSDL. Then I saved the WSDL in the “sf-partner.wsdl” file and played with the methods to get nodeJS speak SOAP with Salesforce. var soap = require(‘soap’); var url = ‘./sf-partner.wsdl’; soap.createClient(url, […]

[Salesforce / Canvas / NodeJS] Set up a minimum Canvas App (NodeJS style)

Following the old post [Salesforce / Canvas] Set up a minimum Canvas App (Java style) I’ve decided to put togheter the code I’ve used to talk to a Force.com Canvas App in NodeJS. For those who can’t wait the whole article, this is the repo (CanvasApp-NodeJS-Base). Follow this steps to configure an App (something is […]