I’ve just come through a bug on the Date field handling for Visual Force @RemoteAction. We want to pass to a remote action a list of SObjects to be handled correctly. This is the controller that hosts the @RemoteAction method: public class MyController(){ @RemoteAction public String doAction(List<contact> contacts){ return ‘All is ok!’; } } This […]
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[Salesforce / Mobile SDK] Salesforce Mobile SDK 3.1 brings unified app architecture
I left mobile development in the far 2010, when Salesforce development became my actual job. In the past 6 years I’ve gradually switched to web dev techs over native development, and this a kind of hurted my feelings, but it was a necessary path (I merged the passion for discovering new techs with learning something […]
[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 / JS] Download automatically files from apex (using href link and base64)
This post is a recap of this Salesforce Developer Forum thread. We want to trigger a download from an attachment but the running user don’t have access to the object (think of Community User for instance). In the controller read the Attachment’s body in a String getter coded in Base64: public String base64Value{get;set;} public String […]
[Salesforce / Lightning] Loading scripts with RequireJS
a{color:red !important;} UPDATE Due to the introduction of the ltng:require, this post is no more a valid solution. Refer to the official Lightning documentation. The following is a post that summarizes this blog post‘s solution (if you are not a TLDR; reader you will find there all my trials and errors). Dreamforce 2014 came out […]
[Salesforce / Apex] Retrieving zipped static resource files from code
Some days ago one of my awesome colleagues asked me: “Can you get a zipped file into a static resource from Apex?”. My very first thought was NO. But after having said that syllable, I understood that this could be possible, using an HTTP GET call + cookies + correct resource URL. This is the […]
[Salesforce / Apex] Queueable interfaces – Unleash the async power!
The next Winter ’15 release came with the new Queueable interface. I wanted to go deep on this, and tried to apply its features to a real case. If you are (like me) in a TLDR; state of mind, click here. The main difference between future methods (remember the @future annotation? ) and queueable jobs […]
[Salesforce / Lightning] Loading scripts
a{ color: red !important;} UPDATE Due to the introduction of the ltng:require, this post is no more a valid solution. Refer to the official Lightning documentation. This post has been more like a request for help, rather than a technical blog post, but it came to be an awesome way to see Salesforce community in […]
[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, […]