The Standard Salesforce calendar allows the user to select only a limited number of years from the dropdown list i.e. it shows limited years in the year dropdown. If the user wants to select the dates prior to the date or after the date available in the dropdown then he has to manually enter the… Read More »
Few days back, while working on a project we needed to have a Key Prefix of our Object called Client__c in our JavaScript code for further processing. We didn’t want to hard code Key Prefix of Client__c. The reason is that when we deploy our package for different Organizations, Key Prefix would automatically get created.… Read More »
SOQL Injection is the breach of our application security which is dangerous for our valuable data. This happens because preventive measures are not taken into consideration when we write our SOQL queries for any DML operation. When the queries are formed dynamically with front end input, user can use backend queries differently to get the… Read More »
In one of our last posts “Mapping custom lead fields in Salesforce”, we described how we can use the standard salesforce functionality to transfer the custom lead field to custom opportunity field when converting a lead to an account-contact-opportunity [ACO]. Sometimes we may want to transfer the data that is in a custom lead field… Read More »
Recently we had a requirement in which our client wanted us to remove the standard padding across the visualforce page. The visualforce page has an inbuilt CSS that applies padding of about 10px across the page. A visualforce page with the default padding is as shown below: As you can see in above screenshot, the… Read More »
Salesforce provides a feature, using which users can directly convert Lead into Account-Contact-Opportunity [ACO]. Sometimes, user may have some custom fields in lead object and want information in this field to be transferred to ACO, once the lead has been converted. Most users simply create the same custom field of Lead in ACO and expect… Read More »
One of the key tasks of Salesforce administrator is to assign custom object permissions to the standard Users in Salesforce. One can simply assign a user with administrator rights and can avoid the trouble of assigning privileges to different user groups. However, this would mean providing users with unrestricted access, which could potentially lead to… Read More »
Recently, we had a requirement from one of our clients, wherein they wanted a page where user had to enter the Account Name. We were required to validate that account name and then do further processing. In below code snippets, we are checking if the Account name entered by the user is valid by querying… Read More »
