In one of our last posts “PDF Export in Salesforce“, we described how to download data in PDF format in Salesforce. Now we will be describing how to download data in excel format as promised in our previous blog. On the same pattern as PDF; contentType=”application/vnd.ms-excel#Export.xls” is the tag used to download the salesforce page… Read More: Excel Export in Salesforce »
As Salesforce developers, we know that salesforce has the feature to render a page into PDF format using renderAs=”pdf” in <apex:page> tag feature. Few days back we had gone through a situation where we wanted to allow users to enter input and based on that input PDF document should be downloaded without redirecting to another… Read More: PDF Export in Salesforce »
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: Changing the date range in standard Salesforce Calendar »
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: Get Key Prefix/Object id of Object in JavaScript »
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: SOQL Injections in Salesforce »
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: Mapping custom lead fields to standard contact fields »
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: Overriding standard visual page styling in Salesforce »
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: Mapping Custom Lead Fields in Salesforce »
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: Assign custom object permissions to Standard User in Salesforce »
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: Calling SOQL Query from JavaScript for validation of Account Name… »
