Salesforce provides the ability to mass transfer records from one user to another user. This feature is currently available for some standard Salesforce objects like Accounts and Leads as well as all the custom objects. Only users with administrator rights can transfer records from one user to another user. To transfer the user, follow the… Read More »
The standard salesforce picklist field displays a None option at the top of the picklist options by default. We didn’t want to display this option on our picklist field. There is no direct way of removing the None option from the picklists. In order to do this, we had to make two changes. The first… Read More »
While working with reports in Salesforce, we wanted to create a custom object report in Salesforce. While trying to do this, we were unable to find the custom object in the Report Type Section. The solution is that we need to select the “Allow Reports” option in the Custom Object definition for that custom object.… Read More »
We had a trigger active and working fine for the past one year. This trigger would create a task and opportunity; as well as send an email based on certain business rules when the customer gave any kind of feedback online at the Salesforce portal. Some days back, we started getting the following error:This was… Read More »
It is possible to use images for different records of a Salesforce object to draw the user’s attention to a specific record. Let us take an example of the Case object in Salesforce. We can use different flags to define different priorities of any case. Looking at the flags will allow the users to immediately… Read More »
A new feature released by Salesforce in the Spring’14 release allows the user to view all currently active sessions in Salesforce. This is a very helpful feature that allows the administrator (or anyone with View Setup and Configuration setting enabled) to view list of all the currently active users in the Salesforce organization. This feature… Read More »
While working with Salesforce custom objects, we inserted a bunch of records in that object during testing. We wanted to bulk delete the records from the custom object using the standard Salesforce view screen that is shown below – However, we can only delete one record at a time using this screen. It is not… Read More »
There are certain situations when the administrator of a salesforce organization would like to prevent any user from logging in to the salesforce organization. This can happen when the administrator wants to perform some maintenance in the organization. The administrator would not want any user to log in at this time. The other case is… Read More »
We had a requirement to add client side validation on Apex Command Button but the page was getting redirected after successful validation. So, we tried the following JavaScript code to prevent the page redirection but it didn’t work.We then found a solution to stop redirection by adding the following code at the Command Click Event.… Read More »
In our last blog post “Prevent Salesforce Emails from ending up in Spam Folder”, we had written about the things we can do to prevent emails sent from salesforce from landing in the spam folder. One of them was requesting the receiver to whitelist all the Salesforce.com IP addresses. Salesforce.com uses 52 IP addresses to… Read More »
