Category Archives: Salesforce Services

DateTime field and Time Zone Settings in Salesforce

Recently, for one of our integration programs we were trying to pass data from our datetime field to the Salesforce datetime field.  We were passing Date as “2014-01-02 00 00 000” but while viewing the same record in the Salesforce User Interface it was displaying the date as “2014-01-01 8 PM”. This posed a big… Read More »

Consuming External Web Service in Apex

While developing applications in force.com, there may be a requirement where we will need to consume external web service. There are many external websites which provide service and which can be consumed from our applications. One of the features we have in Salesforce is that we can easily consume External Web Services. Greytrix Releases First… Read More »

Create Button for List View

Salesforce provides some built in buttons while showing the list of records. Similarly we can add additional buttons for our custom functionality. We had a requirement wherein we needed to validate the records in the list with external web services. For this we created a custom button in the list view so that when the… Read More »

Request updated information from Salesforce contacts

A lot of times it happens that an organization has outdated information of its contacts. Salesforce provides a useful Stay-in-Touch Requests feature using which the administrator or someone who owns a contact can send an email to the contact requesting to provide updated contact details. To request updated information, follow the below steps – Navigate… Read More »

Mass Transfer Custom Object Records from One User to Another

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 »

Make Custom Object available for Salesforce Report

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 »