In our last blog post, “Quick way to find edition of Salesforce” we had described how we could quickly find the edition of the Salesforce instance. In this post, we would be describing how a user can quickly find the release of the Salesforce instance. As you might know, Salesforce provides three product releases every… Read More »
There are currently five editions of the Salesforce.com cloud. They are Group, Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited and Performance Edition. The features and pricing for the editions vary and the complete details of features as well as pricing for the editions can be found here. While working on a Salesforce system, we may need to know the… Read More »
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 »
Once we had a requirement wherein we wanted to send an email and the content of that email was from multiple objects. Here is the code snippet that we can use for sending email from Apex code using Single Email. There is however a limitation in using Single Email functionality, you can send only 1,000… Read More »
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 »
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 »
A lot of times it happens that an organization has outdated information of its contacts.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 »
Salesforce has a basic wizard to add fields in an object but it is a time consuming process when we are planning to add multiple fields per object (e.g. more than 15 fields).There is another process called as “Schema Builder”. By using the Schema Builder, user can easily add fields in a short span of… Read More »
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 »
