While working on a project we had to display the time difference between two field values. We had two date fields where the user could enter a start date and end date for a task. We had to display the total time taken between the start date and end date in a separate field. We… Read More »
Whenever the administrator of a salesforce organization changes the email address of any user, the user receives a notification in the previous email address informing them of the change. In addition to this, an email is sent to the new address asking for confirmation. It is only after the user accepts the change by clicking… Read More »
We had a custom object that had a lookup relationship between the Account and Contact Object. Using the standard layout of the custom object, users can enter their Account ID and Contact ID using the lookup. But the lookup to the Account object and Contact object also has a ‘New’ button apart from the ‘Go’… Read More »
As you know, Eclipse is a nice IDE for developing Apex code. A few days back we were working on Apex side coding and after a lot of coding, I wanted to indent my code. I tried a lot to indent the code in Apex Code Editor but in vain. Finally, I had to change… Read More »
Earlier we had posted a couple of blogs on the export features in Salesforce. They are Excel Export in Salesforce and PDF Export in Salesforce. In these blogs, we have provided information on how to export the data in Excel and PDF format. While exporting the data to pdf or Excel format some name is… Read More »
It may sometimes become necessary to edit the Visualforce page link of a Visualforce tab. When the user goes to Setup -> Create -> Tabs and edits a Visualforce tab, they are able to change only the label of the Visualforce custom tab. The content or the page is non-editable in the Salesforce UI. You… Read More »
Few days back, we had created a custom page in salesforce wherein we were not using any salesforce control to show the record but some other JavaScript grid to show the records. Here we observed that while opening the Salesforce app menu, the menu overlapped with the grid that we had used. The menu works… Read More »
In our previous blog post “Transaction aborted: timeout error in Salesforce“, we had written that changing the timeout parameter in JSRemote call from Visualforce page can help avoid the timeout error issue. But occasionally even after increasing the timeout parameter, the timeout error appears for a couple of times due to the fact that sometimes… Read More »
In one of our projects in force.com, we have been using the JS remote action calls many a time for custom reporting purpose. While testing, sometimes we face an issue and the error message displayed is “Unable to connect to the server (transaction aborted: timeout)”. This error occurs randomly and only sometimes. New Stuff: View Records… Read More »
We have an object that holds some records and those records are not visible in any visualforce tab. In certain cases, the developer wants to see those records while doing the development in Force.com. There are tools available that can be used to see the records for any object. e.g. Eclipse, Force.com Explorer etc. Instead… Read More »
