The Winter’14 release of Salesforce provides some new features and enhancements. One of them is the enhanced search on lookups. In the Summer’13 version of Salesforce, it was only possible to search something using the name field. The lookup search window in Summer’13 is as shown below – New Stuff: Set the click event of button… Read More »
Sometime ago we had a client requirement wherein we had to perform a button click operation when the user presses the enter button on a visual force page. In a normal visualforce page, there is no specific way to define a button to be pressed while pressing the enter key. New Stuff: SOQL Query on combination… Read More »
Few days back, we had a requirement in one of our projects wherein we needed to list the records based on summation of two fields of an object. We tried to use SOQL query to filter the records, but we found that SOQL query of salesforce natively does not allow the arithmetic operation of two… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
