Category Archives: Salesforce Services

Mass Email Salesforce Users

Our GUMU™ SAGE ERP Integration for Salesforce (Sage 100, Sage X3/EM and Sage 300) is a real-time bi-directional link. Using GUMU™ user can synch data between Salesforce to Sage ERP and vice versa. Salesforce provides a very useful feature of mass emailing all the users. This can come in handy whenever an administrator wishes to send out a message or… Read More: Mass Email Salesforce Users »

Trailhead – A new way to learn Salesforce

Salesforce earlier started a new tool on developer community named “Trailhead”. Currently, this is in beta mode and Salesforce is adding more features into it. What is “Trailhead”? Trailhead has broken down the Salesforce 1 platform into various sections known as “modules” and these are further divided into units so that one can learn those… Read More: Trailhead – A new way to learn Salesforce »

GUMU™ Sage 100 ERP Integration (Lite) now on Salesforce AppExchange

This is in continuation to our last GUMU Sage ERP – Salesforce CRM introduction post. In this post we will talk about our Lite version of the integration which is free (for first 6 months) and available for download from the Salesforce AppExchange using the link given below. Please email us on salesforce@greytrix.com and we… Read More: GUMU™ Sage 100 ERP Integration (Lite) now on Salesforce AppExchange »

Get key prefix of an object using Apex

Every record in Salesforce has an ID which is used to uniquely identify the record. Each ID value is globally unique. The first three digits represent the object type. For example, the Account object uses the 001 prefix; the Note object uses the 002 prefix, Contact uses 003, Users 005, Opportunity 006 etc. We can… Read More: Get key prefix of an object using Apex »

Delete apex class or trigger in Salesforce Production Org

It is not possible to directly delete an Apex class or trigger after it has been deployed to production. A quick workaround to delete or disable Apex Class/Trigger is by using eclipse and Force.com IDE. Here are the steps – Download Force.com IDE. Connect to the salesforce production org. Download the apex class/trigger. Open the… Read More: Delete apex class or trigger in Salesforce Production Org »

Quick way to find out the release of Salesforce Instance

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: Quick way to find out the release of Salesforce Instance »

Quick way to find edition of Salesforce

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: Quick way to find edition of Salesforce »

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: DateTime field and Time Zone Settings in Salesforce »

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: Consuming External Web Service in Apex »