It is possible to use images for different records of a Salesforce object to draw the user’s attention to a specific record. Let us take an example of the Case object in Salesforce. We can use different flags to define different priorities of any case. Looking at the flags will allow the users to immediately… Read More: Adding flags to records in an object »
A new feature released by Salesforce in the Spring’14 release allows the user to view all currently active sessions in Salesforce. This is a very helpful feature that allows the administrator (or anyone with View Setup and Configuration setting enabled) to view list of all the currently active users in the Salesforce organization. This feature… Read More: View all currently active sessions in a Salesforce Organization »
While working with Salesforce custom objects, we inserted a bunch of records in that object during testing. We wanted to bulk delete the records from the custom object using the standard Salesforce view screen that is shown below – However, we can only delete one record at a time using this screen. It is not… Read More: Delete multiple records from custom object in Salesforce »
There are certain situations when the administrator of a salesforce organization would like to prevent any user from logging in to the salesforce organization. This can happen when the administrator wants to perform some maintenance in the organization. The administrator would not want any user to log in at this time. The other case is… Read More: Freezing Salesforce users »
We had a requirement to add client side validation on Apex Command Button but the page was getting redirected after successful validation. So, we tried the following JavaScript code to prevent the page redirection but it didn’t work.We then found a solution to stop redirection by adding the following code at the Command Click Event.… Read More: Prevent page redirection on Apex Command Button through JavaScript »
In our last blog post “Prevent Salesforce Emails from ending up in Spam Folder”, we had written about the things we can do to prevent emails sent from salesforce from landing in the spam folder. One of them was requesting the receiver to whitelist all the Salesforce.com IP addresses. Salesforce.com uses 52 IP addresses to… Read More: Testing Deliverability of an Email sent from Salesforce »
One common problem organizations with salesforce face is emails goes in spam folder when sending emails to clients. This ends up email in the Spam folder and the client misses out on their emails. Even though it is not completely possible to avoid salesforce emails from ending up in the spam folder, there are certain things… Read More: Prevent Salesforce Emails from ending up in Spam Folder »
If you are working on Salesforce sessions day in and day out, it sometimes becomes irritating when you have to log in every time after your session expires. The session timeout is a security feature provided by Salesforce to prevent an unauthorized person from accessing your account. However, if the user wants to extend this… Read More: One link directs login to Salesforce »
Salesforce has started rolling out the Spring 14 release and it is expected to reach all Salesforce systems by the 3rd week of April. One of the features that have been added to the latest release is the ability to hide footers that are displayed in the exported salesforce reports. Those using the standard salesforce… Read More: Removing the footer in Salesforce Reports »
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: Calculating the time taken between two dates »
