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populating a flex combobox with picklist values

i’ve had some requests concerning filling flex combobox’s with picklist values returned from a describe call…

running a trigger via workflow

Those of you who follow Steve Andersen’s blog may have seen his post re: cron jobs using Apex in April 2007. Kudos to you, Steve for a fantastic post (better late than never!) not only because of its universal application, but also because it got me thinking of other roundabout ways of utilizing Apex.
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visualizing workflow

When clients illustrate complex business processes with a seemingly endless cast of layers, players, deadlines, and notifications I cringe, not because of Salesforce.com’s inability to handle these types of processes (Salesforce.com’s workflow capabilities are exceptional), but being a visual person I’m well-aware of Salesforce.com’s inability to provide visual representation of workflow.  As a solution, I [...]

code coverage errors in the Force.com ide

This is a frustration of mine when using the Eclipse-based Force.com IDE. Even when effective code coverage has been reached, I’m still stuck with code coverage errors in the Problems pane. Obviously, this is merely an annoyance, but something that should be addressed. Is there an Eclipse function that will flush error [...]