archive for salesforce

new look for the approval history related list

just noticed this…is this new in Summer ‘08?

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 [...]

enhance recent items…please?

As a heavy Salesforce.com user/developer/consultant, there are many times when I’m cycling through custom objects, workflow rules, apex triggers, and reports in an org and I’d like to be able to follow my progress in the sidebar via the recent items section.  I’d really like the ability to customize the recent items section to toggle [...]

summer ‘08 release schedule

trust.salesforce.com

get on my cloud

Hello and welcome to joe-ferraro.com. As you might expect, my name is Joe Ferraro.  I’m a SaaS developer/consultant in Washington, DC.  I’m especially fond of Force.com development and I’ll be using this blog to post best practices, examples of native Salesforce.com apps, and other interesting utilizations of the platform.  Feel free to contact me with [...]