lookup –> picklist

I’ve had several clients “voice concerns” about Salesforce.com’s lookup functionality relative to user acceptance. Well, if you’re dealing with a relatively simple lookup table, you can override an object’s new/edit page with a Visualforce page and display the lookup field to the user as a picklist.

extjs & visualforce (part 2), JSON this time

Let me preface this post by stating that the following is merely a proof of concept and should not necessarily be implemented into a production org. The pagination demonstrated below is not fit for large datasets and may result in unexpected behavior!
Rich Waters’ comment on my first post re: Ext JS & [...]

system log trick

If you’ve ever used the system log in Salesforce, surely you’ve run into some code formatting issues. Fortunately, there’s a Firefox extension out there that will allow you to insert tabs in text areas. Now, I can actually tell what I’m doing in the system log.

hth

wrapper class and force.com sites

Force.com Sites was announced last week at Dreamforce ‘08 and what a game changing announcement it was. Here’s my foray into Sites development, with nifty sample code…

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…