Live Twitter Gadget For Accounts

Wow, it’s been quite a while, but I’m finally back to let you know about a new app from Mavens on the Salesforce.com AppExchange. “Live Twitter Gadget For Accounts” is a nifty Salesforce/Twitter mashup that does not require a Twitter account. In a nutshell, it allows you to set keywords on your Salesforce [...]

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

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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