Note: once again, the grid below is a live Visualforce page from my developer Force.com site embedded into this post

public class Grid_Controller {
	public string store {get;set;}
	public list<QueueItem> queueitems {get;set;}
	string userId = UserInfo.getUserId();

	public Grid_Controller() {
		queueitems = new queueitem[]{};
		for (Custom_Process_Instance__c cpi : [Select Owner.Name, Opportunity__r.Name, Opportunity__r.Id, (Select Id From Custom_Process_Instance_Step__r where Status__c != 'Completed' AND Status__c = 'Pending' limit 1), Percent_Complete__c, Process_Age__c from Custom_Process_Instance__c where Status__c = 'Pending' AND Opportunity__c != null and IsDeleted = false order by CreatedDate asc]) {
            		QueueItem qi = new QueueItem(cpi);
            		queueitems.add(qi);
		}        

		string myDataString = 'var myData = [ ';
		for(queueitem q : this.queueitems) {
			string showIcon = '';
			if (q.ProcessInstance.Custom_Process_Instance_Step__r.size() == 1)
        			showIcon = 'yes';

			string oppId = q.ProcessInstance.Opportunity__c;
			string oppName = q.ProcessInstance.Opportunity__r.Name;
			string launchedby = q.ProcessInstance.Owner.Name;
			double percent = q.ProcessInstance.Percent_Complete__c;
			double ageInMinutes = q.ProcessInstance.Process_Age__c;

			if (q.ProcessInstance.Opportunity__r.Name != null)
				oppName = string.escapeSingleQuotes(q.ProcessInstance.Opportunity__r.Name);
			if (q.ProcessInstance.Owner.Name != null)
				launchedBy = string.escapeSingleQuotes(q.ProcessInstance.Owner.Name);

			myDataString += '[\''+showIcon+'\',\''+oppName+'\', \''+oppId+'\',\''+launchedBy+'\',\''+percent+'\',\''+ageInMinutes+'\'],';
		}

		myDataString += '];';
		myDataString = myDataString.replace(',];', '];');
		this.store = myDataString;
	}

	public class QueueItem {
		public Custom_Process_Instance__c ProcessInstance {get;set;}
		public QueueItem(Custom_Process_Instance__c cpi) {
			this.ProcessInstance = cpi;
		}
	}
}

<script type="text/javascript">
	var myDataString = document.getElementById('{!$Component.myForm.dataStore}').value;
</script>

<apex:form id="myForm">
	<apex:inputHidden value="{!store}" id="dataStore"/>
</apex:form>

if you’ve worked in several different instances of Salesforce.com from several different locations, surely you’ve run into roadblocks on Salesforce.com Security Boulevard (and yes, I know you can use a security token, but many times I’m using a client’s license and he/she will “inadvertently” reset the token and lock me out of the org).

when in a new location, I used to copy my external ip from whatsmyip.com. well, if you’re using os x, you can leverage Applescript to make this a bit less painful.

set response to do shell script "/usr/bin/curl http://checkip.dyndns.org/"
set ip_address to extract_ip(response)

set the Reply to display dialog "Your IP address is: " & ip_address
set the clipboard to ip_address

-- Function to extract ip from HTML returned by dydns.com
on extract_ip(this_text)
	set clean_ip to ""
	set this_char to ""
	repeat with this_char in this_text
		set this_char to the contents of this_char
		if the this_char is in {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "."} then
			set the clean_ip to the clean_ip & this_char as string
		end if
	end repeat
	return the clean_ip
end extract_ip

-- end script

if you’re using Butler, you can run this applescript with a hot key. so, whenever I need my external ip, I simply hold command + shift + i and my ip address is copied to my clipboard for handy paste into the trusted ip ranges.

hth.

I got the good old scheduled maintenance window message on na1 this week, but I didn’t expect it to be for the Winter ‘09 release. Kudos to SFDC for the early release (a month before Dreamforce).

Release Preview

Release Notes (pdf)

I got tired of logging into our Salesforce.com instance to log billable activities, so I developed this AIR app…is this something people would use?