Decoding Salesforce

Decoding Salesforce

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AppEx Data Loader 8 Issue

There appears to be an issue with AppExchange Data Loader 8; even though you specify the proxy server it cannot connect to Salesforce.com, the error you may get is: "Failed to send request to https://www.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/8.0". There should be no problems if you connect without passing through a proxy server. In the meantime you can download AppExchange Data Loader 7 from here, until version 8 is fixed. Update: Data Loader ...

Play with Custom Links: Part 1

From Salesforce's Help&Training: "Your organization's Administrator can set up Custom Links for Home, Campaigns, Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, Cases, Contracts, Solutions, Products, Assets and Users. These Custom Links allow your organization to link salesforce.com data with your back-end office systems. They can be directed to external URLs or to your company's intranet. In addition, the administrator can specify fields to be included as tokens within the URL. For ...

Salesforce’s URL Structure

UPDATE: Public apologies to Mike Schinkel, this post was inspired by Mike's "URL Structure". I decided to write a similar post to include the full list of known instances, mine wasn't certainly a way to get credit for something you wrote first Mike! Sorry! :) Finally found the structure to delete a record in SF, adding it below. Eoin Here's a quick introduction to understand the structure of all the ...

SFDCMe

UPDATE: This project has been discontinued; will try to come up with some improved bookmarklets soon, stay tuned :) The goal of SFDCMe is to implement a few, useful bookmarklets to avoid Salesforce.com Support Reps spending a ridiculous amount of time clicking here, there. This project, and the associated code, are the developed by me, and are not officially supported, associated or endorsed by Salesforce.com. You can find the bookmarklets ...

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