15 Jun 2008
Written by Eoin — Tagged with: Apex
Following on from my previous post.
Below is what you'll need to get started developing with Apex.
A salesforce.com Developer Edition Account:
Sign up from the developer site developer.force.com
Apex Documents: (language reference)
Available from the Developer Wiki, Apex and Visualforce Section.
The Force.com IDE
Just follow the steps on the site to set it up.
A basic understanding of Object Oriented Programming.
Personally I've done some C and Visual Basic programming in college but not ...
5 May 2008
Written by Eoin — Tagged with: Script, Visualforce
Ok, so, I've been poking around at Visualforce a little in my spare time and I came across this tutorial on how to create a tabbed Account page on the Salesforce Developer site.
Check it out! Tabbed browsing within records in salesforce, this should help tidy up some of those annoyingly long Page Layouts.
I've implemented this in my Developer Org and it Looks great, I can't wait until Visualforce ...
25 Apr 2008
Written by Eoin — Tagged with: Apex, Script, Structure, Visualforce
Hi Everyone! Sorry for the long absence from posting.
Where have I been I hear you ask, as the title of the post suggests, I've been lost in the "The World of Apex", as I like to call it.
What is Apex? Apex is salesforce.com's on demand programming language, it's similar to Java in its syntax but differs in some important ways; you can get all the info on the ...
16 Feb 2007
Written by Eoin — Tagged with: Formulas, Validation Rules
UPDATE: As you can see we received a comment to this post from Eric Bezar from Salesforce.com; they said that this is an exploitation of a bug in the application and it can not be guaranteed to work in the long term. In other words don't use this method. Daniel gave a very good workaround if you run into this problem: you can use a workflow field update ...
10 Jan 2007
Written by Eoin — Tagged with: Formulas, Validation Rules
Leading on from my last post I'm going to go into further detail of building your validation rules.
Step 1: Understanding formulas
First off you need to understand the basics of building formulas in salesforce. To do this I'd start looking at all the help and training information on formulas which salesforce already provide, this can easily be found by going to the Help & Training Link in salesforce and ...
8 Jan 2007
Written by Eoin — Tagged with: Formulas, Validation Rules
With the upcoming Winter'07 release of salesforce there is one of my favourite new features being added. However it comes at a price, that price being the fact that you have to write formulas. The feature I'm talking about is Validation Rules these allow admins to specify formulas which limit what a user can enter into a field in salesforce.
This useful feature also allows admins to specify a ...
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