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 ...
In my last post I explained how to build a simple web custom link; more complex custom links can be used to pass data from your Salesforce records, user information, or company information to another website or application; it can also be used to pass variables from one Salesforce object to another. Let's see how to create a custom link to pass fields values from a Salesforce object to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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