by Angela Black | Oct 22, 2016 | Salesforce.com
Business Requirement On user click of a link, we want to pass an ID to an Apex method. That Apex method then returns to us a URL string. We open a new window that loads that URL. Technical Problem We can call Apex methods and variables from Visualforce pages; however,…
by Runyon Colie | Oct 19, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Microsoft Dynamics
When Gartner, one of the world’s leading IT research and advisory firms, released its 2016 emerging technology hype cycle, it identified three key trends. One of these, unsurprisingly, was all about smarter technology – machine learning, virtual assistants,…
by Meredith Salget | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, Salesforce.com
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting as part of the Girlforce Skillshare about Salesforce Formulas along with my colleague, Beth Howard, and some other rad women in the Salesforce scene. I focused my presentation on Salesforce URL hacking using pv0. In this…
by Michael Philbrick | Oct 25, 2015 | Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce.com
With the release of Roll-up fields in Dynamics 2015 we can now compare the two platforms with respect to code-free aggregation. What is a roll-up? Simply put, it is a field that calculates values from related records. Examples include the total expected revenue from…
by Michael Philbrick | Oct 23, 2015 | Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce.com
In the last post we explored updating fields based on changes in the same entity’s form. Dynamics utilizes simple JavaScript that changes the value of a field. Salesforce achieves a similar effect through the use of a formula or calculated field. The end result…