How To: Audit Record Views in Salesforce [Credit: Machine Readable People]

Let me start this post with a huge, bold-fonted, shout-it-from-the-rooftops disclaimer so that there can be no doubt about the true brains behind this week’s How To… THIS IS ALL THE WORK OF SOMEONE ELSE AND IF YOU WANT TO THANK ANYONE FOR IT THEN YOU SHOULD THANK THEM AND NOT ME, AND I GET NO Read more about How To: Audit Record Views in Salesforce [Credit: Machine Readable People][…]

How To: Create Roll Up Summaries using Flow – Part 2

As promised and continuing on from my previous post on Creating Roll Up Summaries using Flow, I want to offer up one solution for recalculating Project Total Time on Delete of Time Entry records. Remember the last time? We showed how to use creations and edits of Time Entry records to calculate a rolled-up Total Time, Read more about How To: Create Roll Up Summaries using Flow – Part 2[…]

How To: Convert Leads with Pending Workflow Actions

Does the above error look familiar? If not, I envy you! For those of us who have set up an awesome time-based workflow on the lead object, only to find out later that leads with pending workflow actions cannot be converted, it can be very frustrating. Here’s just one recent example from the Answers community: Sure, an admin Read more about How To: Convert Leads with Pending Workflow Actions[…]

An arsenal of usefulness, no developer should leave home without!

New entrants into the Salesforce ecosystem can be forgiven for not knowing Bob Buzzard (aka Keir Bowden). But once you start developing on the force.com platform you naturally end up on the developer boards which is where you find Bob, sorry Keir endlessly answering posts and mentoring the community. The sheer number of posts he Read more about An arsenal of usefulness, no developer should leave home without![…]

Hacking with the Force.com – November 2013

Every couple of months, the Salesforce DUG runs mini hack events during the week. Yes, any old excuse for pizza, beers and some coding. Having missed the last one due to the arrival of my new son Ace, this was top of my priority list and also another excuse to nose around Cloud Sherpas’ new Read more about Hacking with the Force.com – November 2013[…]