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Salesforce.com - Why uploading of Apex class is not working?

I have an Apex class (controller) originally developed under Developer Edition and need to upload it to production which is Enterprise Edition. The upload fails with following message classes/RenewalController.cls(RenewalController):An error occurred on your page. package.xml(RenewalController):An object 'RenewalController' of type Ap...

How do I configure email notification on new case comment in salesforce.com?

In salesforce.com, I have a workflow that triggers when a new case comment is added via the self-service portal. The workflow rule updates the Case.Status field, which fires another workflow rule on the Case object itself. The end result is an email to the case owner that is notified that a new case comment has been added. However, I ...

Web-based document sharing for small organizations

In the past I have used nexo.com to share documents with sales, marketing, PR, and technical people for a small startup. But I wonder if there is a better solution to allow different types of geo-graphically dispersed workers to get to a variety of uploaded documents. I don't want to have to build or host this myself, and free or cheap i...

Does anyone know if the crossdomain policy file at salesforce.com has changed?

Suddenly my Flex Apps can no longer connect to salesforce.com via its API, I am getting a security sandbox violation. Login credentials are correct, I have tried them via a different means, and I have obfuscated them below. This was working fine earlier today and I have not been coding since then. Anyone else come across this or know ...

Does anyone know of a good salesforce.com SOQL resource?

I have been looking for a decent guide to salesforce.com's SOQL query language and a schema for their tables but I can't find anything that is remotely decent. Does anyone know how I would go about getting docs? ...

Login error connecting to salesforce.com from Flex

Has anyone suddenly encountered login errors from their users trying to connect to salesforce.com from a Flex app using as3salesforce.swc? I get the following error... password removed to protect the innocent... App Domain = null Api Server name = na3.salesforce.com _internalServerUrl = https://na3.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/14.0 l...

Force.com IDE - Eclipse Plugin doesn't work?

Hi, I'm new to Apex and have just downloaded Eclipse to get to work Eclipse SDK 3.3.2 I've followed the instructions on http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Force.com_IDE_Installation_for_Eclipse_3.3.x and have added the Remote site: http://www.adnsandbox.com/tools/ide/install/ but i get a dialog telling me "No features found on ...

Customising a Custom Objects panel on an Account details page (Salesforce)

I've created a custom object, I have it appearing automatically on the Account details page (think Quote example). But the quote only has a name column, how do I get it to show other fields? much like the opportunities panel on the account panel. Thanks ...

How can I sort/group Salesforce leads by geography ?

If I had lat/long data for all our leads in Salesforce, is there a way to write a query to group them, or say list all the leads within 10 miles of San Francisco, CA ? [EDIT: Clarification] I have thousands of leads with both a full address, and long/lats. I want to build a query on these leads that will give me all of the leads near Sa...

Salesforce - How to Deploy between Environments (Sandboxes, Live etc)

We're looking into setting up a proper deployment process. From what I've read there seems to be 4 methods of doing this. Copy & Paste -- We don't want to do this Using the "Package" mechanism built into the Salesforce Web Interface Eclipse Force IDE "Deploy to Server" option Ant Script (haven't tried this one yet) Does anyone have ...

Secret key authentication in salesforce.com

Is there a good way to do secret key authentication for http queries from a salesforce app to my own web server? In other words, I'd like to give each company that installs our application their own secret key. Then each http call the app makes to our server (whether json or just a link to a hosted iframe) would look something like this:...

What are salesforce.com and Apex like as an application development platform?

I have recently discovered that salesforce.com is much more than an online CRM after coming across a Morrison's Case Study in which they develop a works management application. I've been trying it out with a view to recreating our own Works Management system on the platform. My background is in Microsoft and .Net, and the obvious 1st ch...

SQL to SOQL Conversion (Salesforce.com SOQL)

Has any one done SQL to SOQL Conversion for Salesforce.com Objects? ...

Validating Dates in Javascript with Unusual Form Field Ids - Salesforce.com Web-To-Case Integration

Ok, I need help. This is my first question here. Background: I am working on a charity project, and my portion of the project is to build the Web-To-Case functionality with Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com, if you were unaware, gives its software away free to qualified non-profits. Anyway, the Web-To-Case feature in Salesforce.com ge...

Drupal-Salesforce with NuSOAP

We have a Drupal 6 application (PHP 5) using the Salesforce module for integration. Everything works great on our current server, but we are moving to a server which does not allow the PHP SOAP extension, which the Salesforce module relies upon. NuSOAP does work on the new server. From our initial effort, it's a very difficult task to p...

Add a new file location to the SalesForce File Selector Drop-down

I have written an apex class that will create a PDF quote and attach it to an opportunity. I'm trying to figure out how I can access those attachments when I go to send an email from within SalesForce and then click on Attach File. I want to figure out how to see another location in the drop-down show in the image above that has the ...

ID is not being Passed to Custom Controller from Email Template in SalesForce

I have created a component that is using a custom class. I added this component to an email template. When I try and load the template this is the error message I receive. List has no rows for assignment to SObject. From what I can tell the attribute I have created is not passing the value to my class. Also, when I first pull up the t...

Best practices for web service integration with sales force?

I am looking to integrate with sales force, hence looking at different ways on their network of resources. I am looking to build this webservice on .Net platform. I am looking at simple fetch services. Best practices along with code samples are welcome. ...

Salesforce Refresh Error Entity of type 'WorkflowFieldUpdate' Not found

Refresh error: Entity of type 'WorkflowFieldUpdate' named 'Case.ISHERE' not found Project/src package.xml line 1 1248190153153 205 any ideas what this means? It's stopping us from deploying, as workflows don't appear on the deployment candidate list in Eclipse. The fieldUpdates, definitely do exist in the Sanbox, wh...

How to transition from OO development to Web-Development?

I just graduated last year and I landed a job in the CRM space, specifically with Salesforce.com and its respective platform. My problem is that there are 2 languages used to do things on this platform one is relatively similar to java and is OO the other is a web-development language similar to js, but not quite. I come from a java ba...