The API for Salesforce is a web service, you set it up by downloading a WSDL file from Salesforce and adding the WSDL to your .NET project. But I can't find anywhere to set the Timeout value. Normally in a .NET Web Service there is a Timeout property for this (as described in this question), but I can't seem to find one in this case. ...
Hello. Lately I've been looking at force.com which happens to be SalesForce.com's cloud initiative. However, what I am unable to draw is its comparison with Amazon & Azure platforms. Force.com seems to be targeting Enterprises primarily, so I am not sure if as a small shop, I should be going that way. Mine is going to be a social network...
So in one part of our customised Salesforce system, the following happens: a trigger changes the value of a picklist on a custom object a Workflow rule detects that change and fires off an email. Since about the 4th of December though, it seems to have stopped working. edit: The Debug Logs show that the trigger is firing and changing...
I'm having strange results with a Visualforce page (yes, Salesforce.com is icky, I know). My issue is that I am trying to use the inputField to bind data on a custom sObject, but in my custom controller, it is not recognizing the user input data. Here is the code snippet from the page: <apex:pageBlockSection title="Enter New Fee" ren...
I have an email template that I would like to launch from within the case using a Link/Button. I see the option under setup->customize->cases->button and links I even see where I need to place the URL. What I don't see is nay documentation on how to build the URL to launch an email template. Any help you be great ...
I need to access the data types of the fields in a Salesforce.com object in order to identify each phone, fax, email, and mail field in an object. I've done this from SFDC web services with the DescribeSObject call but the Apex DescribeFieldResult.getType method only returns the display type of the field, not the actual data type. For ...
I have a picklist with three values and a text area that has three values as well, but I would like to correlate one value from the picklist with one value of the text area. Any thoughts as on how I can do this? ...
Since the onchange event is broken for lookup widgets in Salesforce, has anyone come up with a suitable workaround? The thing seems to have been broken for at least 3 releases, which simply boggles the mind. My desired use is to have the change detected so when a field is selected by the user, I populate another list or related objects...
I'm investigating options for reporting on data in a custom salesforce application, since the built-in reporting tool is a bad joke. The requirements are that the data needs to be accessible on-demand through the Salesforce website (likely through a web-tab, visualforce page, etc.), and must be able to do arbitrary joins of the tables,...
I am currently integrating Salesforce and our customer heavily uses fax for marketing. Salesforce ships with phone and email support. I was looking for fax integrations for salesforce but couldn't find any. ...
Hello, I'm new to VisualForce, as you will obviously recognize by the following. How would one convert a jsp page into an apex page? I've included some of the most common code that I will have to deal with and need the apex equivalent. I cannot find a decent tutorial or howto and I'm not having too much luck from the VisualForce devel...
Looking at ditching Vertical Response. Love MailChimp but appears not to be fully integrated with Salesforce. Anyone that has gone through it and could discuss? Thanks! ...
My question relates to aes 256 bit encryption in browser post. I want to integrate an intranet application with salesforce and want the data transfer between them should be aes 256 bit encrypted so that the client gets utmost security. Can anyone give me ideas as to how it can be implemented? the integration b/w them will also be through...
I am developing a Java application which will query tables which may hold over 1,000,000 records. I have tried everything I could to be as efficient as possible but I am only able to achieve on avg. about 5,000 records a minute and a maximum of 10,000 at one point. I have tried reverse engineering the data loader and my code seems to b...
Background: I'm building a small application that will be run daily, pulling data from our own in-house databases and sending it over to our corporate Salesforce instance. I've built a custom object (called Marqui_Instance) in our Salesforce instance to house the data. The app will be creating a couple hundred of these, and attaching t...
I have a page with a form that posts to salesforce.com's webto Lead service. I am trying to make an ajax version of this using jQuery. Though the form in the page posts fine and I receive the data in my salesforce, Once I make an identical post structure to this form and then post with jQuery I get a 405. Any help with this would be gr...
Sometimes in Salesforce tests you need to create User objects to run part of the test as a speciifc type of user. However since the Salesforce Summer 08 update, attempts to create both User objects and normal objects (such as Accounts) in the same test lead to the following error: MIXED_DML_OPERATION, DML operation on setup object ...
Salesforce has some built in meta-data fields to describe each Field of each Object. e.g. you can record a Description and Help Text value for each field. Is there any way to record more information? e.g. If I want to record notes about each field that are relevant to developers but not to users? Or if I want to flag a field as 'no lon...
UPDATE: It's working as expected just needed to pass the correct Id, DUH!~ I have a custom object in salesforce, kind of like the comments section on a case for example. When you add a new comment it has a date/time stamp for that entry, I wanted to update the previous case comment date/time stamp when a new case comment is created. I ...
UPDATE: OK I figured it out, looks like fread has a filesize limitation, changed this to file_get_contents('php://input') , but now having SF give a java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out error and nothing on the PHP side. I have also added set_time_limit(0); to the PHP script which if I understand correctly execute the scri...