One of the most interesting new features in Salesforce Summer ’13 is Chatter Actions. This feature lets you build out specific functionality that’s accessible directly from the Chatter feed. An example of this might be to give a user the ability to create a Contact from their Chatter feed. An Action can be set to […]
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Display Inaccessible Objects to (Salesforce) Portal Users
Code Sample Salesforce Consulting TechnologyIt’s quite late, and I can’t think of anything particularly clever to say, so I’ll just get straight to the point. If you’ve ever built a custom portal using Salesforce Sites then you’ve most likely had to navigate your way through the various portal licenses at some point. Let’s see, there’s a Customer Portal, a […]
Summer ’11 Master-Detail Quirk [UPDATED]
Code Sample Salesforce Consulting Technology*****UPDATE June 30, 2011****** Shortly after this post I was contacted by Salesforce’s Apex product manager who wanted to follow up on this issue and help resolve it. Major kudos to Salesforce for monitoring the blogosphere and addressing the problems of their partners and customers. After spending some time trying to recreate this problem the […]
Will Database.com Handle Big Data?
Salesforce Consulting TechnologyI’m really looking forward to next week’s sneak peek webinar of Salesforce’s new DaaS (database-as-a-service) appropriately named Database.com. Salesforce is touting the new service as the premiere cloud database for enterprises “that is designed for the next generation of collaborative, mobile and real-time apps.” The question I have is will Database.com give any real or […]
Klout + Salesforce = Identify Your Social Influencers
Code Sample Marketing Salesforce Consulting TechnologyAs these things often do, this project came about as I was searching for the solution to a problem. I couldn’t find anything that worked so I decided to try and solve it myself. The Use Case I was working with one of our clients on a Salesforce implementation and since they’re very active on […]