There are times where you may need to access fieldsets in APEX to dynamically generate pages in Visualforce. In Apex, there are 2 main ways to do this, and you can select which approach you need based on what data you have available at runtime. Getting Fieldsets in Visualforce You can access fieldsets directly from a […]
There’s an app on the Salesforce Appexchange called “Field Trip” that is great for cleaning up your objects. Basically, you can run an analysis against any object in your org and see how often your fields are being populated. This is great when you are coming close to field limits, or just want to remove […]
Here’s an example of using URL hacking to pre-populate fields in a form on Salesforce. The following can be set as a button action, or href on a page link that will pass parameters for whatever field I specify. This example is from a button on Opportunity that opens a Case with the Account and […]
Business Scenario: You want to be able to track many assets to many cases, and vice versa. The scenario could apply to any two objects, but I find that cases typically works the best to illustrate this point. You may have many cases that reference a specific Asset or other type of Object owned by […]
Business Scenario: As a user, you want to spend less time filling out forms and spend more time creating value. You want your users to be able to see all of the important information on one screen instead of having to flip from page to page to find things like Customer names, phone numbers, Opportunities, […]
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