Creating custom Apex SOAP based on Web Services in Salesforce.com and accessing from Java Application

What Is SOAP API?

SOAP API is used to create, retrieve, update or delete records, such as accounts, leads, and custom objects. It supports data in the form of XML. Requires WSDL files for the integration.

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Three notable features of Salesforce1

Salesforce 1With Salesforce1 Salesforce.com has rebranded (and re-positioned) its development platform for its mobile readiness (mobile app) and integration capabilities. Salesforce 1 is a platform that will help software products vendors, developers to build mobile apps and integrate them with other apps quickly. With Salesforce1 even the administrators of Salesforce.com can create the simple mobile apps with just point and click customization – unlocking the power of mobile apps on Salesforce.com platform.

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Salesforce.com Visual Workflow Introduction (Force.com Flow)

Salesforce.com Visual Workflow allows customers to build ‘flows’, which guide users through screens for collecting and / or and updating data. They can also be used as an script in a Call Center Scenario. This article is an introduction or primer to Force.com Flow in a Q&A format.

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CXO’s Guide to Salesforce1

Whether you are a CIO, CSO, CEO (CxO) the announcement of the launch of Salesforce1 by Marc Benioff (Chairman & CEO of Salesforce) yesterday at Dreamforce must of interest to you. We have been told that it is a great new mobile platform with great potential. However a lot questions still remain unanswered about Salesforce1 which we will try to answer in this post. [Read more…]

How to Use Debug Logs in Salesforce to Troubleshoot

This article will show you how you can use “Debug Logs” in Salesforce.com to Troubleshoot?

What is Debug Log in Salesforce.com?

A debug log records data base operations, system process, and errors that occur when executing a transaction or while running unit tests. We can monitor specific users in Debug log by adding them to list of Monitored Users. [Read more…]

Displaying Total Number of Contacts for each Account in Salesforce

If you want to display the “Total Number of Contacts” for each “Account” in Salesforce on the Account page you can not use the Roll Up Summary field. The Roll Up Summary fields on contact are not supported on Accounts. We have used a Trigger on the contact object to  find the sum of the number of contacts which are there in an Account. [Read more…]

Apex and Visualforce syntax highlighting in Notepad++

If you prefer to write your Apex and Visualforce code outside Salesforce.com or Force.com IDE – you may find tough time in finding the right code editor. I have not come across any other code editor that supports programming languages Apex and Visualforce.

Considering the fast growth of programmers working on Apex and Visualforce I am sure very soon we will have code editor programs supporting the Apex and Visualforce. [Read more…]

Use Formula Field IMAGE function to highlight process status in Salesforce.com

Often customers want to highlight the status of process and alert  users to take corrective action before it is too late. There is nothing better than a visual field that gives you the process health – Red, Yellow or Green. This can be especially used to highlight the leads that are not acted upon or the opportunities that are stuck.

Use Formula Field IMAGE function to Highlight Process Status

Use Formula Fields to Highlight Process Status

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