Salesforce World - By Chamil

Most of the newbies in Salesforce ask these questions. "I have tried Salesforce stuff and I'm interested on Salesforce. Can I go for the Salesforce Admin Certification?" "How can I prepare for the Salesforce Admin certification?" "Should I go for Admin certification or Developer or App Builder?" "I don't have any technical or programming background. Can I go for it? Will it be suitable for me?" Well....If you have these questions or similar questions, you should continue your reading...  😇 For Whom? If you are involved as a Salesforce Administrator at your organization, then definitely, this is for you. Having some hands on experience in Salesforce administration, would give you a good confidence on clearing the certification. You should have expansive knowledge on customizing & configuring  Salesforce platform, managing users, and search for new ways of getting more out of features and capabilities. Why Salesforc...

I gained the Salesforce developer certification on 24th October 2012. Now, I'm a Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer. This post gives an overview of the exam and a few tips to hopefully assist others. I will not post any actual exam questions and answers. That will be cause to violate the test taker agreement that we all sign up to at the beginning of the exam and devalues the certification. The Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the objectives . A candidate should have hands-on experience developing custom applications on the Force.com platform. I post guidelines which gain from my experience of preparing DEV 401 exam. The starting point for the exam is the Study guide. First you need to have a understand about the format of the exam. Refer the following for exam format and how will you be tested. For more details, Refer the Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer Study Guide .  Applica...

All the users of Salesforce.com & Force.com are always access the latest Salesforce.com/Force.com version because Salesforce.com has comprehensive real time upgrade mechanism. It doesn't break our customizations and integrations. This real time upgrade mechanism allow us to feel the rapid and latest innovation. After the summer, It's time to welcome Salesforce.com Winter 13' release. Salesforce.com Winter '13 Release Note has been released. Winter 13' has lots of interesting and innovative new features. I'm listing some of main features here. Visualforce Charting - Generally available Visualforce Charting had release as a pilot feature in Winter 12’ release. Before, we had to use Google charts or Jquery or any other third party javascript libraries for create charts in a visualforce page. Now we don’t have to depend on them.  Salesforce.com has provided Visualforce charting as collection of components that provide a simple and intuitive way to...

What if I want to make a summary pop-up window when a user hovers over a link in a visualforce page. This Feature is easy in standard salesforce pages, mostly because it happens automatically. But not in visualforce pages. I have seen most of example for pop-up in salesforce were created using the output panels with some embedded styles.   Here I'm posting a pop-up example which show the details of a partuclar record on a mouseover using the Hover links similar to those used in standard Salesforce links.  /*visualforce page*/ <apex:page controller="PopupTest"> <apex:form > <apex:repeat value="{!accounts}" var="acc"> <br/> <a href="/{!acc.Id}" id="{!acc.Id}" onblur="LookupHoverDetail.getHover('{!acc.Id}').hide();" onfocus="LookupHoverDetail.getHover('{!acc.Id}', '/{!acc.Id}/m?retURL=%2F{!acc.Id}&isAjaxRequest=1').show(...

JavaScript remoting was released as a Developer Preview in Spring '11. In Summer '11, JavaScript remoting now supports additional return data types. Also, references to the same objects are no longer duplicated in the response. Javascript remoting is the process that provides support for some methods in APEX controllers to be called via Javascript. This is an interesting feature and it'll be a good move to the interactive and fast user interface creation in visualforce. I have mentioned about javascript remoting one of my previous post . There is a nice example about Javascript Remoting.

A sandbox is basically a replication of your Salesforce org you can use for development , testing, and training without disrupting your production environment. Sandboxes are completely isolated from your Salesforce production organization, so anything you do in your sandboxes will not affect your Salesforce production application, and vice-versa. Sandbox provides a set of tools that deliver real, tangible business benefits and it’s not just for developers. If you make a mess of things, your “real” data and org is protected and your sandbox can be refreshed 29 days from its creation or from the last refresh. You can be created a sandbox in production environment; Setup > Administration Setup > Data Management > Sandbox There are three types of sandboxes available to Salesforce.com customers. Configuration-only sandbox Configuration-only sandboxes copy all your production organization’s reports, dashboards, price books, products, apps, and customizations, but exclu...

Basically the multi-currency feature is not available in your organization on salesforce. We have to log a case or contact salesforce support team for activate the multi-currency feature on your organization. This request can only be made by a System Administrator Prior to converting your organization to multi-currency, some aspects of this feature that should be reviewed. The Multi-Currency functionality CANNOT be turned off once it is activated. Salesforce.com support team also recommends testing the activation in a Sandbox environment. The process locks the org when turning on Multi Currency (preventing users from logging in), this can take 30 minutes or more depending on the size of the organization. After activate this feature on your organization, you will have a standard field called "CurrencyIsoCode" as picklist in ont only standard objects but also in custom objects And You will have a place to manage your currencies in following path; Your Name-->Setup-->Admi...

Salesforce CRM is a web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service. It allows you to create a single view of your customers and leads, coordinate your sales, marketing and customer service activities and provides an overview into how your business is operating. You can generate, manage, and report on leads, opportunities and track results from first contact to won or lost business. You can see the results of your marketing campaigns and understand their impact using real-time analytics. It helps to improves efficiency, reduces administration time and lets you focus more on your business by reducing the time taken to search for information by providing a centralized service. Salesforce has several products and service categories such as Sales cloud, Service cloud, Data cloud, Collaboration Cloud (including Chatter) and Custom Cloud (Force.com).

Cloud computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth. Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT's existing capabilities. Cloud computing is at an early stage, with a motley crew of providers large and small delivering a slew of cloud-based services, from full-blown applications to storage services to spam filtering. Yes, utility...