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Once again the annual Dreamforce event has been and gone leaving most practitioners with an uncomfortable knowledge deficit in terms of the real detail of the wealth of new innovations announced. This autumn period, post-Dreamforce, is often a time for investigation; piecing together information gathered from press releases, blog post, social media and event session […]
In a typical development process requirements are captured and the information synthesised to form a solution design. The constituent components of the solution design are ultimately translated into physical concepts such as a class, page or sub-page view. This analysis, design, build cycle could be iterative in nature or fixed and may have different degrees […]
At the time I started writing this post we were living in a Chatter Mobile world, this is no longer the case. As announced recently at Dreamforce ’13 we have entered the Salesforce1 era, the direction of which will no doubt become clearer as we transition to the Spring ’14 release. What is clear now […]
Winter ’14 introduces two-factor authentication (2FA) for both User Interface and API logins, a long-awaited security feature enabled through User Profile, or Permission Set. The relevant permissions are: Two-Factor Authentication for User Interface Logins Two-Factor Authentication for API Logins The second factor in question being a time-based token generated by a Salesforce supplied, device specific […]
With Winter ’14 the new Analytics API turns GA. This RESTful style of API consumes standard API call limits, uses OAuth authentication and JSON request/response message formats (representations). The key functionality of the Analytics API is the execution of reports (in synchronous or asynchronous modes), the application of dynamic filtering and the inspection of report […]
The newly released Salesforce Touch Platform Guide provides a very useful consolidation of both technical information and design guidance pertinent to mobile development on the Force.com platform. Topics covered include Identity, Connected Apps, Mobile Components for Visualforce etc. All in all an essential read for anyone considering mobile app development. Of particular interest is the […]
The code below provides an example of a page action method used to detect a mobile user-agent and perform redirection. Alternatively the same approach could be used with dynamic Visualforce components to switch between mobile/web optimised page composition. [sourcecode language=”java”] public PageReference redirectDevice(){ String userAgent = ApexPages.currentPage().getHeaders().get(‘USER-AGENT’); //& some devices use custom headers for the […]
