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Quick post highlighting some Summer ’13 goodness for metadata deployment. 1. Abort a running deployment – This is a massive improvement enabling failed or inadvertent deployments to be cancelled whilst in progress. Anyone working on large deployments will bear witness how frustrating it can be to watch a 30 minute deployment run to completion with […]
The Summer ’13 release notes are now available, find below a brief introduction to 10 Force.com highlights (in no order of significance). 1. New Setup interface. Clean new interface for the Setup area, with a top-level “Setup” link in the header region. Administration and Personal settings are now separate, the latter is accessed from a […]
In the first of a series of short posts looking at interesting aspects of the forthcoming Summer 13 release, this posts explores a new capability to add custom publisher actions to the Chatter UI. In the screenshot below we see the end-result, i.e. a custom publisher action “Create Account” and the UI displayed when invoked. […]
Experienced Salesforce technical architects will always look to declarative solution options before considering technical alternatives. This type of thinking is best practice and indicative of an architect considerate of TCO (total cost of ownership), future maintenance etc.. In my case I’ll go as far as to challenge requirements such that I can deliver a fit […]
I think it’s fair to say that consideration of reporting and analytics is not traditionally a technical architect’s direct concern. In the Salesforce context I always challenge this presumption and promote the idea that a project architect should absolutely be looking at the high-level analytical requirements during the foundation stage of the project. Why you […]
A real frustration with inline Visualforce pages (added to standard page layouts) is the static nature of the height setting. From the layout we can set a specific height, but ideally we want the height set dynamically from the content height. Sounds like a simple enough requirement, however, the fact that the VF page section […]
The Salesforce metadata API is an extremely powerful tool, when combined with Ant, Jenkins etc. for build automation. There is however a number of configuration items that simply can’t be retrieved and deployed using this API (Account Teams, Support Settings, Lead Settings, Case Assignment and Escalation Rules etc.). The unsupported list can be found here, […]
With the upcoming Spring 13 release (release window dates below) the new Tooling API goes GA. 11th Jan, sandbox instances 18th Jan – 9th Feb, production instances (EU0 8th Feb, EU1/2 9th Feb) What is the Tooling API? The full details can be found in the API guide here, in short the API is intended […]
In this post I’ll share some recent practical experiences implementing Federated SSO between Salesforce and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0 for brevity). For detailed configuration and theoretical information on this subject please refer to the excellent resources below. http://blog.rhysgoodwin.com/cloud/salesforce-sso-with-adfs-2-0-everything-you-need-to-know/ http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Single_Sign-On_with_Force.com_and_Microsoft_Active_Directory_Federation_Services To set the scene – the “deployment view” schematic below shows the building […]
I passed the Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer and Administrator Winter ’13 Release Exams this morning. I always try to do this as early as possible and make the exams the culmination of a detailed investigation into the new release. The excellent resources available (pre-release webinars and orgs, release training, release notes and sandbox previews) make […]
