Salesforce Software Development and Consulting
Recently, I was asked to create a custom button that would allow a user to choose between two SuperClone Configuration options. jQueryUI provides a nice modal dialog that solved the problem. The dialog showed two buttons for the configurations and a cancel button. Below is the sample code for what I put together. The actions…
Read morePerform common actions like run a search or check a checkbox when the enter key is pressed, instead of form submission. The example below shows how to do this with help from jQuery in the Visualforce page. Things to notice: jQuery.noConflict() prevents conflicts with other javascript that Salesforce may have loaded. j$(document).ready will run the…
Read moreCheck if a Popup Blocker Prevented the Popup Window Most browsers will block popup windows the first time a popup window tries to appear. Here is how to check if a popup window was blocked. var win = window.open(“/apex/PopupWindowVfPage”, “MyWinName”, “height=500,width=500”); // set the focus new window win.focus(); // assign the methods focusPopup to the…
Read moreApex Removing the last comma is often needed when dynamically building a SOQL Select string. Salesforce quietly released a bunch of new string methods in Winter ’13 that I have started to really appreciate. One of the new methods is removeEnd() and removeEndIngoreCase(). These are great for removing that last comma. String soql = ‘Select…
Read moreUsing a Visualforce tag with the escape=off option may help send an html tag like a line break to the page. However, escape=off can open cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Visualforce encoding functions HTMLENCODE, JSENCODE, JSINHTMLENCODE, and URLENCODE help avoid the vulnerabilities, but they also prevent \n new line characters and html tags from showing on the…
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