Month: January 2017

How to Show All Available records in a lookup search

The Problematic Situation: When you add any lookup in Salesforce on a layout from one object to another, and try searching for available values, you face the below issues: 1-You can only search by record name. (main value) – Default settings 2-You need at least 2 characters to for the search to work 3-You cannot search for values in any other field, your search is limited to the main field. 4-System will only display by default recent viewed items (by you) and not all the available values. Therefore users are expected to know all possible values of the record...

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Salesforce CRM Services in Dubai

Sales Cloud (Salesforce CRM) Sales Cloud is the pioneering Salesforce application that is recognized by all as an award-winning service. It is used by companies around the world to grow revenue and increase customer satisfaction. Companies in various industries have implemented Salesforce to create reliability, visibility and flexibility among their sales teams. The application also creates a 360-degree view of their client base for all to see, report on and forecast appropriately. Known as the “Sales Tool that Reps Love to Use”, it empowers companies to manage people and processes more effectively, pursue more business in less time and...

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Help text of more than 255 characters.

Sometimes we need Helptext with our field but in salesforce there is a limitation that you can define only 255 characters for the helptext (while creating a field).However in case if we need more than 255 characters we  can go with 2 options. 1)Create custom Helptext tooltip using jquery and javascript. 2)Another one is using helptext attribute of apex:pageBlockSectionItem Here is the Information about 2nd option. Use <apex:pageBlockSectionItem>, it has a helptext attribute that corresponds to the balloon. You can put your “long help” in a custom label for example so it can be translated to other languages like...

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Passing Parameters To a Report Through The URL

One of the most powerful features of Salesforce is the ability to consolidate all of the information in your organization into easy to digest reports and dashboards. Users with the ability to create reports will find all of the functionality they need on the Reports tab. Anyone who has worked with Reports before can testify that the feature is very powerful and provides the user with quick insight into their information. The question now becomes, how do I make this information even easier to obtain? Let’s take a look at a specific scenario. Suppose you work for a company,...

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