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While creating/editing a custom object record, Id like users to be able to click a link or button that would open a new window. Is it possible to add such component to the edit page? And if so, what would be the best way to do it, ideally without creating a whole new Visualforce page... 
 
Thanks !
 
Nathalie
 
 
Is there a way to not display the Name field of a custom object in the create/edit page layout?
 
We want to populate the Name field using a blend of info from other fields, so we can enforce naming convention (such as XYZ-[Account Name]-[date]). Have already created an S-control that does it uppon clicking the Save button. Now the only thing is we have to ask users to ignore the mandatory Name field... which really isn't intuitive since they are used to not leave any mandatory field blank.
 
Any idea ?
Having a hard time figuring the best approach to the following issue.
 
We have advertisement products of 2 different types: web and print. When adding a product to an opportunity, we need user to specify additional features based on the type of product selected. Namely, they should indicate the section the ad will go into. The list of available sections is different for web and print.
 
We thought of using the following features, but none brings the expected end result.
 
Field dependency - to have a "section" picklist on the Opportunity Product showing different values based on the type of Product. Would have been just what we wanted, but Opportunity Product isn't linked to most standard and custom Product fields...
 
Page layout - we tried creating 2 pages layout for Opportunity Product, one showing a "Print section" picklist, the other showing a "Web section" picklist. This would also do the trick, except that nothing but the user profil can drive what page layout will be used.
 
Could S-controls be used to create new buttons that would better route the addition of products to an opportunity ? For example, instead of a single "Add product" button, create two buttons.
 
Button 1 -  "Add web product", showing a pre-filtered list of products where type = web, and opening the Web page layout that includes "Web section" picklist.
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Button 2 - "Add print product",  showing a pre-filtered list of products where type = print, and opening the Web page layout that includes "Print section" picklist.
 
Does that sounds possible ?
 
Any other suggestion, hints or tips will be greatly appreciated !
 
Thanks 
I have very limited programing skills and would like feedback telling me if what we are trying to do can be done or not.
 
There's a "Negotiated discount rate" field on Accounts. We need to make sure reps aren't giving more discount than what was negotiated, or if they need to, make sure their manager has approved such discount. How can we compare the discount entered by a rep against the discount on the account record ? I thought of an s-control that could go grab the account's discount and then do a simple validation... Can such s-control run as soon as the Account lookup field is populated on an opportunity record, in edit mode ? If not, what would you suggest to be a good user-friendly process to grab the account's discount and compare it against the discount entered on a new opportunity record ?
 
Note that we can't overwrite the create new opportunity button on the account page to pre-fill data on the opportunity record. Users have to create opportunities from various objects depending on the type of opportunity (such as from a Project custom object). Ideally, we'd like a process that would work for any scenario, no matter the starting point of the new opportunity.
 
Many thanks for your help !
 
hi click on setup->Customize->Activities->Activity Custom Fields-> While creating fields i do not get lookup data type. Can someone help me out please 
 
Thanks!
Hello all,
 
We have a bunch of custom objects for which we'd like to have relevant record names automatically populated. The auto number option fills the "auto" need, but using numbers makes searching and finding the right record more difficult for users. Are there other options ? Being able to name record based on, for example, the related record name + current month would be awesome. Any help and suggestion will be appreciated.
 
Thanks !
Good news regarding the BR() function: We have changed the behavior so that it inserts a new line character rather than the dreaded _BR_ENCODED_.

You should now be able to compose formulas in Workflow Field Update & Default Value formulas like

Code:
MailingStreet & BR() &
MailingCity & ", " & MailingState & " " & MailingPostalCode & BR() &
MailingCountry

This fix is now live, so give it a try.

Regards,
Eric