Hello All,

 

I am trying to complete this lab (8-1 Creating a Custom SOAP Web Service) from 501 Labs.

 

When I did this with the assigned org during our training, I did not have any issues.

 

When I tried doing the same exercise in my own developer edition I am seeing this error.

 

Objective of the exercise : To allow insertion of job candidate and application via webservice API.In this the webservice is called from a VF page.

 

webservice name =

CandidateKeyWebService

and it has a method called "submitEmployeeReferral"

 

This is the contents from the pop up window

 

=========

 

AJAX Toolkit Shell
Features: autocompletion of property names with Tab, multiline input with Shift+Enter, input history with Up/Down Values and functions: ans, print(string), props(object), blink(node), clear(), load(scriptURL), scope(object)


Request: server- /services/Soap/package/CandidateKeyWebService
<textarea cols=80 rows=5 wrap=hard>&lt;se:Envelope xmlns:se="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;&lt;se:Header xmlns:sfns="http://soap.sforce.com/schemas/package/CandidateKeyWebService"&gt;&lt;sfns:SessionHeader&gt;&lt;sessionId&gt;00D90000000qFRD!AREAQMLtrkAQzPhCsf_KMIB5rE5rnPPap0YFtJyDdsz_3GcQs_fom5q7dGXJyBdG1TGaMY83V7CI0.gU.93nw49Bdt5hDKnx&lt;/sessionId&gt;&lt;/sfns:SessionHeader&gt;&lt;/se:Header&gt;&lt;se:Body&gt;&lt;submitEmployeeReferral xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/schemas/package/CandidateKeyWebService"&gt;&lt;a&gt;a009000000PLJx8AAH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;type&gt;Candidate__c&lt;/type&gt;&lt;First_Name__c&gt;a&lt;/First_Name__c&gt;&lt;Last_Name__c&gt;b&lt;/Last_Name__c&gt;&lt;Phone__c&gt;&lt;/Phone__c&gt;&lt;Mobile__c&gt;&lt;/Mobile__c&gt;&lt;Email__c&gt;a@a.com&lt;/Email__c&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/submitEmployeeReferral&gt;&lt;/se:Body&gt;&lt;/se:Envelope&gt;</textarea>


Response : status - 500
<textarea cols=80 rows=5 wrap=hard>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;&lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;&lt;soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;soapenv:Fault&gt;&lt;faultcode&gt;soapenv:Client&lt;/faultcode&gt;&lt;faultstring&gt;No such parameter a defined for the operation, please check the WSDL for the service.&lt;/faultstring&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Fault&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Envelope&gt;</textarea>


faultcode    soapenv:Client
faultstring    No such parameter a defined for the operation, please check the WSDL for the service.

====================

 

Q : I am new to webservices debugging etc and since this error did not come during our training, I am at a loss to understand where and how to start debugging.

 

Can someone point me out in a right direction or give me a clue as to what could be wrong ?

Hi there

Have a question about LastViewedDate.  I would like to know exactly what would cause a change in this field?

A colleague came to me and said his list of Recently Viewed Opportunities isn't accurate because he hasn't been viewing a lot of the opportunities on that list for a long time.

I first found a way to look at the recently viewed information through SOQL because I want him to look at the timestamp to verify if he did or didn't really view those records.
 

SELECT Id, Name, LastViewedDate
FROM RecentlyViewed
WHERE LastViewedDate !=null and type='Opportunity'
ORDER BY LastViewedDate DESC

 

When I ran it myself, the results is just as I would expect, nothing unusual.  However when he ran it, it is very weird.  Please see attached.
As you can see the timestamps are rounded to the second, like he was viewing 3 records at the same time, at 15:23:08.

I wonder what else would update this field.  Would be great if someone has any ideas.

Refer to the screenshot - I removed the "Name" column from the screenshot but you can see the LastViewedDate is too "tidy".


Thanks
King

Hi there

Am I the only one that always seems to struggle with the rendering of trailhead pages on my Chrome browser?

Thanks
King

Hi there

There  are many posts on this forum already on how to fix Mixed DML Operations.

I am not asking for how to solve this.  Obviously using the @future method is one way to do it, if not the only.

I'm hoping for someone to explain to me why is that a problem?  Why can I not create an account and a user within the same transaction?  The documentation says it'll affect the access to records in the org.  However, I don't think I understand what that means.

I have already looked at a lot of the official documentation, so instead of sending URLs to official documentation, I hope someone can explain that to me in plain English.

Thank you very much!
King

Hi there

First of all, I am NOT looking to rename "Account" to something else, but can I rename the field "Account" on just one of my standard objects?  

Specifically, on the standard Quote object, the standard "Account" field really represents "Bill-to Party" (as per SAP).  I would like to know if I can rename just this one standard field Account on Quote?  Again, I don't mean to rename "Account" globally.

I went to the Rename Tabs and Labels for Quote and don't even see the field for "Account".  Then I realize, when I go to the Rename page for, say, Opportunities, I don't see "Account" either.

Does it mean I can not rename the "Account" field name without renaming "Account" object name, globally?

Thanks
King

Hi there

I have an object which is the child to Account in a master-detail relationship.

In the REST API, when creating the child record for an existing account (with external ID AAA), this is the JSON I use.
 

{
  "batchRequests": [
    {
      "method": "PATCH",
      "url": "v35.0/sobjects/Account_Child__c/External_Id__c/ABCDE",
      "richInput": {
        "Account__r": {
          "External_Id__cc": "AAA"
        },
        "Other_Field__c": "whatever"
      }
    }
  ]
}

This is fine when I'm inserting.  However, when I'm updating the content for "Other_Field__c", if I include "Account__r" then I get the infamous error message:  

Unable to create/update fields: Account__c. Please check the security settings of this field and verify that it is read/write for your profile or permission set.

So I'm forced to not include Account__c.

The thing is, if the integration developer is using a tool to send the JSON over to Salesforce (from SAP in this case), he will not know whether the child object record exists or not.  I'm hoping I could use the SAME structure for both insert and update in this upsert.

Is my only solution to set the "Child records can be reparented to other parent records after they are created" checkbox?  

If so I'm just amazed how you could do that before this checkbox was introduced (whcih was only less than 4 years ago).

Thanks a lot
King




 

Hi there

It may be a dumb question but is there any transaction control capability with REST API?

I have SAP sending data over to my Salesforce instance over some middleware, calling REST API.  I don't have any web services exposed or anything.  The middleware basically just simply pumps data from SAP into Salesforce calling REST API (/composite/batch resource).

I'm wondering what if the batch is sending me 20 records (say one account followed by 5 contacts, 5 opportunities and 9 orders).  If any of the record fails, is there a way for the REST API to rollback this set of 20 records?

Is there also a place in Salesforce that I can view the REST API log?

Thanks
King

Hi there

I've been trying to understand if I'm mistaken or not.

According to the help, (https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.securityImplGuide.meta/securityImplGuide/fields_about_encrypted_fields.htm), 

Encrypted text fields:
Are not available for: Salesforce Classic Mobile, Connect Offline, Salesforce for Outlook, lead conversion, workflow rule criteria or formulas, formula fields, outbound messages, default values, and Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case forms.

However, I tried and I am able to send out encrypted text fields in my outbound message.  It is true I can't use it in workflow rule criteria or formula, but I can send out those encrypted fields.

Is it the documentation that hasn't been updated yet?

Thanks
King

Hi there
I have a contact record called "King Koo" with email address king.koo@test.com.

I set up a Matching Rule on Contact - Matching Criteria is
(Contact: LastName
FUZZY: LAST NAME
MatchBlank = FALSE) 
AND 
(Contact: Email
EXACT
MatchBlank = FALSE)

And I set up Duplicate Rule to allow on create with Alert and Report, tying it to the Matching Rule above.

I then created a Lead with the same info as the Contact, and then on Convert, I get to a screen like the following.  

My confusion is that the "Convert to Existing Contact" gives me an empty list, when I was expecting to see the info of the matching Contact record.  With no records showing there, obviously the "Convert to Selected" doesn't make sense.

As far as I'm concerned, the duplicate management is not doing anything.

Am I missing some steps?

Thanks
King

Hi there

Got a bug today and was debugging it to death, but still at no avail.  Hope someone can help.  This is regarding <apex:actionStatus>.

I made my example really short.  So here is the controller:

public class ActionStatusController
{
    public String testVariable {get; set;}
    public pagereference donothing()
    {
        return null;
    }
}

And here is the VF page that uses the controller

<apex:page controller="ActionStatusController">
<apex:pageBlock id="pb">
<apex:form >
    <apex:selectList value="{!testVariable }" size="1">
        <apex:selectOption itemValue="" itemLabel="" />
        <apex:selectOption itemValue="a" itemLabel="a" />
        <apex:selectOption itemValue="b" itemLabel="b" />
        <apex:selectOption itemValue="c" itemLabel="c" />
        <apex:actionSupport event="onchange" reRender="testVariableDiv"/>
    </apex:selectList>
    <apex:commandButton action="{!doNothing}" value="Click" status="showStatus" rerender="pb"/>
</apex:form>
<apex:outputPanel id="testVariableDiv">
    <apex:outputText value="selected value is {!testVariable }" />
</apex:outputPanel><br/>
<apex:actionStatus id="showStatus">
<apex:facet name="start">
the value is "{!testVariable }"
</apex:facet>
</apex:actionStatus>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:page>

When the page loads, you see the picklist and then the statement that says "selected value is".

Once you pick, say, "c", then the statement becomes "selected value is c", which is expected.

However, when you then press the button, which in the facet/start is supposed to display the same value, it says "the value is ".

Now, if I press it again, then it displays "the value is c".  

It seems like the actionStatus is lagging by one step.  What must I change in order for the display to say "the value is c" as soon as I press the "Click" button?


Thanks
King


 

Hi there

In the past whenever I add a VF to a profile or a permission set, I always also add the associated controller or controller extension to the same profile and permission set.

This morning (22 May 2015) I omitted to add the controller for my VF page to the profile, but I found out the VF page still renders for the profile I was testing.

Am I missing something here?  Or is it something new?
 

Thanks
King

Hi there

Have a very simple sample here
 

<apex:page standardController="Contact">
    <apex:form >
        <apex:pageMessages/>
        <apex:pageBlock mode="inlineEdit">
            <apex:pageBlockButtons >
                <apex:commandButton action="{!edit}" id="editButton" value="Edit" style="display: none;"/>
                <apex:commandButton action="{!save}" id="saveButton" value="Save" style="display: none;"/>
                <apex:commandButton onclick="resetInlineEdit()" id="cancelButton" value="Cancel" style="display: none;"/>
            </apex:pageBlockButtons>
            <apex:pageBlockSection >
                <apex:outputField value="{!contact.date__c}">
                    <apex:inlineEditSupport showOnEdit="saveButton, cancelButton" 
                        hideOnEdit="editButton" event="ondblclick" 
                        changedStyleClass="myBoldClass" resetFunction="resetInlineEdit"/>
                </apex:outputField>
            </apex:pageBlockSection>
        </apex:pageBlock>
    </apex:form>
</apex:page>

As you can see there is a Date field which supports inline edit.

When you double click the field, the Save and Cancel buttons show.  Now if I enter some bad data into the Date field, such as "abc", and click Save, it'll fail the validation rule.

It's obvious because the error displays in the <apex:pageMessages/> tag, but I cannot find a way to show the "Save" and "Cancel" buttons anymore.

Anyone knows what I'm missing here?
Thanks
King

HI there

I have a dashboard showing a donut.  When clicking a wedge on the donut, I have set it up so that the user will be brought forward to the filtered report showing detail information about the clicked wedge.

Is there any way so that I don't let user access the report directly?  That is, the only way they can get to the report is via the dashboard, so what they will get is always the "filtered report", not the whole report?

I tried to create a report folder with no sharing to the user profile, but when I signed in as the user, I got the "The data you were trying to access could not be found. It may be due to another user deleting the data or a system error." error.

ANy ideas?
Thanks
King

Hi there

I just downloaded the data loader (Data Management -> Data Loader) but it is the same as version 30.0 (the splash screen says 30.0 instead of 31.0).

Does anyone know if there were no changes to the latest data loader?

Thanks
King

Hi there

Assuming I have two picklists in my VF page, something like this:

<apex:selectList value="{!parentId}" id="cmbParent" size="1" required="true" label="Parent">
  <apex:selectOptions value="{!parents}" />
  <apex:actionSupport event="onchange" action="{!clearChild}" reRender="cmbChild"/>
</apex:selectList>
<apex:selectList value="{!childId}" id="cmdChild" size="1" label="Child">
  <apex:selectOptions value="{!children}" />
</apex:selectList>

In a nutshell, if someone changes the value of the parent picklist, that should call the action method clearChild() and then re-render the child picklist.

I would like to know, in the test class, even if I have called the Test.setCurrentPage, if I programmatically change the parentId, is that not supposed to call the action method automatically?

i.e.

TestCase__c  testcase = new TestCase();
Test.setCurrentPage(Page.MyTestPage);

ApexPages.standardController std = new ApexPages.standardController(testcase);
MyTestCaseExt controllerExt = new MyTestCaseExt(std);

controllerExt.parentId.value = 3;

// after the above line, can I count on the action method clearChild getting called?
// Or do I need to call it explicitly?
//controllerExt.clearChild();
System.assertEquals(null, controllerExt.childId);

I'm asking because it seems to me the action method does not actually get called even though I have specifically set the page reference.

Originally I thought when the parent picklist value changes, it will automatically call the action method to clear the content of the child picklist.  If I have to call the action method myself, then obviously my assert will be successful.  It'll be like, I set variable a to 3, and then I check if a equals 3, which is kind of pointless, is it not?

Thanks
King

Hi there

I'm tryng to help implement a system that tracks patients and physician information (and other stuff).  I really hope someone that has experiecnes implementing Person Accounts can help me here.

My client has enabled Person Account.

Person accounts are used to model patients, business accounts are used to model physician's office, and then Contacts are used to model physicians.  In fact, I have renamed Accounts to Patients, and Contacts to Physicians, so now you see "Patients" tab and "Physicians" tab.

So for example, I am a patient, King Koo, so there is a person account.  I have a doctor called "Dr Wong" - which takes up a contact record, and finally, his clinic is called "Dr Wong Clinic" which takes up a business account.

Now, this is the part where I'm having some challenges.  

1) The Account now has person accounts (Patients) and business accounts (Clinics).  So that led me to wonder, should I have renamed Accounts to Patients?  Can I have two Account tabs, one for showing the person accounts, and one for showing the business accounts?

2) I have originally renamed "Account Name" to "Patient Name" so that when I'm looking at the record for "King Koo", I'll see Patient Name is King Koo.  

However, when I go to the physician record for "Dr Wong", (which is a Contact record, and as you know Account Name is a required field for Contact), you now again see "Patient Name", but that's where I meant to input "Dr Wong Clinic". The fact that the physician record showing a field called "Patient Name" just does not make sense.

I would really like to see "Patient Name" in the form for patients, and like to see "Clinic Name" in the form for physicians.

Is it do-able?

Thanks a lot
King

Hi there

I thought it would be a very simple thing to do but I just have a mental block.  Hope you can help.

This is the use case.  The client uses opportunity.  They want to see the total amount of won opportunities per month (across all people).  That's easy, a summary report filtering by stage = won, and group by calendar month.

This is the challenge though.  The client has a custom object that stores the target.  The custom object looks like:

Year: 2014, Month: 01, TargetAmount: 5000000
Year: 2014, Month: 02, TargetAmount: 5200000

so as you can imagine, 12 records for year 2014.

Client wants to show a dashboard that combines the summary report (Won Oppr Amount By Month) superimposing the information against the target.  The target is not set at the salesperson level, not at department level, but at the top level - bascially, the target for January 2014, across all salespeople in the entire company, is $5000000, for example.

Am I even using the right approach?  Should I have used a custom object to store target information?  And how would I put the data from these two separate entities together on the same report (and eventually dashboard)?

Thanks a lot
King

Hi there

I have a parent object (such as Applicant).

There are several related lists regarding the Applicant.  Such as Application History, Training History, Employment History, Education History, etc.  Applicant is the master and these 4 other things are the children to the Applicant custom object.

The use case is that when the client is looking at an applicant's application (there can be many applications, but let's say the client is viewing one of those applications, and the client wants to see the applicant's training history.

The client would like to have a custom link on the application record that says "Training History", and when clicked, a window will pop up that will display the applicant's training history.

At first I thought I would simply have a VF page that shows the training history of the applicant via <apex:relatedList>, and the page would use the applicant object as the standard controller.  I thought that would be really easy!

<apex:page standardController="Applicant__c">
  <apex:relatedList list="TrainingHistories__r"/>
</apex:page>

But then because I'm using the standard controller of the Applicant object, I will not be able to create it as a custom link on an "Application" page layout.

So at the end I have to use a custom controller instead and use the ApexPages.getParameters() to pass the ID of the applicant.

I am able to do that, but then I wonder is there really no way to implement this requirement without Apex?

I was trying to think of another method.  Is it possible for me to display the Training History related list of an applicant in the applicant's Application view?

Which is the title of my post, how do I display a parent's child's related list from the parent's another child's page layout?

Thanks
king

Hi there

It's been very frustrating because I cannot post questions with Windows 8 on this discussion forum after it's been renovated.

Also when I typed a few keywords and the search results pop up, I click on any of the search results but there won't be anything happening to it.

I have to use my desktop (which is Windows XP) in order to post stuff on to this forum.

I wonder if anybody has the same issue?  I'm running Windows 8, Chrome.    (I understand this is probably not the right place to post this question but I don't know who to ask)

Thanks
King

Hi guys

I have an Account page layout, and there are 2 sections inside the page layout for 2 VF pages that I have.

The subject for the first is "Apple", and the subject for the second is "Orange".

Both are using the same controller extension.

Based on the subject, the controller extension will pull different records from another custom object, so in the Apple section, it's showing my VF page called Apple_Page that shows information about apples, and in the Orange section, it's showing my VF page called Orange_Page that shows information about oranges.

I thought there would be a way for me to pass a parameter on page load of these two VF pages to the controller extension so that the controller extension can retrieve the proper records.

What exactly can I do?  I tried actionSupport, actionFunction, but none of them seem to really work.  All I want to do is for the Apple_Page to pass a string "apple" on page load to controller extension, and for Orange_Page to pass the string "orange" on page load to the same controller extension.

I thought it would be easy, but I have already spent 5 hours on it today and I think by now I need some help.

Thanks a lot
King

Hi there

This is weird..  Never thought I've encountered that before.  Is it new...?

The following code works, just as you would expect.

<apex:page standardController="account">
    <apex:repeat value="{!account.contacts}" var="CONTACT">
        <apex:outputField value="{!CONTACT.name}" />
    </apex:repeat>
</apex:page>

However, if I change the outputField to this (only hanged the apex:outputField line),

<apex:page standardController="account">
    <apex:repeat value="{!account.contacts}" var="CONTACT">
        <apex:outputField value="{!contact.name}" />
    </apex:repeat>
</apex:page>

I got this error mssage:
Error: Unknown property 'AccountStandardController.contact'

This is really against what I have believed for a long time that VF is case insensitive.

Has anyone else seen this before?

Note:  I originally had var="Contact".  My above code, var="CONTACT", is simply for illustrations.

Thanks
king

Hi there

I have an object which is the child to Account in a master-detail relationship.

In the REST API, when creating the child record for an existing account (with external ID AAA), this is the JSON I use.
 

{
  "batchRequests": [
    {
      "method": "PATCH",
      "url": "v35.0/sobjects/Account_Child__c/External_Id__c/ABCDE",
      "richInput": {
        "Account__r": {
          "External_Id__cc": "AAA"
        },
        "Other_Field__c": "whatever"
      }
    }
  ]
}

This is fine when I'm inserting.  However, when I'm updating the content for "Other_Field__c", if I include "Account__r" then I get the infamous error message:  

Unable to create/update fields: Account__c. Please check the security settings of this field and verify that it is read/write for your profile or permission set.

So I'm forced to not include Account__c.

The thing is, if the integration developer is using a tool to send the JSON over to Salesforce (from SAP in this case), he will not know whether the child object record exists or not.  I'm hoping I could use the SAME structure for both insert and update in this upsert.

Is my only solution to set the "Child records can be reparented to other parent records after they are created" checkbox?  

If so I'm just amazed how you could do that before this checkbox was introduced (whcih was only less than 4 years ago).

Thanks a lot
King




 

Hi there

I thought it would be a very simple thing to do but I just have a mental block.  Hope you can help.

This is the use case.  The client uses opportunity.  They want to see the total amount of won opportunities per month (across all people).  That's easy, a summary report filtering by stage = won, and group by calendar month.

This is the challenge though.  The client has a custom object that stores the target.  The custom object looks like:

Year: 2014, Month: 01, TargetAmount: 5000000
Year: 2014, Month: 02, TargetAmount: 5200000

so as you can imagine, 12 records for year 2014.

Client wants to show a dashboard that combines the summary report (Won Oppr Amount By Month) superimposing the information against the target.  The target is not set at the salesperson level, not at department level, but at the top level - bascially, the target for January 2014, across all salespeople in the entire company, is $5000000, for example.

Am I even using the right approach?  Should I have used a custom object to store target information?  And how would I put the data from these two separate entities together on the same report (and eventually dashboard)?

Thanks a lot
King

Hi there

This is weird..  Never thought I've encountered that before.  Is it new...?

The following code works, just as you would expect.

<apex:page standardController="account">
    <apex:repeat value="{!account.contacts}" var="CONTACT">
        <apex:outputField value="{!CONTACT.name}" />
    </apex:repeat>
</apex:page>

However, if I change the outputField to this (only hanged the apex:outputField line),

<apex:page standardController="account">
    <apex:repeat value="{!account.contacts}" var="CONTACT">
        <apex:outputField value="{!contact.name}" />
    </apex:repeat>
</apex:page>

I got this error mssage:
Error: Unknown property 'AccountStandardController.contact'

This is really against what I have believed for a long time that VF is case insensitive.

Has anyone else seen this before?

Note:  I originally had var="Contact".  My above code, var="CONTACT", is simply for illustrations.

Thanks
king

Hi there

 

It seems to me that the "ALL ROWS" keyword that you use in SOQL (to access records in the recycled bin) can only be used in Apex.

 

I went to Developer Console in the Query Editor and tried typing this

 

SELECT ID FROM Fruit__c 

and it executes.

 

But If I add "ALL ROWS" at the end, i.e.

SELECT ID FROM Fruit__c ALL ROWS

 

then I got

"Unknown error parsing query" error.

 

If I write this in an Apex code, like this

 

List<Fruit__c> fruits = [SELECT ID FROM Fruit__c ALL ROWS];

 

then the line actually executes successfully.

 

It seems weird to me that "ALL ROWS" keyword cannot be used inside the Query Editor.  Wondering if anyone has encountered that?

 

Thanks

King

Hi there

I have an object which is the child to Account in a master-detail relationship.

In the REST API, when creating the child record for an existing account (with external ID AAA), this is the JSON I use.
 

{
  "batchRequests": [
    {
      "method": "PATCH",
      "url": "v35.0/sobjects/Account_Child__c/External_Id__c/ABCDE",
      "richInput": {
        "Account__r": {
          "External_Id__cc": "AAA"
        },
        "Other_Field__c": "whatever"
      }
    }
  ]
}

This is fine when I'm inserting.  However, when I'm updating the content for "Other_Field__c", if I include "Account__r" then I get the infamous error message:  

Unable to create/update fields: Account__c. Please check the security settings of this field and verify that it is read/write for your profile or permission set.

So I'm forced to not include Account__c.

The thing is, if the integration developer is using a tool to send the JSON over to Salesforce (from SAP in this case), he will not know whether the child object record exists or not.  I'm hoping I could use the SAME structure for both insert and update in this upsert.

Is my only solution to set the "Child records can be reparented to other parent records after they are created" checkbox?  

If so I'm just amazed how you could do that before this checkbox was introduced (whcih was only less than 4 years ago).

Thanks a lot
King




 

Hi there

It may be a dumb question but is there any transaction control capability with REST API?

I have SAP sending data over to my Salesforce instance over some middleware, calling REST API.  I don't have any web services exposed or anything.  The middleware basically just simply pumps data from SAP into Salesforce calling REST API (/composite/batch resource).

I'm wondering what if the batch is sending me 20 records (say one account followed by 5 contacts, 5 opportunities and 9 orders).  If any of the record fails, is there a way for the REST API to rollback this set of 20 records?

Is there also a place in Salesforce that I can view the REST API log?

Thanks
King

Hi there

I've been trying to understand if I'm mistaken or not.

According to the help, (https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.securityImplGuide.meta/securityImplGuide/fields_about_encrypted_fields.htm), 

Encrypted text fields:
Are not available for: Salesforce Classic Mobile, Connect Offline, Salesforce for Outlook, lead conversion, workflow rule criteria or formulas, formula fields, outbound messages, default values, and Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case forms.

However, I tried and I am able to send out encrypted text fields in my outbound message.  It is true I can't use it in workflow rule criteria or formula, but I can send out those encrypted fields.

Is it the documentation that hasn't been updated yet?

Thanks
King

Hi there
I have a contact record called "King Koo" with email address king.koo@test.com.

I set up a Matching Rule on Contact - Matching Criteria is
(Contact: LastName
FUZZY: LAST NAME
MatchBlank = FALSE) 
AND 
(Contact: Email
EXACT
MatchBlank = FALSE)

And I set up Duplicate Rule to allow on create with Alert and Report, tying it to the Matching Rule above.

I then created a Lead with the same info as the Contact, and then on Convert, I get to a screen like the following.  

My confusion is that the "Convert to Existing Contact" gives me an empty list, when I was expecting to see the info of the matching Contact record.  With no records showing there, obviously the "Convert to Selected" doesn't make sense.

As far as I'm concerned, the duplicate management is not doing anything.

Am I missing some steps?

Thanks
King

I can't complete the Salesforce connect trailhead, the command to run heroku locally, DATABASE_URL=`heroku config:get DATABASE_URL` PGSSLMODE=require npm start, throws a syntax error:"The term 'DATABASE_URL' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,function, script file, or operable program. 

Hi there

Got a bug today and was debugging it to death, but still at no avail.  Hope someone can help.  This is regarding <apex:actionStatus>.

I made my example really short.  So here is the controller:

public class ActionStatusController
{
    public String testVariable {get; set;}
    public pagereference donothing()
    {
        return null;
    }
}

And here is the VF page that uses the controller

<apex:page controller="ActionStatusController">
<apex:pageBlock id="pb">
<apex:form >
    <apex:selectList value="{!testVariable }" size="1">
        <apex:selectOption itemValue="" itemLabel="" />
        <apex:selectOption itemValue="a" itemLabel="a" />
        <apex:selectOption itemValue="b" itemLabel="b" />
        <apex:selectOption itemValue="c" itemLabel="c" />
        <apex:actionSupport event="onchange" reRender="testVariableDiv"/>
    </apex:selectList>
    <apex:commandButton action="{!doNothing}" value="Click" status="showStatus" rerender="pb"/>
</apex:form>
<apex:outputPanel id="testVariableDiv">
    <apex:outputText value="selected value is {!testVariable }" />
</apex:outputPanel><br/>
<apex:actionStatus id="showStatus">
<apex:facet name="start">
the value is "{!testVariable }"
</apex:facet>
</apex:actionStatus>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:page>

When the page loads, you see the picklist and then the statement that says "selected value is".

Once you pick, say, "c", then the statement becomes "selected value is c", which is expected.

However, when you then press the button, which in the facet/start is supposed to display the same value, it says "the value is ".

Now, if I press it again, then it displays "the value is c".  

It seems like the actionStatus is lagging by one step.  What must I change in order for the display to say "the value is c" as soon as I press the "Click" button?


Thanks
King


 

Hi there

In the past whenever I add a VF to a profile or a permission set, I always also add the associated controller or controller extension to the same profile and permission set.

This morning (22 May 2015) I omitted to add the controller for my VF page to the profile, but I found out the VF page still renders for the profile I was testing.

Am I missing something here?  Or is it something new?
 

Thanks
King

Hi there

Have a very simple sample here
 

<apex:page standardController="Contact">
    <apex:form >
        <apex:pageMessages/>
        <apex:pageBlock mode="inlineEdit">
            <apex:pageBlockButtons >
                <apex:commandButton action="{!edit}" id="editButton" value="Edit" style="display: none;"/>
                <apex:commandButton action="{!save}" id="saveButton" value="Save" style="display: none;"/>
                <apex:commandButton onclick="resetInlineEdit()" id="cancelButton" value="Cancel" style="display: none;"/>
            </apex:pageBlockButtons>
            <apex:pageBlockSection >
                <apex:outputField value="{!contact.date__c}">
                    <apex:inlineEditSupport showOnEdit="saveButton, cancelButton" 
                        hideOnEdit="editButton" event="ondblclick" 
                        changedStyleClass="myBoldClass" resetFunction="resetInlineEdit"/>
                </apex:outputField>
            </apex:pageBlockSection>
        </apex:pageBlock>
    </apex:form>
</apex:page>

As you can see there is a Date field which supports inline edit.

When you double click the field, the Save and Cancel buttons show.  Now if I enter some bad data into the Date field, such as "abc", and click Save, it'll fail the validation rule.

It's obvious because the error displays in the <apex:pageMessages/> tag, but I cannot find a way to show the "Save" and "Cancel" buttons anymore.

Anyone knows what I'm missing here?
Thanks
King

HI there

I have a dashboard showing a donut.  When clicking a wedge on the donut, I have set it up so that the user will be brought forward to the filtered report showing detail information about the clicked wedge.

Is there any way so that I don't let user access the report directly?  That is, the only way they can get to the report is via the dashboard, so what they will get is always the "filtered report", not the whole report?

I tried to create a report folder with no sharing to the user profile, but when I signed in as the user, I got the "The data you were trying to access could not be found. It may be due to another user deleting the data or a system error." error.

ANy ideas?
Thanks
King

Hi there

I'm tryng to help implement a system that tracks patients and physician information (and other stuff).  I really hope someone that has experiecnes implementing Person Accounts can help me here.

My client has enabled Person Account.

Person accounts are used to model patients, business accounts are used to model physician's office, and then Contacts are used to model physicians.  In fact, I have renamed Accounts to Patients, and Contacts to Physicians, so now you see "Patients" tab and "Physicians" tab.

So for example, I am a patient, King Koo, so there is a person account.  I have a doctor called "Dr Wong" - which takes up a contact record, and finally, his clinic is called "Dr Wong Clinic" which takes up a business account.

Now, this is the part where I'm having some challenges.  

1) The Account now has person accounts (Patients) and business accounts (Clinics).  So that led me to wonder, should I have renamed Accounts to Patients?  Can I have two Account tabs, one for showing the person accounts, and one for showing the business accounts?

2) I have originally renamed "Account Name" to "Patient Name" so that when I'm looking at the record for "King Koo", I'll see Patient Name is King Koo.  

However, when I go to the physician record for "Dr Wong", (which is a Contact record, and as you know Account Name is a required field for Contact), you now again see "Patient Name", but that's where I meant to input "Dr Wong Clinic". The fact that the physician record showing a field called "Patient Name" just does not make sense.

I would really like to see "Patient Name" in the form for patients, and like to see "Clinic Name" in the form for physicians.

Is it do-able?

Thanks a lot
King

Hi there

It's been very frustrating because I cannot post questions with Windows 8 on this discussion forum after it's been renovated.

Also when I typed a few keywords and the search results pop up, I click on any of the search results but there won't be anything happening to it.

I have to use my desktop (which is Windows XP) in order to post stuff on to this forum.

I wonder if anybody has the same issue?  I'm running Windows 8, Chrome.    (I understand this is probably not the right place to post this question but I don't know who to ask)

Thanks
King

Hi there

This is weird..  Never thought I've encountered that before.  Is it new...?

The following code works, just as you would expect.

<apex:page standardController="account">
    <apex:repeat value="{!account.contacts}" var="CONTACT">
        <apex:outputField value="{!CONTACT.name}" />
    </apex:repeat>
</apex:page>

However, if I change the outputField to this (only hanged the apex:outputField line),

<apex:page standardController="account">
    <apex:repeat value="{!account.contacts}" var="CONTACT">
        <apex:outputField value="{!contact.name}" />
    </apex:repeat>
</apex:page>

I got this error mssage:
Error: Unknown property 'AccountStandardController.contact'

This is really against what I have believed for a long time that VF is case insensitive.

Has anyone else seen this before?

Note:  I originally had var="Contact".  My above code, var="CONTACT", is simply for illustrations.

Thanks
king

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Hello All,

 

I am trying to complete this lab (8-1 Creating a Custom SOAP Web Service) from 501 Labs.

 

When I did this with the assigned org during our training, I did not have any issues.

 

When I tried doing the same exercise in my own developer edition I am seeing this error.

 

Objective of the exercise : To allow insertion of job candidate and application via webservice API.In this the webservice is called from a VF page.

 

webservice name =

CandidateKeyWebService

and it has a method called "submitEmployeeReferral"

 

This is the contents from the pop up window

 

=========

 

AJAX Toolkit Shell
Features: autocompletion of property names with Tab, multiline input with Shift+Enter, input history with Up/Down Values and functions: ans, print(string), props(object), blink(node), clear(), load(scriptURL), scope(object)


Request: server- /services/Soap/package/CandidateKeyWebService
<textarea cols=80 rows=5 wrap=hard>&lt;se:Envelope xmlns:se="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;&lt;se:Header xmlns:sfns="http://soap.sforce.com/schemas/package/CandidateKeyWebService"&gt;&lt;sfns:SessionHeader&gt;&lt;sessionId&gt;00D90000000qFRD!AREAQMLtrkAQzPhCsf_KMIB5rE5rnPPap0YFtJyDdsz_3GcQs_fom5q7dGXJyBdG1TGaMY83V7CI0.gU.93nw49Bdt5hDKnx&lt;/sessionId&gt;&lt;/sfns:SessionHeader&gt;&lt;/se:Header&gt;&lt;se:Body&gt;&lt;submitEmployeeReferral xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/schemas/package/CandidateKeyWebService"&gt;&lt;a&gt;a009000000PLJx8AAH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;type&gt;Candidate__c&lt;/type&gt;&lt;First_Name__c&gt;a&lt;/First_Name__c&gt;&lt;Last_Name__c&gt;b&lt;/Last_Name__c&gt;&lt;Phone__c&gt;&lt;/Phone__c&gt;&lt;Mobile__c&gt;&lt;/Mobile__c&gt;&lt;Email__c&gt;a@a.com&lt;/Email__c&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/submitEmployeeReferral&gt;&lt;/se:Body&gt;&lt;/se:Envelope&gt;</textarea>


Response : status - 500
<textarea cols=80 rows=5 wrap=hard>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;&lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;&lt;soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;soapenv:Fault&gt;&lt;faultcode&gt;soapenv:Client&lt;/faultcode&gt;&lt;faultstring&gt;No such parameter a defined for the operation, please check the WSDL for the service.&lt;/faultstring&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Fault&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Envelope&gt;</textarea>


faultcode    soapenv:Client
faultstring    No such parameter a defined for the operation, please check the WSDL for the service.

====================

 

Q : I am new to webservices debugging etc and since this error did not come during our training, I am at a loss to understand where and how to start debugging.

 

Can someone point me out in a right direction or give me a clue as to what could be wrong ?

In the User's Guide there is a sample http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_methods_system_test.htm?CSHID=apex_methods_system_test.htm#TestLoadDataExampleSection

of how to use the Test.loadData method to load a csv file with Accounts.

 

I cannot see any documentation nor samples showing how to load records with references (lookup or master-detail) to parent records - e.g. if I want to load Contacts, which refer to Accounts.

 

Anyone who knows. I suppose I am not going to "invent" record IDs????