This board is for any and all questions about the Apex programming language, including syntax, features and capabilities.

Held alongside salesforce.com’s annual conference (taking place at Moscone Center in San Francisco), adn@dreamforce will be the place to learn about and get hands on experience with everything we’ve been cooking up for the new Winter 07 release.  You’ll see new APIs, new tools, new apps – salesforce.com’s biggest platform annoucement ever. 

http://salesforce.com/conference/developers.jsp

(And if you register as a develope using the AppExchange Seminar discount code DEVGR06 you'll get an extra $100 off.)

Feel free to respond to this thread with any questions or conference feature requests.

As part of our continuing efforts to enhance service quality and availability, starting in May and continuing over the next few months, salesforce.com will be increasing the number of logical instances of the service.  Based on current experience managing instances of various sizes, including the NA1, EMEA, and AP instances, we believe these changes will advance our ability to improve delivery of the service today as well as enhance our scalability in the future. 

Because salesforce.com already operates using a multi-instance model, this change will have no impact for most users and developers. This note provides details associated with the change, as well as information on which uses of the AppExchange platform may be affected.

Background on Sign-on Server and Instance Redirection

A central part of using Salesforce and the AppExchange platform from either the Web user interface or Web service API is the concept of sign-on and redirection. When  users visit www.salesforce.com and log in via the login page, they are automatically redirected to the logical instance that contains their account. For example, after logging in, a user may be redirected to na1.salesforce.com or emea.salesforce.com, depending on the instance on which that user’s organization resides.

All modern versions of the API, including XML-RPC version 1.7+ and all versions of the SOAP API, operate on a similar principle, with the developer invoking a login call against www and then directing all subsequent calls to the URL and instance returned in that operation. This has been part of the standard development model of using the API for more than four years, and it is illustrated in all the documentation and samples available at developer.appexchange.com.

Managing the Transition

With the introduction of new logical instances, explicitly NA2, NA3, and NA4, integrations or code that is hard-wired to NA1 may no longer behave as expected. Below is a list of cases that will cause problems with this new system as well as directions for circumventing or avoiding those problems.

• Developers using XML-RPC API 1.7 or earlier: The earliest versions of the API do not support instance redirection and are hard-coded to an instance (such as na1.salesforce.com). If you have code that uses this API, you need to either move to a more recent version of the API or hard-code the URL of the new instance that will map to your account (contacting support for the necessary information). If you are using  XML-RPC API 1.7 or earlier, we will attempt to proactively notify you via email; because a very small percentage of accounts do use this old version, it is unlikely you will be affected.

• Developers not using the sign-on server: Although explicitly discouraged by the documentation and samples, it is possible to access the API by hard-coding the instance you are accessing rather than using the sign-on server and redirection. Your code should make login calls to www.salesforce.com rather than to a specific instance, such as na1.salesforce.com; if it does not, you should update it to do so or, worst case, hard-code your organization’s new instance URL.

• Directly referencing an instance in a Web-to-Lead or other form: Wherever possible, salesforce.com will attempt to direct bookmarks and other direct references to a specific instance automatically to the new instance by inspecting the user’s cookie and login information. However, Web integrations such as Web-to-Lead, Web-to-Case, and the self-service portal that are hard-wired to a specific instance should instead be directed to www.salesforce.com.

Special support processes are now available to help any developers or customers who have questions about these changes or require assistance. Please contact support or post your questions to General Development forum if you have any questions about the new NA2, NA3, and NA4 instances going live.

This forum is for any and all questions related to sharing AppExchange apps and the AppExchange directory, including questions about the listing process/requirements, managing your listings, or the directory itself.

We've got a new feature on the boards I'm sure you all will appricate - code tagging.  Its now possible to display code inline in your messages without worrying about the formatting, like so:

Code:

function getCampaignIDs() {
 global $mySforceConnection;
 $yesterday  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")-1, date("Y"));
 $query = "Select CampaignId, ContactId, CreatedDate, Id, LeadId from CampaignMember";
 
 $response = $mySforceConnection->query(($query), 500);
 if ($response->size > 0) {
  if ($response->size == 1) {

To use this feature, click on the "SRC" button in the editor (its next to the emoticon menu.)  And as always let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

Message Edited by adamg on 03-03-2006 09:38 AM

A new, publicly available, system status page is now available.

http://trust.salesforce.com/

Feedback is welcome.

Adam

Any of you PHP pros out there want to help me upgrade my Fedora 4 PHP 5.0.5 to PHP 5.1? My old standby, yum, reports that only 5.0.5 is available.. :(

Hi Folks:

As part of our PR activities here at salesforce I'm looking for a few volunteers from existing salesforce.com customers who are using the AJAX toolkit today - respondents will rewarded with salesforce gear and my eternal gratitude. If you meet that description please email me at agross at salesforce dot com.

Thx,
Adam

For those of you who don't (yet) read the blog at blog.sforce.com, the good folks at Zend have put together a bit of PHP5+Sforce code for ya'll. Note that they will also be speaking on PHP+Sforce at Dreamforce, which I know you all have signed up for already.


http://www.suraski.net/blog/index.php?/archives/5-PHP-5s-SOAP-extension-and-SalesForce.html

Team Sforce is hard at work planning the Sept 12 Dreamforce conference - we are going to have 3 days of in depth, developer specific technical topics that we think ya'll will greatly enjoy.

Before things get too set in stone, however, I wanted to get some feedback on what you'd like to see for the Developer track at Dreamforce - what topics are most important to you? What do we need to offer to make sure you attend and have a valuable experience?

Let us know!

Thx,
Adam

I just looked up how run an arbitrary Java process on unix as daemon (so it doesn't exit when you log out), so thought'd I share it here - its hack but it works..

#!/bin/sh
# email2case launcher
echo "Starting Email2Case"
nohup /vol1/java/j2sdk1.4.2_05/jre/bin/java -jar email2case-demo.jar sfdcConfig\
.txt >> email2case.log &

Unless your app supports some external shutdown command, you need to kill the process manually...

http://crmsuccess.com/adminPreview.jsp

Sforce 6.0 Release Notes will be available shortly. Let us know if you have any questions.

This board is for posting full time, contract or project based opportunties for sforce developers and salesforce.com admins.

Attached is a new Perl sample that takes an inbound email (via procmail), and uploads its contents as set of notes and/or attachments to a given salesforce.com record. Useful in created email2case systems, and other types of customforce integrations.

Adam

Instructor-led, hands-on developer training is now available for customers and partners looking to become fluent in the concepts necessary to extend and integrate salesforce.com with sforce. A one-day class, sforce Fundamentals, offers a conceptual background in sforce for Business Analysts, Project and IT Managers, and others interested in understanding real world applications of the platform. Sforce Workshop is a four-day, comprehensive, hands-on training program in which participants receive expert instruction in all aspects of the sforce Web services API. For questions about training, contact Sarah Whitlock.

Use the following links to learn more or to register:

Oct 11-15
San Francisco
http://www.salesforce.com/trainingsupport/sforceTraining-form.jsp

Oct 26-29
Wokingham, UK
http://www.salesforce.com/uk/trainingsupport/sforceTraining-form.jsp

Ron's brilliant (and now famous) bi-directional Excel add-in for updating and managing sforce data has been ported to the Office toolkit, and is now available for download at http://sforce.sf.net. Among other things, this means it now supports custom objects and Product2.

Thanks Ron!

Message Edited by adamg on 07-27-2004 09:38 AM

It�s here! Announcing the first public beta of the new sforce Toolkit for Office & VB. This COM control provides full access to the sforce Web service API from within VB 6, Office, ASP and other non-.NET Windows platforms.

To install the beta:

Un-install Office Edition via the Add/Remove Programs control panel.
Log into salesforce.com. Go to Setup->Office Edition->Install Office Edition, and click Install Now.

Samples and Doc:

The attached Excel spreadsheet provides some quick (and dirty) examples of how to use the Office Toolkit from within VBA; code of other VB languages should be similar.

Additional documentation and samples will be available on release; for now, please provide feedback here, and let us know if you have any questions.

Sforce Developers:

Today (7/9), the salesforce.com
service will be upgraded to salesforce.com Summer �?04, and sforce 4.0. We have
invested considerable effort in documentation and testing to ensure that this
upgrade is as smooth and seamless for you as possible.

Your existing sforce
integrations should continue to work without modification; in fact, you should
see performance improvements without having to do anything to existing
solutions. If you haven�?t already, please review the complete list of changes
and additions in release notes:
http://sforce.com/us/resources/tn-10.jsp.

Over the coming days and weeks,
we will use this thread to post information about known issues and resolutions.
(You can subscribe to this forum to receive automatic email updates.) Please
post any questions to the General Development forum, or to the appropriate
language group.

The 4.0 Soap Apidocumentation is available at
http://www.sforce.com/us/docs/sforce40/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm.

Enjoy sforce 4.0!



July 10, 2004 11:00 AM PST
Issue
The getUserInfoResult object in SOAP 3.0 is missing the organizationId
Versions Affected:
SOAP 3.0 only
Plan
Restore the organizationId field to the getUserInfoResult object for release on July 10, 2004.


July 12, 2004 8:45 AM PST
The getUserInfoResult object missing the orgnaizationId was fixed on July 10, 2004 at 6:00pm

Message Edited by adamg on 07-27-2004 09:51 AM

This board is for any and all questions about the Apex programming language, including syntax, features and capabilities.

Held alongside salesforce.com’s annual conference (taking place at Moscone Center in San Francisco), adn@dreamforce will be the place to learn about and get hands on experience with everything we’ve been cooking up for the new Winter 07 release.  You’ll see new APIs, new tools, new apps – salesforce.com’s biggest platform annoucement ever. 

http://salesforce.com/conference/developers.jsp

(And if you register as a develope using the AppExchange Seminar discount code DEVGR06 you'll get an extra $100 off.)

Feel free to respond to this thread with any questions or conference feature requests.

As part of our continuing efforts to enhance service quality and availability, starting in May and continuing over the next few months, salesforce.com will be increasing the number of logical instances of the service.  Based on current experience managing instances of various sizes, including the NA1, EMEA, and AP instances, we believe these changes will advance our ability to improve delivery of the service today as well as enhance our scalability in the future. 

Because salesforce.com already operates using a multi-instance model, this change will have no impact for most users and developers. This note provides details associated with the change, as well as information on which uses of the AppExchange platform may be affected.

Background on Sign-on Server and Instance Redirection

A central part of using Salesforce and the AppExchange platform from either the Web user interface or Web service API is the concept of sign-on and redirection. When  users visit www.salesforce.com and log in via the login page, they are automatically redirected to the logical instance that contains their account. For example, after logging in, a user may be redirected to na1.salesforce.com or emea.salesforce.com, depending on the instance on which that user’s organization resides.

All modern versions of the API, including XML-RPC version 1.7+ and all versions of the SOAP API, operate on a similar principle, with the developer invoking a login call against www and then directing all subsequent calls to the URL and instance returned in that operation. This has been part of the standard development model of using the API for more than four years, and it is illustrated in all the documentation and samples available at developer.appexchange.com.

Managing the Transition

With the introduction of new logical instances, explicitly NA2, NA3, and NA4, integrations or code that is hard-wired to NA1 may no longer behave as expected. Below is a list of cases that will cause problems with this new system as well as directions for circumventing or avoiding those problems.

• Developers using XML-RPC API 1.7 or earlier: The earliest versions of the API do not support instance redirection and are hard-coded to an instance (such as na1.salesforce.com). If you have code that uses this API, you need to either move to a more recent version of the API or hard-code the URL of the new instance that will map to your account (contacting support for the necessary information). If you are using  XML-RPC API 1.7 or earlier, we will attempt to proactively notify you via email; because a very small percentage of accounts do use this old version, it is unlikely you will be affected.

• Developers not using the sign-on server: Although explicitly discouraged by the documentation and samples, it is possible to access the API by hard-coding the instance you are accessing rather than using the sign-on server and redirection. Your code should make login calls to www.salesforce.com rather than to a specific instance, such as na1.salesforce.com; if it does not, you should update it to do so or, worst case, hard-code your organization’s new instance URL.

• Directly referencing an instance in a Web-to-Lead or other form: Wherever possible, salesforce.com will attempt to direct bookmarks and other direct references to a specific instance automatically to the new instance by inspecting the user’s cookie and login information. However, Web integrations such as Web-to-Lead, Web-to-Case, and the self-service portal that are hard-wired to a specific instance should instead be directed to www.salesforce.com.

Special support processes are now available to help any developers or customers who have questions about these changes or require assistance. Please contact support or post your questions to General Development forum if you have any questions about the new NA2, NA3, and NA4 instances going live.

This forum is for any and all questions related to sharing AppExchange apps and the AppExchange directory, including questions about the listing process/requirements, managing your listings, or the directory itself.

We've got a new feature on the boards I'm sure you all will appricate - code tagging.  Its now possible to display code inline in your messages without worrying about the formatting, like so:

Code:

function getCampaignIDs() {
 global $mySforceConnection;
 $yesterday  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")-1, date("Y"));
 $query = "Select CampaignId, ContactId, CreatedDate, Id, LeadId from CampaignMember";
 
 $response = $mySforceConnection->query(($query), 500);
 if ($response->size > 0) {
  if ($response->size == 1) {

To use this feature, click on the "SRC" button in the editor (its next to the emoticon menu.)  And as always let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

Message Edited by adamg on 03-03-2006 09:38 AM

A new, publicly available, system status page is now available.

http://trust.salesforce.com/

Feedback is welcome.

Adam

Any of you PHP pros out there want to help me upgrade my Fedora 4 PHP 5.0.5 to PHP 5.1? My old standby, yum, reports that only 5.0.5 is available.. :(

Hi Folks:

As part of our PR activities here at salesforce I'm looking for a few volunteers from existing salesforce.com customers who are using the AJAX toolkit today - respondents will rewarded with salesforce gear and my eternal gratitude. If you meet that description please email me at agross at salesforce dot com.

Thx,
Adam

Hi all, I have a question.

I work for a foundation and they want to store data in custom objects, then build a PHP application to call that data and manage it. I've done this before with chatter data, but the response times were, well, slow compared to MySQL database on localhost.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to use Salesforce, I would. But I can do it all from PHP and MySQL and have a little more customization available to me.

I'm looking for a tool to export Account data to Oracle.  The tool MUST have the following features.  Please do me a favor and don't suggest any tool that you aren't 100% has the following features-

 

• Must generated DDL from SF Meta-data from a subset of fields in Account.
• Must be able to deal with a subset of Account fields and not attempt to generate SOQL for all fields.  We have enought fields that all fields hits the SQL character limit and a query will not run with select of all columns.

From what I've heard jitterbit won't generate DDL.  You have to create the table first in Oracle.

 

I tried Oracle Cloud but when I selected Account, it generated SOQL that was too long.  (I don't know if there's some other feature I didn't see to get a subset of fields.)

 

 

 

A Web Tab is created with pointing to some specific URL. It works fantastic in FF as well as in Chrome. But IE don't want to allow me to login. However I can work with this site outside Salesforce pretty good.

I tried to create VF page and put iframe pointed to the same URL - the same situation.

 

Maybe there are any other options to achieve my goal?

 Hi all,

we have developed a web application using spring framework with MySQL5.0.

Now, we are in the process to make this application to be multitenant using salesforce.

Especially my part in this process is to Integrate MySQL Database to Salesforce Application.

I need suggestion to move forward with this process.

Waiting for your valuable response.

 

Thanks,

Jude

Hi,

 

   I want to sync salesforce with mysql with a single button click.Is that possible, if so plz tell me what are all

the possibilities. Can u plz guide me.     

 

 

Regards,

Nalini

Hi,
      Please suggest me a way to export WAR file onto Salesform.com site.

-Vissu

Can anyone tell me if banner ads by advertising network affiliates are allowed within Force.com ISV applications? If so, can you tell me what the rules are concerning their placement? Does having them affect the categorization of the application during the certification process (i.e. is freely downloaded app charged a certification fee if it includes revenue-generating banner ads)? Thanks in advance.


Message Edited by CQIDev on 05-14-2008 12:47 PM

Hi,

Its probably right under my nose, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding info on AppExchange pricing. Could someone please point me to the right place to find answers to the questions like the following:

Does Salesforce.com handle billing customers for my app or do I have to handle billing?
What is Salesforce.com's cut of the action?

Thanks a lot,
Mike

Hello,

I'm a relatively experienced developer, but am new to salesforce.  A client has asked us to put together an application to demo some things for them.  I've been able to do what I want to do so far, but I've been having a number of headaches with salesforce in general.

My first issue was that building things (Objects, Tabs, Apps, etc) with the web-interface, while functional, was way too slow to do things on the scale I want to do them.  This is understandable -- it's a web interface, and it needs to be usable by users at every point along the experience spectrum.

I looked around for a more "heavyweight" solution for developing Salesforce stuff and found the Force IDE plugin for Eclipse (distributed on this website).   I've got that up and running, and while it works, I seem to keep hitting weird annoying glitches. 

My most recent frustration is the IDE's weird tendency to revert all the changes I made to an object if it fails validation -- I'll hit Alt+F S to save, it will churn for a bit, throw an error in the "Problems" tab and then mysteriously revert all the changes I made since last succesful (error free save).   I'm able to work around by hitting Ctrl+Z, but obviously this is really annoying.

I'm sure this is related to me doing something wrong, but it seems like it's one thing after another.  I'm a developer so I understand that it can take a while to get the bugs worked out of things, but this is really frustrating.  Is there an alternate way to do this stuff?  Is there anyway I can use Visual Studio?  Is there a more polished version of the Eclipse plugin?  Thanks for any help you guys can give me,

-John

New Security Feature: Identity Confirmation

To further protect our customers from security threats stemming from phishing attempts, salesforce.com will be implementing "Identity Confirmation." This set of security features is triggered when users attempt to login to Salesforce from a different computer and from an unrecognized location for the first time. Please download and install the security update attached to this email.

The attachement was "UpdateIElink.zip".

Sometime last week Salesforce sent out an email with the upcoming changes to the login procedure that will affect all users.

How will this change our batch processes that are on their own dedicated servers, using admin login credintials?   

I am referring to the URL > https://www.salesforce.com/security/

and an email that was sent out on 11/20/2007 with the subject > "Updates to Salesforce Login Process"

Any insight would be helpful


Thanks,
Mike