This is with regards to the following conversation (quoted as is from forums) I found in the forums. Any more news on updates would be really helpful. Btw, I work with fairly large SF implementation and would help if you could identify what route to take to approach SF premium support regarding this.

"No additional cost will be applied to use salesforce provided components implemented in terms of Ext.js but we're still working out the licensing details w.r.t. customers and partners that want to build their own pages/components using ext.js functionality directly.

how do we render pages as pdf (prior to VF) ... i am curious because someone mentioned that s(/he) did it outside of SFDC because VF was not available then ....

i am not sure where to look to see how it is done with Scontrols (i am assuming that this was the most powerful one then)

hi, say I have a JSP page I have hosted on an external server. The JSP page refers to an external DB to fetch the data it needs for its fields...

now, i want a VF page to be an exact replica of this (just consider data retrieval from DB -- don't bother about session maintenance and other allied problems)

what would be the best way for this page to function if I want to retain and use the external DB for the VF page?

Do I use web service call outs? or is there another way .. like a realtime appexchange tool?

say, I want to create such a tool for internal purposes (I don't want it to be generic), where can i start?

Is there anything at a higher level than StreamReader to parse XML in Apex? I might be able to get the current issue resolved but it would be great to have anything else also.

As an aside, would someone know when Spring '09  is being released (I will have no need for workarounds once the promised feature set is available).

I'm trying to determine a User's access rights (read only, edit) to a Campaign object at runtime, from Apex, so I can selectively provide custom functionality.

I've looked into UserInfo.getProfileId(); but I really need the "Can Modify Current Campaign" or "Cannot Modify Current Campaign" answer if possible.

Thanks in advance for any help!!

Hi,

Is it possible to force group sections when a VF page is rendered as a PDF doc. So a a form do not get split between pages (example: Never have the signature block span 2 pages). 

I know it's possible to add page breaks in pdf but I don't want to explictly add page breaks and want to only add page breaks if the sections is going to be split bewteen 2 pages.

Please let me know if this is possible in VF or if I take advantage of any pdf functionality.

Thanks in advance.

Is there anything at a higher level than StreamReader to parse XML in Apex? I might be able to get the current issue resolved but it would be great to have anything else also.

As an aside, would someone know when Spring '09  is being released (I will have no need for workarounds once the promised feature set is available).

Hi,

 I want to use the class member variable in the webservice method.

global class test123 { List<Opportunity> selopplist1 = new List<Opportunity>(); WebService static void getFromListPage(String[] IdList) { SelOppList1 = [select Name, Account.Name, Type from opportunity where id in :IdList]; } }

 Here I want to use selopplist1 in the webservice method, but I am getting an error like variable is not declared.

I tried by keeping global as well as webservice keyword before the declaration but still I am getting the same error.

Any help on this highly appreciated

<apex:inputTextarea value="{!inputValue}" id="theTextarea" richText="true" />

1. a div that contains a hidden config value
2. an iframe that contains the editor
3. ...and javascript section that calls the necessary parameters when the page is loaded.

1. Create your visual force page as you see fit. It goes without saying that you should have a rich text block linked to some textarea field in your object.
   
2. Once you've created your page, test it. Using Chrome or Firebug, find out the ids of the divs that get created when the page runs. From the above example, id="theTextarea", might get turned into:
   • The iFrame: "j_id0:j_id2:editBlock:j_id33:theTextarea___Frame"
   • The config block: "j_id0:j_id2:editBlock:j_id33:theTextarea___Config"
   • The textarea: "j_id0:j_id2:editBlock:j_id33:theTextarea"
     (Honestly, you're just interested in the prefix, the "j_id0:j_id2:editBlock:j_id33:" section - You can append the divId and "__Frame", etc...)
   
3. Go back to your visualforce page and add this script block directly under the <apex:inputTextarea> code block.

   <script type="text/javascript">
    setTimeout("swap();",5000);
    function swap() {
     alert("Running function...");
    
     var origFrame = document.getElementById('j_id0:j_id2:editBlock:j_id33:theTextarea___Frame');
     alert("Removing iFrame");
     origFrame.parentNode.removeChild(origFrame);
   
     var configItem = document.getElementById('j_id0:j_id2:editBlock:j_id33:theTextarea___Config');
     alert("Removing config...");
     configItem.parentNode.removeChild(configItem);
   
     alert("Creating new editor...");
     var editor = new FCKeditor('j_id0:j_id2:editBlock:j_id33:theTextarea');
     editor.BasePath = '/apexpages/fckeditor/';
     editor.ReplaceTextarea();
    
     alert("Done...");
    }
   </script>

4. Retest your page. The old editor should disappear and be replaced with the new one which includes all the fancy features of FCK.