I have seen Campaigns used for event attendance tracking (whether there's an ROI expected or not).  I have made a one off, simple package for one of my clients.  I haven't seen an AppEx packages for this purpose.  There is EventForce, but that's more for event planning rather than event attendance.  What do you use?  

I'd like to use Campaigns, but I'm wondering if anyone's had any pitfalls with going this route.

Jason Gabler

Hi,

I need if we can export the scheduled report as a excel file.

It now sends the report to your email directly.

Can anyone help me with this.

Thanks,

Sales4ce

Does Force allow to build a fully functional CRM system that would be similar to what SalesCloud offers? You would need at least Enterprise Edition of SalesCloud to have the Webservices API needed for integration with external applications, but any edition of Force already offers that, and it is way cheaper than the SalesCloud. 

Hi,

I have about 50 custom fields for contact object. Is it a good design to have all the fields under contact object or create a new custom object and store some information about that contact in the new object? next, create a lookup relationship between new object and contact? Could anyone please give me suggestion on this? Your help is greatly appreciated.

I have a custom setting that I want to be able to see the value of via the API.

"Custom settings that have Privacy defined as Public are exposed to the API in the same way custom objects are exposed."

But how do I match that to the user I'm logged in as?  It's not like the Id's returned are the same as ProfileIds.

PS: Sorry for the double posting of this.

I'm pretty sure I'm just trying to do some straightforward AJAX here.  When I use oncomplete or reRender widhin actionFunction, I see the following Javascript error (via Firebug):

element.selectNodes is not a function

And the Javascript engine basically choke at this point.   The error happens within the Salesforce AJAX library: 

3_3_0.GAorg.ajax4jsf.javascript.AjaxScript on line 101.  This occurs at a point where the code does a try{selectNodes()} to figure out of it should run either selectNodes() or getElementsByTagName().  If the try{} fails, the catch(){} should run the getElementsByTagName().

I've seen this in FF3.5.6, though things seem to work fine in FF3.0.16.   In IE7 and IE8 I get data back inconsistently.  Generally if I put trash data in yahooProduct and then try good data, I will things will work fine.  However, until I do this special sequence, the AJAX will not work in IE.  I know, this part this sounds like a bug of my own making... probably is... but for the life of me I cannot pin point it.  The code isn't all that complicated.

If I take out oncomplete and reRender, I get no Javascript errors.  Of course, I have no way to see if the AJAX did anything, either.

Strangely, I can find no references to this issue on the discussion boards.  I'm not doing anything particularly fancy.  Anything stand out in my code below?

My Visualforce:

<apex:page standardController="Purchase__c" extensions="PurchaseExtension" recordSetVar="purchases" title="New Purchase">

<apex:sectionHeader title="Purchase Edit" subtitle="New Purchase"/>

<apex:messages layout="table"/>

<style>
td.labelCol {
vertical-align: middle;
}
</style>
<apex:form styleclass="p-form" id="p_form">

<apex:pageBlock title="Purchase Edit" mode="edit">

<apex:actionFunction name="updateProductDetails" action="{!updateProductDetails}" immediate="true" reRender="field_table">
<apex:param name="firstParam" assignTo="{!yahooProduct}" value="" />
</apex:actionFunction>

<apex:outputPanel id="field_table">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol requiredInput">Contact</td>
<td class="dataCol col02" style="height:20px;">
<apex:inputField value="{!p.Contact__c}" required="true"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol requiredInput">Purchase Date</td>
<td class="dataCol col02">
<apex:inputField value="{!p.Purchase_Date__c}" required="true"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol requiredInput">Yahoo! Product</td>
<td class="dataCol col02">
<apex:inputField value="{!p.Yahoo_Product__c}" required="true" onchange="updateProductDetails(this.value)" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol requiredInput">Item Description</td>
<td class="dataCol col02">
<input disabled="true" id="item-desc" type="text" value="{!productDesc}"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol requiredInput">Item Price</td>
<td class="dataCol col02">
<input disabled="true" id="item-price" type="text" value="{!productPrice}"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol requiredInput">Quantity</td>
<td class="dataCol col02">
<apex:inputField value="{!p.Quantity__c}"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol requiredInput">Total</td>
<td class="dataCol col02">
<input id="total" type="text"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="labelCol requiredInput">Ship Date</td>
<td class="dataCol col02">
<apex:inputField value="{!p.Ship_Date__c}" />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</apex:outputPanel>

<apex:inputHidden value="{!p.Name}"/>
<apex:inputHidden value="{!p.Contact__c}"/>

<apex:commandButton value="Save" action="{!save}"/>
<apex:commandButton value="Cancel" action="{!cancel}"/>

</apex:pageBlock>

</apex:form>

</apex:page>

 and my Extension:

public class PurchaseExtension {
public Purchase__c p {
get {
if (p == null)
p = new Purchase__c();
return p;
}
set;
}

public Contact c {
get {
String contactId = Apexpages.currentPage().getParameters().get('id');
if (c == null) {
c = [select c.FirstName,c.LastName from Contact c where c.id = :contactId];
}
return c;
}
set;
}


String productDesc, productPrice;
public String getProductDesc() {
return productDesc;
}
public String getProductPrice() {
return productPrice;
}

String yahooProduct = 'init';
public void setYahooProduct(String p) {
yahooProduct = p;
}
public String getYahooProduct() {
return yahooProduct;
}

public PageReference updateProductDetails() {
if (yahooProduct != null) {
List<Yahoo_Products__c> yp = [select p.Item_Description__c,p.Price__c from Yahoo_Products__c p where p.Name = :yahooProduct];
if (yp.size() > 0) {
productDesc = yp[0].Item_Description__c;
productPrice = ''+yp[0].Price__c;
} else {
productDesc = 'No product details avalable';
productPrice = 'No product details avalable';
}
} else {
productDesc = 'No product?';
productPrice = 'No product?';
}
return null;
}

public PurchaseExtension(ApexPages.StandardSetController ctlr) {
p.Contact__c = c.Id;
p.Purchase_Date__c = Date.today();
}

public PageReference save() {
PageReference pr = null;
// stub
return pr;
}

public PageReference cancel() {
// stub
return null;
}

public static testMethod void testSave() {
Test.setCurrentPage(new PageReference('/?id=003A0000004JoTl'));
List<Purchase__c> pList = new List<Purchase__c>();
ApexPages.StandardSetController ctlr = new ApexPages.StandardSetController(pList);
PurchaseExtension e = new PurchaseExtension(ctlr);
e.c = new Contact(FirstName = 'Foo', LastName = 'Bar');
e.p.Yahoo_Product__c = 'a04A000000101DT';
e.save();
System.assertNotEquals(e, null);
}

public static testMethod void testUpdateProduct() {
Test.setCurrentPage(new PageReference('/?id=003A0000004JoTl'));
List<Purchase__c> pList = new List<Purchase__c>();
ApexPages.StandardSetController ctlr = new ApexPages.StandardSetController(pList);
PurchaseExtension e = new PurchaseExtension(ctlr);
e.setYahooProduct('HistProd');
e.updateProductDetails();
String newDesc = e.getProductDesc();
System.assertNotEquals(newDesc, null);
}
}

I'm getting the following error with IE in the Salesforce javascript supporting Ajax calls ....

Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0) Timestamp: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:00:43 UTC Message: Unknown runtime error Line: 120 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://homewarrantygroup.force.com/faces/a4j/g/3_3_0.GAorg.ajax4jsf.javascript.AjaxScript

The page is hosted in an iFrame and works perfectly in Firefox, but when I click an actionButton in IE, the Ajax callback starts (but doesn't finish) and IE shows this error in the alerts area.

Has anyone else run into this error?  Is there a fix?

Thanks,

Ron