I have  the following relationship query instantiated to a Map<>:

Map<Id, Account> accountsMap = new Map<Id, Account>([
select a.id, a.Name, a.Active_Support_Contract__c,
(select s.id, s.status__c, s.status, s.name, s.accountId, s.recordType.name from a.ServiceContracts s)
from Account a where a.id in :accountIds]);
.
.
.
Account account = accountsMap.get(aid);

if (account.ServiceContracts != null) {...} // "Attempt to de-reference a null object"
if (account.ServiceContracts.size() != 0 {...} // "Attempt to de-reference a null object"
for (ServiceContract sc : account.ServiceContracts) {} // "Attempt to de-reference a null object"

I've tried several ways of accessing the Account's ServiceContracts. Everything works fine in my sandbox but when I'm ready to deploy to production, I get the errors above.

The log files are not helpful either. 

From a visualforce page, I need to retrieve our organization's salesforce instance's URL, and not the visual force URL.

For example I need https://cs1.salesforce.com instead of https://c.cs1.visual.force.com

Here's what I've tried so far and the outcome I got:

1. Accessed the Site global variable from the VF Page .
   
   <apex:outputText value="{!$Site.Domain}" /> returns null
   
   Sidenote: Everything in $Site.xxx seems to return null.
   
   
2. From the Apex controller
   
   

    public String getSfInstance()
    {
    return ApexPages.currentPage().getHeaders().get('Host');
    }

   
    public String getSfInstance()
    {
    return URL.getSalesforceBaseUrl().toExternalForm();
    }

    

   returns c.cs1.visual.force.com and https://c.cs1.visual.force.com, respectively.

    

   Question: How do I retrieve the right instance: https://cs1.salesforce.com?

Hi,

I was wondering if there's a way to forcefully send an email of scheduled reports and dashboards, instead of waiting for the scheduled refresh time?

Every now and then I need to have an email version of the report/dashboard immediately so I can forward it to colleagues who have no Salesforce access.

Cheers,

Jan 

I'm currently working on a standard controller extension for ServiceContract which is invoked via a custom button on the detail page.

The custom button takes the user to a visualforce page. As I'm the developer however, Salesforce, by default, will automatically show the page editor for the corresponding visualforce page and controller.

As I'm coding/testing out the page and its controller, a couple of annoyances happen which I can't find workarounds for.

1. The visualforce page has a cancel button (which uses the standard cancel action) which upon clicking DOES take the user to the ServiceContract detail page, but the URL remains in the https://Salesforce_instance/apex/myNewPageName, as opposed to https://Salesforce_instance/servicecontractId.

How should I implement the buttons so that the URL will correctly change?

Additionally, the page editor remains after I'm redirected to the detail page (which might be related to the non-changing URL). This, I think, lead to #2

2. Everytime I click the custom button on the ServiceContract detail page - invoking the above controller, another page editor is rendered. If i keep doing that eventually I'd get something like this:

 Are these bugs, or am I doing something wrong?

I was wondering if it's possible to display messages/notifications to let the user know that a trigger has run.

There's concerns over a trigger automating too much so it would be nice to somehow let the user know that a trigger has made changes.