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The Trouble with Dates and Times

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Tony Scott

Dates and DateTimes don’t always play nicely when you’re trying to push them through from environment to environment. You often have to mess about with them a bit to shoehorn them in and out of Salesforce. I’m going to look…

Tagged with: apex, dates, force.com, javascript, JSON, salesforce
Posted in apex, code, force.com, salesforce

Salesforce Lightning Lookup Component : Version 2

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Tony Scott

Version 2 This is Version 2 of the Salesforce Lightning Lookup Component. I had one of those, ‘Why didn’t I do it like that instead?‘ moments in the shower this morning. Essentially, it’s less code as I’ve done away with the rendering…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, javascript, lightning, salesforce
Posted in apex, code, force.com, lightning, salesforce

Salesforce Lightning Lookup Component

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Tony Scott

Note: This article has been superceded by: Version 2. I’ve been playing around with Salesforce Lightning components and one of the obvious things that seems to be missing is a UI component to lookup a record in a Salesforce custom object…

Tagged with: apex, force.com, javascript, lightning, salesforce
Posted in apex, code, force.com, lightning, salesforce

Productivity Tip : Quicker Javascript and CSS development using Dropbox

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Tony Scott

I’ve been working on a Javascript/CSS heavy Visualforce page this week and it can be a real pain tweaking the code, saving the library, zipping up the static resource, uploading it to Salesforce, testing the change and then repeating the…

Tagged with: css, dropbox, force.com, javascript, productivity, salesforce
Posted in code, productivity