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DML currently not allowed
This almost belongs in my sarcastically titled, “Meaningful Error Messages ..” series, but as it has traceable causes, I thought I’d write something up on it’s most frequent causes (I meant to write...
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Howto: Communicate between template- and inner- pages.
This post is as much about me asking a question as it is about providing a solution, so don’t let me down community. I got your back, but you’ve got to scratch mine too.. A little to the left, ah yeah,...
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Masking Input on VisualForce Pages
I am a developer and (at least as often) a (l)user. UI and UX design are important from both perspectives, and it’s important to bear this in mind whilst creating any application. What is this waffle...
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VisualForce Element Ids in jQuery selectors
I have retired this approach in favour of a much neater solution that can be found here. This tricky topic had me puzzled for some time and in earlier posts I went the way of using CSS classes to...
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Salesforce Form Validation Enhanced
I have a dream, and in this dream form-validation is not a chore. All the nasty work is done client-side, and we – the developers – control what an error message says and where it says it! Server-side...
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Formatting – PageBlockSectionItem, InputField & OutPutField
There are a collection of forum posts asking why VisualForce formatting isn’t being applied correctly to PageBlockSectionItems and/or InputFields, and the answer isn’t immediately obvious so let’s see...
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Friends Romans Country[wo]men
In an attempt to attend DreamForce this year – I will conquer the Atlantic! – I’ve written up a white paper on a set of tools and workflows that I’ve found superb in more ways than one. I’d be happy...
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Client-Side VisualForce Pagination with Pajinate
Pagination is an essential, and not so easy to implement user interface device that allows the developer to break long lists of items, or one very long item into sub-pages. I love the challenge that...
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Salesforce: A better way to work with jQuery selectors and Visualforce...
I get very sad when discussing this particular topic. There are a variety of ways of get Visualforce component Ids and using them in JavaScript but all of them keep me awake at night. Srsly. A...
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Salesforce: JavaScript Remoting – a different way of thinking
JavaScript Remoting for Apex operates in a very different paradigm from what you might be used to i.e. Visualforce pages have controllers and the two interact through action methods – where this...
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