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If you have gotten the following message: Failed to parse detail: START_TAG seen …</sf:exceptionMessage><sf:upgradeURL>… @1:752 due to: com.sforce.ws.ConnectionException: unable to find end tag at: START_TAG seen …</sf:exceptionMessage><sf:upgradeURL> … @1:752 Or something like that while trying to load in to Salesforce.com Data Loader, try upgrading your version. I had 35.00 and 37.00 both fail where a…
When doing PDF’s in Salesforce.com one thing that can be tricky is dynamic content caught between the page break. Signature block being a good example of something that you want kept together on the page. Using the CSS ‘page-break-inside’ can work 100% the first time or if you have a busy page with lots of…
Adding Custom Fields to a Change Set can tedious. A quick way to add a bunch of fields to a Salesforce.com outbound change set is to create a report with those fields and save it, add the report to the change set, and then click the “View/Add Dependencies” and viola!~
If you are using CSVFIX and running UNIQUE against a large data set you have to remember that CSVFIX loads the entire file in to memory to do the processing. So if you get this…check and watch your environments memory. Mine only had 3gig…it could use a little more for parsing 3+ million rows. ERROR:…
Sometimes I get SAP data that is quoted with both single quotes and double quotes. The data looks something like this: “‘001′”,”’01′”,”‘100123′”,”‘#’”,”‘#’”,”‘#’”,”‘100123′” CSVFIX will strip out the extra single quotes with the following command: csvfix read_dsv -s “,” -csv Input_File1.csv > Output_File1.csv Seems unneeded but otherwise your output is double quoted. I blame SAP. The…
Update Oct 2017 – For most csvfix commands the ‘-ifn’ command will also skip the first line. I say most as I know that it does not work for “read_dsv” which is ok as long as you are not combining files in addition of converting to CSV. The below solution is also good if you’re getting output…
In Salesforce.com, when you set up a Visualforce page to ‘renderas’ to export to PDF, there are lots and lots of constraints. I’m going to do a larger post on some of the tips and tricks to get PDF’s in Visualforce looking nice without hardcoding every style. Today’s silly admin trick is how to get alternate…
My game machine is or was a smoking i7 hog with all the bells and whistles of the day but even after some small memory and SSD upgrades is still 5+ years old. And I have a lot of stuff that barely worked on Win7…so I’m probably going to pass on upgrading it to Windows…
To view header info in Office 2016 from the email list, right click and click ‘View Source’ and this will allow you to see all the email info. To view header info from the Web Client click in to the email and the drop down beside the ‘Reply All’ button in the top right there’s…
It is a strange use case but for certain situations where you want to disable functionality due to the status of a record, bootstrap offers the handy dandy ‘disable’ class that works for drop downs, buttons, and links. Button’s works without fuss and when disabled are totally not clickable but to get a dropdown to mimic…