Computers, Music, and Thoughts
This is a post on how to successfully embed a Wave dashboard in Visualforce with multiple datasource filters in Summer 17. If you found errors, fixes, or need help please comment and I’ll respond/update the post, thanks! Wave err…Einstein Analytics as Marketing has now re-branded Wave, is a little spotty on documentation. It assumes you drive…
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…
The question of whether all of your users have access to an object is an issue with VisualForce, specially when dealing with related lists. Unlike a standard page layout which has the logic built-in to not show related lists that a user does not have access to, Visualforce does exactly what you tell it to regardless….
In order to drive data quality and usability it is sometimes helpful to show items from the ‘Recently Viewed’ table or straight from the object using the ‘LastViewedDate’ or ‘LastReferencedDate’. When accessing items from List Views, Reports, or Search the recently viewed fields are updated automatically (duh right?). When accessing a record from a custom…
Recently had a need to create an email template in Salesforce.com for Marketing that included about 10 images. The recommended method for storing those documents is to put them in ‘Documents’ and make sure they are ‘Externally Available’. Not files…or Content…Documents. See what I did there? Called out that there are three different file/CMS stores…