Amazon Web Services has announced the opening of the Frankfurt region, which is the second region in the European Union after Ireland. Two availability zones (AZs) are offered and Amazon reported that the Frankfurt region operates carbon-free, just as the US West (Oregon) and GovCloud regions do. The Frankfurt region supports a large number of AWS services and a full listing of services available from all AWS regions is available in Amazon’s Products and Services by Region page. While on the Products and Services by Region page, one may notice that there are also 3 Frankfurt AWS Edge locations, of particular … Read More
Changing Standard Labels and Tabs
Administrators have the ability to change standard field labels in Salesforce.com. However, changing these labels is not the same as changing a custom field label, this functionality can be overlooked if you are unaware that it exists. To change standard field labels and tab names you’ll need to navigate to: Customize | Tab Names and Labels | Rename Tabs and Labels From here you can see all standard tabs Once you select the standard object you want to edit, and navigate to step two you can find a full list of editable standard fields. Make your changes here and click Save. … Read More
Salesforce Orders
Introduced in Spring ’14, Salesforce Orders create an agreement between your company and a customer to provision services or deliver products with a known quantity, price and time. Salesforce Orders brings Sales and Service processes closer to one another and bridges the GAP between Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. One can create Orders from Contracts and/or Accounts. Reduction Orders and Negative Quantity allows users to process returns and reduce services. After an order is created – Account and Contract fields on an Order cannot be modified. Orders follow the sharing model of it’s Account. Some considerations: Users must have the “Active Orders” … Read More
AWS RDS Automatic Patching for MySQL 5.5 and 5.6
Oracle has announced security vulnerabilities and associated software patches affecting MySQL 5.5 and 5.6. Sure the security vulnerabilities and patches are news. But the thing we wanted to point out is that AWS RDS is taking care of it for us and our customers. Now, this isn’t always what everyone wants (automatic patches) since there may be cases where you want more time to test that extends beyond the automatic update window. However, we find the trade-off is usually worth it since the service alerts you and gives you a few days to review the reasons and get everything in … Read More
3 Main Features of Salesforce File Sync
Salesforce File Sync is a Cloud Based Management System that allows users to easily sync files to their salesforce org. The three main features of Salesforce File Sync are: Sync Share Collaborate Sync: To use Salesforce File Sync, users download a desktop application which provides a folder for synced files. Files in the Salesforce File Folder are automatically synced with salesforce and can be accessed from the user’s desktop or the salesforce org. Share: Users can share synced files using chatter or through an external collaborator using a link. Collaborate: Once files are shared, people who have access to … Read More
Migrating changes between Org’s using Change Sets in Salesforce.com
The easiest way to send configuration changes from one organization to another is to use a change set. To send customizations from your current organization to another organization, you create an outbound change set. Once you send the change set, the receiving organization sees it as an inbound change set. Change sets can only contain changes that you can make through the Setup menu, and they don’t support every type of component that can be customized. You also can’t use change sets to rename or delete a component. If you make changes that aren’t supported by a change set, you … Read More
Force.com Development Lifecycle
A sandbox is a copy of your production organization. Sandboxes contain the same metadata—which is configuration information such as the types of custom objects and fields, applications, and workflows—as your production organization. That metadata, as well as data in the case of a full sandbox, is copied to a new organization, completely isolated from your production organization. Operations you perform in your sandbox don’t affect your production organization, and vice versa. Sandboxes are available in Enterprise, Unlimited, and Performance Editions. With Unlimited and Performance Edition, you can create multiple sandbox copies of different types. These sandboxes can be used for … Read More
Components of a Web Service
While building a Web Service (WS), you will design a Consumer Class and an Implementation Class. An Implementation Class contains code/methods that are to be shared with different Consumers. Easiest way to go about the design would be a create an Interface for the Implementation Class and any Consumer would consume the Implementation Class through the Interface i.e. they will call the implementation through the interface, they get to know the contract, and the methods of the implementation through the interface. An Interface is a standard way in which you can share any contract like this with a Consumer. When you … Read More