<apex:actionStatus>

Action status is usually used to show the status of an Ajax Process to which it is related to. It can be as simple as showing text during the update to as fancy as greying out the page and showing a loading gif. your imagination (and HTML CSS skills) are the limits

How to activate Summer ’13 Preview on sandbox

The salesforce.com Summer ‘13 release is quickly approaching and soon you'll be able to take advantage of exciting new features and functionality! If you are a Force.com Sandbox customer, you have the opportunity to get early access to Summer ‘13 in your Sandbox and test new customization and features (the chance to get your feet wet) before your production organization is upgraded.

Escalate Question to Case

This is a very useful need at times requested by clients.  “Escalate Question to Case” / “Create Case from a question” / “Convert Question to case” in either customer portal , Partner portal, or any self serve portal.

In the answers portal, when we are required to Escalate the question to a case so that the executives can handle it. Salesforce provides this functionality internally but its a little tricky to turn it on and in this post I want to address this.

Second Meetup in Cochin announced- Salesforce.com Kerala User Group

The Salesforce Kerala User Group- the official meeting point of Force.com enthusiasts in Kerala and around is thrilled to announce its second Meetup event to be held on April 11^th, 2013 at the IMA Hall, Palarivattom, Cochin. A sequel to the Meetup in October which was the first of its kind in Kerala, the upcoming one has an agenda designed to take you a step higher. This is a great platform for any and every one of you with a link to the ‘cloud’ to get together and swap ideas, share your experiences and learn about exciting new trends in the market today.

Visualforce To Excel

In this short post I want to explain how we can generate an excel output from a VF page.  We already know to how to generate a PDF from VF page. (Read more to find out how). One of the common requirements is to convert a VF page with data into an Excel sheet, here are some things you may want to keep in mind

1. Use a separate VF page for export. It is advisable to use a separate VF page to export off, reason being, usually the VF page in which data resides contains buttons, links images etc. and that is not something you usually want in your excel
2. Use <apex:dataTable> : this gives you a consistent output and works for both windows and MAC. (Thank you Pratyush Kumar  for the Info)
3. Proper validation : Before the export page is reached, make sure all validations to ensure data will be present is  a good practice

Spring ‘13 Release Rituals

The much awaited Spring ‘13 webinar was yesterday 30-JAN-2013. It was exciting and thanks to Pat Paterson(@metadaddy) and Samantha (@samantha_ready) for the amazing webinar presentation which covered the thrilling topics of spring 13 like

• Tooling API, 
• Connect in Apex,
•  Canvas 
•  Connected apps.

Reload Standard Detail page from Inline VF

 

I just faced a small block, Pretty simple once you've figured it out, Thought of sharing it and saving time for us in the future. Most of the time we require to reload the Standard Page following an  action on the inline VF Page. The solution to this was not apparently available to me when I needed it. Usually after clicking on a link or button we need to refresh the standard (parent page) the VF page is in. Read more on how to add inline VF Pages

Problem: A VF page is inline on a standard detail Page, On click of button inside VF Page, Reload the standard Detail Page once action completes in the Inline VF page