Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Process execution order

I think it's really important to understand the execution order of some of the processes in Salesforce.  For example, you need to know that when saving a record, validation rules will be executed before assignment, and assignment takes place before workflows.  Finally, escalation rules will get fired.

Do note that there are a lot more processes happening in the background (triggers, for example).  To understand Salesforce, and to study for your exam, make sure you know the complete order of execution!!


Attributes for : showHeader, sidebar, standardStylesheets

As you know the most simplistic Visualforce page can look like this:

<apex:page>
<h1>main title</h1>
content
</apex:page>

You can provide attributes such as showHeader and sidebar to determine whether you want to show the header or sidebar, respectively, simply by setting the values to true or false, such as:


<apex:page showHeader="true" sidebar="false">
<h1>main title</h1>
content
</apex:page>


Do note that if showHeader is set to false, then sidebar will also be hidden!

Note also, that simply by setting showHeader = false, it does NOT mean you are not using the Salesforce's stylesheets (i.e. Salesforce stylesheets are still being applied).  If you do not want to use any Salesforce's stylesheets at all, then you also need to use the standardStylesheets attribute and set it to false.

What I intend to cover in this blog.....

I received my Force.com Developer and Administrator certifications, and I plan to keep going to take the Sales Cloud and Service Cloud Consultant Certification exams, so this blog will have a combination of everything there is to know and learn about Salesforce.com.  I'm going to use tags to distinguish between topics, and I hope that will be helpful!!

Trust me, some of these posts will be very very beginner's information but I will also try to post something that are more advanced as time goes on.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

My First Post

Today is 11 September 2012 (wow has it been 11 years already....?)

After passing my Salesforce Force.com Developer exam in April, I kept studying Salesforce and as of yesterday I had also passed my Salesforce Administration exam.

I finally decided it's time I put together what I have learned in a blog.  So this is what this blog site is going to be about.

kk