SFDCTimes

While working on a Salesforce migration project where I was asked to export a set of attachments from one Salesforce Org to another, I developed this tool. The customer had millions of attachments in their source Org and only a few thousands had to be migrated. What are the existing options in the market? Few of the existing options suggested by different people were: Use Weekly Export. I could use it but I only had to export a few thousand attachments from millions and I can only run it once a week. Use dataloader.io. The free version only allows me to extract limited records on a day. Where can I download this from? I developed a JAR file which did the job for me and wanted to share it with everyone.  Download URL: https://www.crossdoor.io/sfdcfiles/ There are 2 files build.properties SFDCFiles.jar First step is to setup build.properties with the Org credentials and SOQL to extract data from. How to run this? To run this Jar file execute the below command o...

We all are seeing that Salesforce1 is evolving with every passing day and there is yet lot to be done. One of the many items is a custom lookup field on a Visualforce page. Lightning design systems do provide us with the CSS we can use to create lookup fields the logic has to be written by the developer. Below is a basic example that can be used to implement the basic autocomplete version of the lookup field. The auto complete text box is implemented using the CSS provided by Salesforce1  lightning design . The Visualforce page uses Visualforce remoting to fetch records based on the user input. A call to the controller method is made every time a keyup event is fired and the results are updated.