Web to leads are a wonderful tool – right from your blog/website, you can collect information from your visitors, and begin to nurture a relationship with them. But one of the pains many people have is the fact that Country is a text field. I think of our friends from the south, and I realize…
Time Saver #1 – Linking to an email template
That old adage – “it’s the little things that kill” can be oh so true. I’ve decided that a blog entry each month will be based around a time saver that some people may know, but it is one that can be a time saver, and be one of those little Salesforce.com customizations that can…
My Top 13 for the Decade
Hey all, Hope you had a great holiday season, and rang in the new decade with pomp, circumstance and most of all safety! First blog post of the new decade, and I thought I’d look back at the last 10…nothing to do with Salesforce this time – just some good ol’ music talk! Now, those…
…Different Names For The Same Thing…
So, for the past year, one of the items on my list has been “get an introduction to Visualforce (also shortened to VF by many) and Apex”. As you have likely heard, these two development languages are slightly important in the cloud world known as salesforce.com – with these you can build all sorts of…
5 Apps that I’m Thankful For
So, it is Thanksgiving Thursday. Well, that would likely mean much, much more if I lived south of the border, but I still have been able to work while watching 3 absolute football blowouts, and the Senators hockey game on TV! As it is Thanksgiving, it’s been fun to sit an watch Twitter, to see…
Making a List, and Checking It Twice…
So, I just noticed that it has been over three months since the last blog posting. Bad Nik…bad bad Nik! Of course, this week is Dreamforce ’09, and while I cannot be there in person, I plan on following vicariously through tweets and at www.dreamforce.com as much as possible. One of things I loved the…
Please delete me…
A question came across Twitter today – how can I mass delete from a related object. A great, free little application on the Salesforce.com Appexchange – Mass Delete – helps out with this, but it only comes with standard objects. Also, with the increase of wonderful, popular appexchange apps, some are running into limits for…
Traveling in a pod of whales…
Wow – two months since my last blog. Apologies folks – for those of you who came back to see if anything was new. Lots is…. Where have I been? Well, it is the summer time, and as a dad, there have been MANY weekends where I have been travelling with my daughter to her…
Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon…
Wow – as I look at the calendar today, I realize the importance of the 15th of April… Today, xLerate turns one year old. And with that, I feel very proud. Looking at numbers and statistics (ah, how we love and loathe them all at the same time) people passed on to me when I…
Two Updates From Salesforce.com
So, with the beginning of April comes a little spring cleaning from Salesforce.com. Received a couple of emails around some enhancements to the Salesforce application, one incorporated now, and another released on Monday, April 6. 1. – Changes to Email detail page in Customer and Partner Portal Currently, there is no differentiation between the email…