QESTION It’s fairly easy to create an ApexClass in the SOAP Tooling API: This immediately creates the class in your org. However, I would like to be able to utilize the MetadataContainer functionality to create classes in this manner: When I try this, I get an error as follows: Adding a line to populate the Content field …
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QUESTION I’m using the SOAP Tooling API to try and update a CustomField (posting to /services/Soap/T/29.0) The method signature is SaveResult[] update(sObject[] sObjects) – and CustomField extends sObject so it shouldn’t be a problem to send that down the wire. However I encounter: INVALID_TYPE: Must send a concrete entity type. Then I looked at my raw XML on the wire, I can’t say I’m surprised! …
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QUESTION I need to be able to check if an org has Person Accounts enabled via Apex Code as part of package. What’s the best way to do this without making the package require Person Accounts be enabled in any org in which it’s installed? ANSWER Method 1 Try to access the isPersonAccount property on an Account and catch any exception that occurs …
Question How can we know State and Country Picklist is enabled in the Salesforce org or not using Apex code SOLUTION When you enable that feature SFDC creates a countryCode field for each object where the address exists. Then you could check if that field exist using something like this: Other generic option:
Description This article gives you sample code to access the state and country pick-list values if it is enabled in your Salesforce org. Solution Makes sure the state and country picklist is enabled in the ORG. 1. Following is the sample code for accessing all the country codes: 2. Following is the sample code for …
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What do triggers entail “Triggers in Apex can be activated to initiate custom actions either prior to or following modifications to Salesforce records, including inserts, updates, or deletions.” What categories of triggers exist in Salesforce There are two trigger categories Trigger Event Categories Syntax for Triggers “What do Trigger Context Variables encompass?” Sequence of Execution …
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Create a new article Publish a draft Article Set a schedule for archiving a published article “Please be aware that if the scheduledDate is left blank or set as null, the article will be archived right away.” Abort the scheduled archiving of a published article Remove an article from the archived section Delete a draft …
Salesforce stores the comment in object called – ProcessInstanceStep. So you can query like this:
The System.TriggerOperation enum has the following values: The new Trigger context variable Trigger.operationType will return System.TriggerOperation enum during trigger context. If you combine this new context variable and the new Apex switch feature, trigger code becomes much easy to implement and understand. An Example of Using Switch and Enum in Triggers
INTRODUCTION Today, we will discuss the Database.Stateful interface, which plays a crucial role in maintaining state across batch call methods. When working with the Database.Stateful interface, instance member variables of a class retain their values between transactions of the execute() method, while static variables do not support this feature in the context of a Batch …
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