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Currency Formatting in APEX Salesforce (Make use of the current user’s Locale)

Quick update to my previous post on Currency Formatting in APEX, to utilize the currently logged in User’s Locale settings to identify the Currency, Thousand Delimiter and Decimal Delimiter Symbols. Code it available in GitHub here. You can call the method like this. String sValue = '1234567890.0123'; System.debug(clsFormatCurrency.FormatCurrencyByCurrentUserLocale(sValue, true)); Happy Coding!

Currency Formatting in APEX

While apex:inputField can handle the formatting of a CURRENCY data type field gracefully, formatting a number variable to currency to display in outputText is a little complicated. Here is a small APEX method that can take the Currency Symbol and the Delimiter to format it for you. public class clsCurrencyFormat { public static String FormatCurrency(String sValue, String sCurrencySymbol, String…

You would have seen my other post on jQuery based Sort, Filter and Pagination in Force.com (Here is the link, in case you have missed it).

It does a lot (Sort, Filter, Paginate), fast, and looks nice too.

However, it becomes slow when there are lots of records (a few hundred thousands to run through).

When you have to pick one record or few records from a few hundred thousand records, you need a…

jQuery Mobile in Force.com

jQuery Mobile is one of the many Mobile Development Frameworks supported by Salesforce.com (Force.com Platform).

jQuery Mobile or any other HTML 5 / Javascript based mobile development frameworks are not as good as the native development platforms, like iOS, Android, etc, when it comes to faster / graphic intensive UI presentation.

However, you can still do magic with these frameworks, especially…

jQuery Mobile in Force.com with SObjects.js

Salesforce Mobile SDK has set of JS files to directly access Salesforce Objects (Standard and Custom objects) without using APEX.

Here is a simple Employee Register (same example from the previous post, in a different approach) using this SDK.

And, the source code is in GitHub (file name qmEmployeeInfo.vf).

Happy Coding!

Customizing Salesforce1 Mobile App.

While Salesforce1 mobile app comes with a pretty and very intuitive UI, we can further customize it in several ways.

One of the easy way is to develop a Visualforce page and make it available in Salesforce1.

Here are the steps to do so.

1. Develop a Visualforce page that will look good in Mobile / Tablet screens.

Refer my previous post, here, on developing Visualforce pages (qmEmployeeInfo3) with…

Cisco Image Push in C#

Cisco gives us a set of standard XML formats to push content (from Text to Image to Audio Clips, etc) to IP Phones.

We need the following things to do a simple image push.

IP Address of the Cisco IP Phone (For example, 192.168.1.23).

Application User Name…

jQuery Mobile in Force.com with SObjects.js

Salesforce Mobile SDK has set of JS files to directly access Salesforce Objects (Standard and Custom objects) without using APEX.

Here is a simple Employee Register (same example from the previous post) using this SDK.

And, the source code is in GitHub(fi…

jQuery Mobile in Force.com

jQuery Mobile is one of the many Mobile Development Frameworks supported by Salesforce.com…

Have you ever doubted a nexus between Google and LinkedIn?

What happens when a trigger goes in a loop?

Say an Update trigger contains an Update / Upsert statement.

You will get “Maximum Trigger Depth Exceeded” error. And, all the updates will be rolled back.

But, what actually happens internally?

According to…

You would have seen my other post on jQuery based Sort, Filter and Pagination in Force.com (Here is the link, in case you have missed it).

It does a lot (Sort, Filter, Paginate), fast, and looks nice too.

However, it becomes slow when there are lots of…

Everyone wants to scramble their production data before they give it out for testing.

I also had the same requirement.

However, I was required to do something more.

Scrambled Data should pass some regular expression validations.

For example, Name should…

Mass Deleting of Custom Object Data in Force.com (Salesforce) made easy. Executing a small piece of… http://wp.me/s43ymI-32

Thanks to @bartaz, we have got some really impressive HTML and CSS3 stuff.

This can help you in building a cool home page for your website.

Check out the navigation possibilities.

We have made a minor enhancement to include menu highlight.

Find the source…