Passing Your Salesforce ADM201 Certification Exam

Making a Field Appear Required on a Visualforce Page

I’ve been working on a force.com app with the requirement that a user must enter a valid email address on a Visualforce page before being able to save a record, but they must also be able to insert the related contact’s email address by…

Rebuilding the Apple Mail Envelope Index

Some time ago, I set up my Gmail account in Apple Mail to copy over messages which were…

Salesforce Flows, Visualforce, and Record Context

I was asked to find a solution for our field reps that would simplify the process of adding a completed task to their activities when they visited one of our retail stores. We keep our retail locations in Salesforce.com as contacts under a…

AppleScript to Compress Files and Folders

I had the need to select several folders at once in the Mac OS Finder and zip them up…

Salesforce 4-Digit Year Validation

I had an ask from the business for users to enter a year into a text field for a project I’m…

Sharing Parent/Child Accounts With One Sharing Rule

I received a request to temporarily share the child accounts under a single parent account with a second rep so he and the owner could work as a team to do a blitz on the schools within a single school district.

AppleScript to Toggle the Desktop

Here’s an AppleScript I use to quickly toggle desktop visibility for taking screenshots and recording screencasts. Thought I’d share it with the world.

Copy and paste the code below into AppleScript Editor, or your editor of choice, compile and…

Top Chrome Extensions Every Salesforce Administrator Needs

A Fresh Beginning

I’ve hosted my own WordPress site for the better part of ten years. During that time, I used at least 20 different theme…