If you recently used the custom lookup component while working on Salesforce Flows and get this error. We can’t display component ‘flowruntime:lookup’, because it isn’t supported in Classic runtime. Chances are you still are on Classic. The component only works on Lightning. An easy fix is to enable the Lightning runtime in Flows. From Setup,… Read More Fix for flowruntime:lookup Error With Salesforce Flows
Last week I had a challenge of making a API callout to Instagram from Salesforce and then parse the returned JSON content and the mapped the values to become a record for a custom object. Basically each media post and comments becomes a record in Salesforce. First off you can start by reading this article… Read More Parsing Instagram JSON on Apex
Stumbled upon this issue and found an easy fix. You have a VF page that you want to redirect a user to a different website, say for OAuth2 authenticate. window.location.href=’https://api.instagram.com/oauth’; This will not work as the browser will complain about Iframe security or Security sandbox violation. This is because VF page are iframed, to get… Read More Javascript Page Redirect on a VF Page
I just wanted to share that I took the Advanced Force.com Developer exam and passed the first part of the test which is the multiple choice 69 question exam. The exam test your knowledge on advanced topics covering triggers, execution context, visual force pages, standard and custom controllers, running unit test, development lifecycle, data migration… Read More Preparing for the Advanced Force.com Developer Exam
Just sharing some information which I hope some would find useful. I’ve been tinkering around with the Google API Toolkit for Force.com. For starters, these are basically client libraries built on Apex for Force.com that connect to Google API like Google Docs API, Blogger API, Google Calendar API among others. The method for authentication on… Read More Getting the Google Data Authentication for Force.com working
This guide will help you setup Mac OS X Mountain Lion for the Force.com Toolkit for Google Docs API. I assume you already have Eclipse and the Force IDE installed. If not you can follow this route first, then come back here to setup the toolkit. This setup caused me some headache so I’m blogging… Read More Setting up Force.com Toolkit for Google Docs API on Mac OS X