Anyone who is an admin for any larger enterprise knows that creating Users can get tedious and over time there are a number of custom fields that you probably have on your User records. The logic I'll demonstrate here will allow you to save a bit of time the next time you need to create a new User. Or you could just take the information from this post to create a "Clone" button on another object - like Account. Because the Account object doesn't have a standard "Clone" button and that may be useful to you as well. [Read More...]

It must be my personality but I always like to know when a batch process has completed and I actually like to know how long it ran. Anyone familiar with batch Apex knows that there is a finish method, which is invoked upon completion of the batch logic. Within this method I will configure and send an email to myself with the start and end times of the batch process that finished. [Read More...]

Depending on your experience you may not think that this is a very important topic. However, those of you that have worked with Enterprise organizations understand that these orgs may have tons and tons of records. For orgs that have millions of records in any given object it may be best to write test code that actually filters the data used within the unit tests so that the test actually completes in a timely manner. This can be especially important for deploying code because test coverage that runs for a long time can cause problems during the deployment process. [Read More...]

One of the items he touched on that spurred a lot of discussion was a custom button he built to pass a value to a report from a detail page of a given record. The resulting discussion was surprising because I really didn’t know that so many admins were unaware of the benefits of creating these custom buttons. And, after participating in the discussion, I thought that this would be a great topic for a blog post because there is so much that you can do if you understand this relatively simple trick. [Read More...]