Month: November 2013

Hiding selected Side bar custom components(HTML)

There are times in the project where we have to have some UI changes done on the Standard pages. For example, you may have to change the label of the ‘open Activities’ related list on a particular object’s standard page. To achieve this functionality we usually write a simple javascript / jquery script in the side bar component (of type HTML) and then that will do the work. So there are scenarios where multiple team might have implemented such functionality and this results in a lot of sidebar components showing up on the UI which will not make sense to the End Users

In the below code one have to just enter the name of the such side bar components and then that side bar component will be automatically hidden.

//Referencing the jQuery library from the static resource
<script src="/resource/jQuerylib"></script>
<script>
	
var j$ = jQuery.noConflict();
//Add All the name of the components that you want to hide.
var hideComponentArray = ['component1','component2','HideSideBarComponents'];
j$(function(){
   j$("h2.brandPrimaryFgr").each(function(){
      if(j$.inArray(j$(this).text(), hideComponentArray) != -1){
         //Hiding the entire div.
         j$(this).parent("div.sidebarModuleHeader").parent("div.htmlAreaComponentModule").hide();
      }
    });
});
</script>

Storing Javascript object in local storage

I was working on a chrome extension where I wanted to store javascript objects in localstorage and retrieve it later. But I was unable to do so with just setting the javascript objects in localstorage. I had to first stringify it and then parse it. 


//create a javascript object array.
 var team = [{lead:'Monica',projectManager:'Ross',intern:'Chandler'},
	     {lead:'Joey',projectManager:'Rachel',intern:'Phoebe'}];

//Store it in the localstorage and name it localStr.
localStorage.setItem('localStr',JSON.stringify(team));

//Retrieve the data and parse it back to JSON.
var retrieveData = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('localStr'));

//Write the data to the console.
console.log('and the lead of team 1 is '+ retrieveData[0].lead);

Uploaded another extension on Chrome : Salesforce code Coverage extractor

I have taken this extension out now.. Need to implement some changes. . Will be back up soon

This extension will help admin / developers to extract the overall code coverage from the developer console. All they have to do is hover over the Overall code coverage section and then click on the [Extract Data] link and then you have the csv downloaded. 

You can also extract SOQL and SOSL results in the same manner from the developer console.

You can get the extension here:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/salesforce-code-coverage/lmndofengngdnomiikmhmhfddhgahnio

Uploaded my first salesforce extension on Chrome store

I have finally managed to upload my chrome extension which will help developers to search a string in their code.

You can download it from here:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/salesforce-advanced-code/lnkgcmpjkkkeffambkllliefdpjdklmi

A similar extension is also available on Mozilla as well. You can download it from here.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sforcecodesearch/