Category: formula
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Quick Guide to Stunning 3D Buttons using SVG VisualForce
This article gives an example of how to use an SVG VisualForce page to generate images for buttons. The button is a formula that uses HYPERLINK() and IMAGE() functions that link to a VisualForce page passing parameters color and text. HYPERLINK( “/” + Id + “/e” , IMAGE( “/apex/ButtonImage?color=” + CASE( TEXT( Industry ), ‘Retail’, ‘darkgreen’,…
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Revolutionize Your Reports and Page Layouts with SVG: an innovative field format
If you add a long text field to a report, you may end up with something undesirable like the image below: a field of plain text squeezed and stripped of any formatting. The “normal” way of fixing that would be to create a plain text field and use a workflow to copy the first 255 characters…
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Unlock the Power of Color in Your Reports and Page Layouts
Other than using Rich Text fields, there are rigid limits in regards to how fields appear on a page layout or report. In the Account report below, you can see a text field that appears in different colors depending on the industry of the account. This article shows one way to obtain that functionality. Below is the formula used…
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Optimize Complex Salesforce Formulas: 3 Proven Steps
This article was also posted in LinkedIn: 3 Steps to optimize a complex formula in Salesforce. The formula below was created straight from the client requirements and didn’t fit the maximum formula size (5k bytes) when compiled. It was intended to display a red, yellow or green square depending on how many days the account was…