Tales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part IV of IV)

Conclusion Welcome back boys and girls. Get your crayons out and have as seat as we finally conclude this series.  Long, but worth it. In order to get to a working result, I’m just going to pretend that we created a custom object called “Book” (Book__c) for the display purpose.  Given that this is the case, we can then assume … Read More

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Tales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part III of IV)

The Mass Delete Controller I will definitely take my time to explain this part as it’s the engine behind how this will work.  So let’s look at this in steps. The purpose of this class will be to handle the mass delete of custom objects in a generic manner.  To do this we need the all the entities we created … Read More

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Tales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part II of IV)

To be honest with you, I really didn’t expect the explanation to be this in depth, but you never know until you start.  So here we cover the question “WHAT ARE THE BASIC CLASSES THAT WE WILL NEED FIRST?” I think we’ll need about 6 of them: TCriteria TPaging (With it’s Respective IPagingEventHandler interface) ISOQLValueConverter TSelectionEntity TApexEntity TCustomSearch TCriteria The purpose of this class is to handle the search criteria for the objects. … Read More

titancronusTales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part II of IV)

Tales of the Salesforce Spirit: Custom Object Mass Deleter (Part I of IV)

So, I’m doing my thing at work – Salesforce Certified Developer.  A situation presents itself where I need to delete multiple records at once.  The best part is, they all belong to custom objects and salesforce only allows mass delete on select standard objects.  You know what this means then – you got to make it yourself.  Now I see the need … Read More

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