SOQL Across Multiple Objects vs SOSL Welcome back my children. Once again, I’ve encountered a situation where I’ve needed to improvise. For these code examples, remember to use the “expand code (<- ->)” option on the snippets to see everything. The Issue(s): 1. I needed a way to be able to take a given object id and determine it’s … Read More
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
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
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