I've asked this question before and have not had much feedback.
I'm looking for an SDLC development model suited to many developers working with SalesForce.
We're in the teething phases and have setup a n-developer sandboxes and a single CVS repostory. The sandbox covers ALL metadata and objects. Typically we'll sync changes through a combinations of updates/commits/deploy to server/refresh from server.
We've hit walls where:
* Profiles may get committed referring to objects a developer hadn't intended to ci y et.
* Some profiles won't get exported alone (resolved)
* We're forced to upgrade to Summer 2009 versions (where this should have already been the case)
* CVS updated changes to custom Objects won't get overwritten when you explicitly try to refresh from server
This may be a case of us getting used to a development model where one has to synch first with a local file sandbox and then with a cloud sandbox. In any case if someone has gotten around these issues and defined processes for working in such a context, I would be grateful to hear about it.
I'd very much like to hear about other people's experiences, whether with CVS, Subversion or any other technologies.
I've created a CVS repository by importing 'all meta-data' from a configuration sandbox via Force.com IDE - including ALL customised and native entities.
I had a number of developers who have checked-out this tree from CVS and I'm seeing the following errors when trying to 'Deploy to Server' back to their sandboxes:
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File Name: profiles/Company Director.profile Full Name: Company Director Action: NO ACTION Result: FAILED Problem: CRUD Permissions are not available for this entity : Product2
File Name: profiles/Managing Director.profile Full Name: Managing Director Action: NO ACTION Result: FAILED Problem: Permission View All Data depends on permission(s): Read Idea
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* These errors occur when trying a user is updating into his own sandbox.
* I've found that explictly exporting one of these profiles yeilds an empty profile (ie. <profile/> ) even where the web-frontend indicates that this has various settings against it.
* The errors not occur for other layouts.
I'm not really sure where to set these permissions - since the user is admin in his own sandbox.
This is a repost of a question which went unanswered in the 'General Developments' thread. Would be grateful for feedback and shared experiences.
I'm looking at best practice suggestions for
collaborative development in Force.com. I'm working on a project which
is scaling up from a single developer to several.
Ideally
I'd like us to work in seperate sandboxes, merge and deploy to a single
pre-release sandbox, test, tag and deploy from there. I'm considering
using local version control via the IDE and forcing state changes in the
cloud through forced 'save to server's.
A couple of questions:
i) How do others handle collaboration and versioning?
ii) Can one version state of non-programmatic constructs (ie. custom objects, etc)?
iii) Is there someway of cloning the state of my sandbox directly into that of another developer's sandbox?
Any thoughts / suggestions / lesson-from-the-field would be valuable.
I'm looking at best practice suggestions for collaborative development in Force.com. I'm working on a project which is scaling up from a single developer to several.
Ideally I'd like us to work in seperate sandboxes, merge and deploy to a single pre-release sandbox, test, tag and deploy from there. I'm considering using version control on the IDE side and forcing state changes in the cloud through forced 'save to server's. Although this wouldn't covery object state and other metadata.
A couple of questions:
i) How do others handle collaboration and versioning?
ii) Can one version state of non-programmatic constructs (ie. custom objects, etc)?
iii) Is there someway of cloning the state of my sandbox directly into that of another developer?
Any thoughts/ suggestions/lesson-from-the-fieldwould be valuable.
In designing an SF Object and deciding on a practical length for a text field - I would like to understand the associated representation in Salesforce's underlying database.
Can someone shed light ( and preferably direct me to the correct document ) on whether I'm specifying the length on a fixed length field or a varchar?
I'm new to SF developement and have not been able to find a recommended 'best-practice' for representing many-to-many relationships between objects.
I've designed the following entities:
i) Invoice - Representing a demand for payment - which may be payed through multiple payments
ii) Payment - Representing an actual payment (which may be allocating 'across' multiple invoices.
iii) PaymentAllocation - Essentially a relationship container - associating a paymentId to an invoiceId
The later would be populated in Apex space and is my attempt to repersent this sort of many-to-many relationship which does not appear to come out of the box.
I was hoping that others would advise as to the recommended 'SalesForce' way of accomplishing this sort of relationship/behaviour?
Salesforce's getUpdated request returns a list of record ids that have been updated in a given time window. It also returns 'latestDateCovered' which confirms to the requestor the time window in which these records were updated.
We send a request as follows: getUpdated(sObjectType startDate EndDate)
After each request we store the latestDateCovered to use as the startDate for the next request, and we always set the EndDate to be now.
We make this request every 10 minutes and usually everything is fine. However yesterday we noticed that the request seemed to get "stuck":
i) We made a request at 11:02 UTC and the value for latestDateCovered was 2008-07-21T10:57:00. ii) We made our next call at 11.12 UTC and the value for latestDateCovered was still 2008-07-21T10:57:00. iii) Repeated ii over and over until... iv) ...about 18:15 UTC when the latestDateCovered suddenly jumped to 2008-07-21T18:12:00.
This means that towards the end of yesterday the API wasn't reporting changes for over 7 hours and our systems were very out of sync.
So my questions are: 1) Has anyone else seen this happen before and what did you do? 2) Does anyone know what Salesforce consider an acceptable delay for these sort of API calls to be? I can't find anything about this on the API Developer's Guide at all. This is a business critical function for us, and a 20 minute delay would be fine, but several hours was a serious problem.
We first experienced this problem on two consecutive days a month ago but unfortunately our support ticket is still pending.
In designing an SF Object and deciding on a practical length for a text field - I would like to understand the associated representation in Salesforce's underlying database.
Can someone shed light ( and preferably direct me to the correct document ) on whether I'm specifying the length on a fixed length field or a varchar?
I've created a CVS repository by importing 'all meta-data' from a configuration sandbox via Force.com IDE - including ALL customised and native entities.
I had a number of developers who have checked-out this tree from CVS and I'm seeing the following errors when trying to 'Deploy to Server' back to their sandboxes:
---------------------------
File Name: profiles/Company Director.profile Full Name: Company Director Action: NO ACTION Result: FAILED Problem: CRUD Permissions are not available for this entity : Product2
File Name: profiles/Managing Director.profile Full Name: Managing Director Action: NO ACTION Result: FAILED Problem: Permission View All Data depends on permission(s): Read Idea
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* These errors occur when trying a user is updating into his own sandbox.
* I've found that explictly exporting one of these profiles yeilds an empty profile (ie. <profile/> ) even where the web-frontend indicates that this has various settings against it.
* The errors not occur for other layouts.
I'm not really sure where to set these permissions - since the user is admin in his own sandbox.
