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Force.com Checkout makes it harder to view license total
If you're like me, in the past you frequently checked the subscription summary page to remind yourself how many licenses you currently have available to your organization. Now that the subscription summary page has been replaced with the Force.com Checkout app, getting this information becomes a pain. It would be nice if, on the same page with the link to the Checkout application (where the subscription summary used to be), a quick summary of license usage was displayed.
ie:
Total User Licenses: 200
Used User Licenses: 193
Available User Licenses: 7
Total Mobile Licenses: 50
Used Mobile Licenses: 49
Available Mobile Licenses: 1
License Manager's License Object (2 enhancements and a fix)
I'd like to request that the license manager add 2 pieces of data and fix another:
* ADD: Please include the Org Name on the license record when an install takes place. For example, I have a lot of Orgs. When the leads come in, they are all separate and I can see the Org Name as the Company Name on the lead. That's great. However, if I migrate those to an Account, then the Org Name goes away because all the leads are merged. Right now, I'd have to manually copy the Org Name to a custom field on the License object.
* ADD: Please include the Org ID in the license record when an install takes place. The Org ID is not present anywhere in the system. This information would be very helpful when talking to customers and confirming the license status.
* FIX: The email address that comes across in a Lead is actually the username, not the email address. I have several DE orgs that I have installed my managed package in. All of those Orgs have different usernames, but use a common email address. The username is always what comes through.
Package IP address ranges - Whitelist Certified partner apps
With the advent of the Identity Confirmation features in salesforce.com, partners with composite AppExchange applications need to have customers explicitely Trust their external services (only if the composite application uses the API Login() call).
A packaging feature is needed so that the partner can package the required IP address range in the approved package posted to the AppExchange. Since all applications are Certified for security, these IP ranges can be tested by Salesforce.com during the final review process and sanctioned as "trusted".
Upon installation by the customer, the installer wizard could present a confirmation panel to the user indicating that the packaged IP address range will be added to the customer org's Trusted IP addresses.
Package Standard Button Overrides
When you override the functionality of a standard button (e.g. "New", "Edit", "Clone", etc.) in an app, you cannot package this override as part of your app, even for Custom objects. This is really annoying for the end user of the app as it requires numerous additional setup steps, especially if you have lots of overrides as part of your app.
Allow Managed Packages to Manage Page Layout Assignment
I created an app that controls the page layout based on record type, a very common use case, and found that the layout assignment was not installed with the app. This needs to be installed along with the page layouts and record types! It's really annoying that my users have to configure this when I already have.
Intellectual Property Rights- Code Protection
One of the major drawbacks of Salesforce is that the s-controls which we code are exposed to the clients, who if are resellers they tend to be at an disadvantage.
A partial solution that we can have by "Manage Packaging" our code in which we mode as much as we can on to Apex as then it is hidden from users.
With Visual force around , will it help us in sheilding our code from the users?
We have tried "Obfuscation" but it at times causes some issues. We would suggest Salesforce comes up with some in built API for hashing code.
Thanks and regards,
Ispita Saha.
VisualForce lifecycle documentation
It would be really helpful to have detailed information about the VF lifecycle, how and when controller instances are instantiated, how view state works, etc.
Option to undelete Visualforce page
If you open a Visualforce page (App Setup->Develop->Pages, click on its label) then accidentally press Delete rather than Edit the page is deleted without warning and even worse does not then appear in your recycle bin. A call to Salesforce support has confirmed that there is no way to retrieve a deleted Visualforce page.
Could we please have, therefore, a warning before a page is deleted and the option to undelete a page.
Managed Package Visual force
What we have discovered lately that manage packaging visual force components in our SFDC implementations does not sheild them from the users of the application. In managed package the apex classes, triggers and only the controller part of the application are hidden from the user rest is exposed, though one cannot modify but surely can replicate.
What's the solution for this?
Integration with Microsoft's Azure Services Platform
Since the platform now supports integration with the Amazon cloud, allow use of the Microsoft cloud (Azure Services Platform) so .NET developers can get into the cloud with Salesforce.
http://www.microsoft.com/azure/
Allow Apex Triggers to call *Synchronous* Web Services
So Winter 09 included "asynchronous" callouts to web services from triggers, which is great.
I have a scenario by which I need a record creation to invoke a class which invokes an external call to a web service and I need the user to respond accordingly based on the data I get back. Meaning that the @future won't work, nor will a batch process of APEX jobs.
Please allow triggers to invoke web services in a synchronous manner. Sorry if I did not explain this properly.
Support "Comments" field type for Custom Objects
Cases are the only object type which supports running "Comments" field type. It would be very helpful to be able to have this sort of a historical commentary available for Custom Objects.
Currently to mimic this functionality my company must use a Text Area (Long) and ask its employees to include their initials and the date in any comment they add to the text area. This is unwieldy.
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