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Winter_09_Known_Issues
For any release (for any software) there are known bugs.
I want to be able to go to trust.salesforce.com/Winter_09_Known_Issues (or someplace, it doesn't have to be trust)
and be able to search through known bugs.
I don't want or need access to a complete bug database, etc. I just want to be able to search so that when I come across some bizarre behavior (like the thread below demonstrates) I don't have to beat my head against a wall when somebody else already has the bruises.
http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=Visualforce&thr...
Specifically, I'm more concerned with programming bugs in VisualForce, Apex, etc. as opposed to weird application behaviors.
Add Eclipse 3.4 compatibility to Force.com IDE
According to http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Force.com_IDE#Installation, "Note: The Force.com IDE is not compatible with Eclipse 3.4." Unfortunately Eclipse does not provide downloads for any of their previous releases, only for version 3.4. The Force.com IDE needs to support Eclipse 3.4 as it is widely used by the developer community.
"Print Schema" and/or "Dump Schema" to document custom schema
Hi,
This idea/need is similar to "Ability to Download SF Object Schema and ERD", but the focus is on documentation, rather than database re-creation.
I need a quick way to document our customized SFDC schema. The ideal thing would be a "print schema" selection somewhere on or under the "setup" screen. Direct and PDF options would be great.
It would be nice to be able to dump to a csv as well ("Dump Schema?"), just the schema info with no data. But just printing to a PDF would be fine for now.
Thanks!
-- David.
Improve Force.com IDE syntax coloring
The Force.com IDE improves with every release, which is great. However, one odd thing I noticed is that the syntax coloring seems to be case sensitive.
For example, if one types
Map<id> ... no coloring happens, where as if you use lowercase for map as in "map<id>", map gets colored nicely. This doesn't really improve readability and somehow defeats the purpose of syntax coloring. Same is true for DML statements like select vs SELECT.
Please make the coloring case insensitive and maybe add primitive data types to the coloring too while you're at it.
That would improve the IDE a lot.
I'm currently using Version 12.0.2.200803272100
Developer Directed Dreamforce Sessions
Allow the community to determine the content for one or more sessions at Dreamforce. In an effort to make the most out of Dreamforce, it would be great to have Developers of the platform, whether they plan on attending Dreamforce or actually will attend Dreamforce, weigh in on what topics to cover in the Developer Tracks.
There are many more topics available now than in previous years and only a finite time available at the conference. To provide the maximum value to attendees, it would be great to allow the attendees to determine what it is they are most interested in, struggling the most with or need more inspiration or information about.
IDE: Line Numbers on test results
Test results in the IDE can quickly become thousands of lines long when we are debugging. Please add line numbers to the test log viewer to make review easier.
Inline Debugging Eclipse
It would be very nice to have real debugging functionality in eclipse to debug Apex code.
if you could set breakpoints to see what value a certain variable has that would be very nice.
Regards Sven
XSL:FO support for Visualforce PDF generation
Visualforce PDF support is fantastic but using HTML to generate a printed page is less than ideal.
Adding xsl:fo support would allow for headers, footers, page numbering etc on generated pdfs, and is designed for generating printed content as distinct from html which is designed for on-screen content.
Developer-accessible bug database
If I find a bug in the Salesforce platform, I want a bug database search for an existing bug and, if none exists, log a new bug. Such a bug database would have the following features:
1. A defined bug cycle (report/reproduce/resolve)
2. Viewable/searchable by other developers on the platform
3. Direct interactions with with Salesforce's engineers, PMs, and QA
4. Specifically for developers, specifically about bugs in the platform
Without such a database, developers on the salesforce platform have two choices for reporting bugs - opening a support case, or starting a thread on the discussion boards. Neither meets our requirements (support cases provide (1) but nothing else; the discussion boards provide (2) & (3) but not 1 & 4).
Of the two existing options, opening cases with support has been the less useful for me. My support cases are often closed immediately by Tier 1 support with a comment "we don't support partner apps" - apparently T1 support doesn't realize that I am the partner, requesting support for a bug in the platform. More to the point, requiring T1 support to be capable of handling highly technical developer bug reports isn't realistic.
The discussion boards have been great for direct interaction with salesforce's developers, but lacking the defined bug cycle their usefulness is highly time-limited. If I log a bug through the boards, I often get a "we're aware of that and working on it" response, but that response isn't always followed up with "that is now fixed". As a result, as a developer, I have to specifically re-test a bug to find out if it's been fixed. The upshot is that, if I try to use a feature and find it has a bug, I'll often avoid that trying that feature again for much longer than I should.
Now that salesforce is a platform, not just an app, it's time to open the kimono a bit.
IDE: Keyboard Shortcut to Run Tests
When developing, I typically run tests and get failure, then write some code and re-run the tests. This is repeated many times.
Ctrl+S is nice for saving files, and I would like a keyboard shortcut to re-run the tests currently in the Apex Test Runner.
IDE: Autocomplete for Apex and Visualforce code
Please add type-ahead code complete for Apex and Visualforce to the IDE editors.
Also please create simple macros for creating setters and getters for variables. We all write that one line of code 10 times a day--make it easier to do by making sure the built in Eclipse code macro generators work with the Force.com editors.
Allow Copy & Paste from Schema browser
I know this is an Eclipse modification, but I wasn't sure if this is controlled by the Force IDE plugin:
I love the Schema browser - would love it even more if you could copy and paste the results (especially when running Relationship Queries, see image).
This would be a huge help when developing because often times I find sets of records that need to be mass modified (updated, deleted, corrected) when I'm testing code for new triggers. If I could cut and paste these I could slap them right into the Mass Update tool (or Demand Tools).
thanks!
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