Salesforce.com Customization Questions

Salesforce.com General/Customization Questions

As I am getting requests from people to post more questions on customization also. I am posting here questions in a more general way.
With this you will get a good idea on basics of salesforce.com usage.

1. Explain how MVC architechture fit for Salesforce

2. How will you create relationships between objects

3. How many types of relationships are possible on objects

4. How many data types are supported for a Custom Object Standard Field Name

5. What are activities

6. What is the difference between Task and Event

7. List and describe the features used to set permission and data access in a custom app.

8. How will you create a User

9. What are the available editions of salesforce.

10. What is the difference between Enterprise/Professional/Unlimited/force.com/Developer editions.

11. What are Sharing Settings

12. What are Person Accounts

13. How forecasting works in salesforce

14. What are the system fields. Can you name some of them

15. What are the default components available on home page?

16. How do I change the home page layout?

17. How many types of Reports I can create in salesforce. what are they

18. What is dashboard. How it is created

19. What is Page Layout

20. What is the Related List

21. What is the difference between Page Layout and Related List

22. What is mini page lay out

As I am in hurry, I will update this post with real taste of customization questions as soon as I can.

Hope this is helpful.

Thanks

Srinivas,

Technology Evangelist,

Trekbin Technologies,

www.trekbin.com

Salesforce.com FAQ - Technical Questions

Here are more technical questions, that any new one to salesforce has to learn.

1. What are recursive triggers. How can we avoid the recursion problem
2. What are Apex Governer Limits.
3. What are the Spring'10 features
4. How do you use an actionFunction tag
5. What is the difference between apex:actionFunction and apex:actionSupport tag
6. What is actionPoller
7. How do you do FileUpload using Visualforce
8. What is the difference between a Profile and Role
9. What is appexchange? How can I host my application on appexchange
10. What are the different editions available on salesforce
11. What is batch apex.
12. When will we use batch apex and what is the best practice
13. What are webservice callouts
14. What are wrapper classes
15. When do we use wrapper classes

....More questions to be followed. Stay tuned...

You will get answers for these questions mostly form apex and visualforce documentation provided by salesforce. If you find any real trouble in getting an answer I wil defintely help you out.

'Most of them I will be covering in my blog as articles in the very near future

More General/Customization questions on Salesforce.com

Thanks,
Srinivas,

Technology Evangelist,
Trekbin Technologies,

www.trekbin.com

Salesforce.com FAQ or Interview Questions

People who are using salesforce.com or newly migrating to this platform or who are seeking a career on this platform definitely face some challenges. I am trying to consolidate a few technical questions here.
Questions

1. What is Apex
Ans: It is the in-house technology of salesforce.com which is similar to Java programming with object oriented concepts and to write our own custom logic.

2. What is an S-Control
Ans: S-Controls are the predominant salesforce.com widgets which are completely based on Javascript. These are hosted by salesforce but executed at client side. S-Controls are superseded by Visualforce now.

3. What is a Visualforce Page
Ans: As I said in the above answer, S-controls are superseded by Visulaforce, Visualforce is the new markup language from salesforce, by using which, We can render the standard styles of salesforce. We can still use HTML here in Visualforce. Each visualforce tag always begins with "apex" namespace. All the design part can be acomplished by using Visualforce Markup Language and the business logic can be written in custom controllers associated with the Page.

4. Will Visual force still supports the mege fields usage like S-control.
Ans: Yes. Just like S-Controls, Visualforce Pages support embedded merge fields, like the {!$User.FirstName} used in the example.

5. Where can I write my Visualforce code
Ans: You can write the code basically in 3 ways. One go to, setup->App Setup->Develop->Pages and create new Visulaforce page. While creating the Page, You will find a salesforce editor. You can write your Visualforce content there. Or go to Setup -> My Personal Information -> Personal Information -> Edit check the checkbox development mode. When you run the page like this, https://ap1.salesforce.com/apex/MyTestPage. you will find the Page editor at the bottom of the page. You can write you page as well as the controller class associated with it, there it self. OR Using EclipseIDE you can create the Visulaforce page and write the code.

Stay tuned.... I will be posting more questions and articles on salesforce.com technical side very soon.

More Qustions are Here. All the best for the newbies...

Thanks Srinivas,
www.trekbin.com