using mass edit tables to ease user frustration
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Using Mass Edit Tables to Ease User Frustration!
Ken Noll, Salesforce.com Practice Director, Alternative Solutions April 2015
Problem DomainTypical Use Cases and Possible Solutions
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2
Alternative SolutionsAt a glance 1
1Implementing TableGridUsing GitHub, Deployment and Configuration 3
Who Am I?Salesforce.com Practice Director, Alternative Solutions
Salesforce.com Program Director at Alternative Solutions
Business Transformation & Customer Experience Management Solutions thought leader
Over 20 years of experience managing large projects IT and process improvement projects for General Motors, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, and Boeing.
Certified Salesforce.com professional managing full-cycle sales cloud implementations
System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) experience with responsibilities for large software implementations
BSIE, North Carolina State University, 1989
MSIE, University of Dayton, 1999
Some of Our Clients
Manufacturing Services Construction Financial
Problem DomainTypical Use Cases and Possible Solutions
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2
Alternative SolutionsAt a glance 1
1Implementing TableGridUsing GitHub, Deployment and Configuration 3
Why Can’t I Mass Edit My Related Lists?
Approach #1: List View Mass Edit
513.293.0526
Approach #2: Standard List Controller Easy as 1,2,3
2 - Actions
3 - Fields
1- Object
Approach #2: Standard List Controller Easy as 1,2,3 Tie VF to a button
Edit selected rows
Approach #3: Open Source Projects
Code sharing and publishing service
Crowdsourcing for Programmers
Easy to Use• https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/labs/2011/04/how-to-use-git-github-force-com-ide-open-source-labs-apps.html
Up2Go’s TableGrid Project
TableGrid is a free, open-source Force.com library, that provides users and developers a highly customizable, native-looking, sortable, filterable, editable Grid Visualforce component
Can be used as an advanced, highly configurable replacement of apex:pageBlockTables and Standard Related Lists.
https://github.com/Up2Go/visualforce-table-grid
Approach #4: AppExchange Apps
The Salesforce.com cloud computing marketplace
Every app goes through a rigorous security review
Apps built natively on the Salesforce Platform can share common components with other native apps
Cost and Benefit of Each Approach?
Given these different ways to implement mass edit:
List View
Mass E
dit
Standard List
Controller
Open S
ource
Projects
AppE
xchange Apps
BenefitCost
Approach Pros Cons
Cost and Benefit of Each Approach?
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