Monthly Archives: January 2017

Apex:actionRegion not working with Apex:actionFunction

One of my friend was using apex:inputFile on a Visual force page, and he also needs to reRender some information on the same page. If we need to use both together, we have to use apex:actionRegion in order to isolate apex:inputFile (because inputFile doesn’t support reRender and throws error).

He was also doing the same thing but the state of information was not maintained, See the below psuedo code to get an idea of code

You will think that the above code will work fine, But It won’t!

Issue In the Above Code

Let’s say you are using a list of contact in editable mode where user can add or remove rows and update the information of contact.
User has added one row and filled the information, Now he clicked on some button to add one more row. To add row, function “myFun” (placed in actionRegion 1) is invoked. Here the information for first row of contact will go away on reRender of myInfo panel.

Solution/ Workaround

As of now, after doing some research and hit and trial approach  I have found one workaround or you can say solution. Instead of putting apex:actionFuntion and your part which needs to reRendered put them in a single actionRegion. So the updated code (working) will be as follows.

Reason/Explanation

For now there is no 100% correct explanation behind this behavior. May be actionFunction sends only information of apex:actionRegion in which it is placed to the server. For example if actionFunction is in actionRegion A, then it will send information from actionRegion A to the server. May Be my assumption is wrong. So for now no solid reason, but we have solution. So for now just solve this issue and move faster to meet your deadlines.

Getting “Default New User License” of customer portal in apex code.

Sometime we need to get Default New User License of Customer Portal in the apex code, After doing some google search, I found that there is no direct method or way to do it in the apex.

To get the Default New User License of customer portal in apex code, we need either customer portal name or site name. Below are the steps for Getting “Default New User License” of customer portal in apex code. Here you go :-

Getting Default New User License of Customer Portal in Code

STEP 1 : You need MetadataService.cls Apex class in your salesforce org.(I would suggest keep only required methods of your need only, as this class has huge lines of code).
STEP 2 : Now you need to set Remote Site Setting. Setting up remote site setting is shown in below figures.

Setup Remote Site Setting
Setup Remote Site Setting
Setup Remote Site Setting for VF Page.
Setup Remote Site Setting for VF page.

STEP 3 : After setting up MetaDataService apex class and remote site setting we are ready to read “Default New User License” of customer portal in apex code. Given below is the code snippet for this.

Disable Inline Editing on Apex:EnhancedList through jquery script

Sometimes we don’t want to keep inline editing on the apex:enhancedList, and unfortunately there is no standard way to disable inline editing. But there is always a solution for , not a standard way but we can say workaround to fulfill the requirement.

Here is the jQuery code snippet which can be put in a javascript function and then we can call this function on the “oncomplete” attribute of apex:enhancedList. Its obvious that you must include jQuery files for the execution of the below code snippet.