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Learning Apex Programming

You're reading from   Learning Apex Programming Create business applications using Apex to extend and improve the usefulness of the Salesforce1 Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782173977
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons FREE CHAPTER 2. Apex Limits 3. More and Later 4. Triggers and Classes 5. Visualforce Development with Apex 6. Exposing Force.com to the World 7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar 8. Creating a Property Management Application 9. Test Coverage Index

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Being able to log in to Google is great. But do you really want to do that for every event, every time? Didn't think so. Let's fire up that clicking finger and do some administrative overhauls in the UI. First stop, Users. Perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the Setup link at the top-right of the Force.com GUI.

  2. Under the Customize section, click on Users (these are not in alphabetical order).

  3. Click on Fields.

  4. In the User Custom Fields section, click on the New button.

  5. Create two Text fields, 255 characters in length, and one Email, as follows:

    Google Email (e-mail)

    Google Access Token (text)

    Google Refresh Token (text)

You might be asking yourself, why a Google Email field? Why not just use the user's e-mail? It's a valid question, but experience has shown that people may wish to use a different e-mail account for their Salesforce login than Google, and this facilitates both approaches. But wait! Isn't OAuth supposed to mitigate the need to store the user's login (also known as...

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