Using Mass Edit Tables to Ease User Frustration presented by Ken Noll in the Admin Zone at Salesforce World Tour Chicago on 4/22/15.

1. Using Mass Edit Tables to Ease
User Frustration!
​Ken Noll, Salesforce.com Practice Director, Alternative Solutions
​April 2015

2. Problem Domain
Typical Use Cases and Possible Solutions
1
2
Alternative Solutions
At a glance 1
1
Implementing TableGrid
Using GitHub, Deployment and Configuration 3

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

4. Some of Our Clients
Manufacturing Services Construction Financial

5. Problem Domain
Typical Use Cases and Possible Solutions
1
2
Alternative Solutions
At a glance 1
1
Implementing TableGrid
Using GitHub, Deployment and Configuration 3

6. Why Can’t I Mass Edit My Related Lists?

7. Approach #1: List View Mass Edit
513.293.0526

8. Approach #2: Standard List Controller
Easy as 1,2,3
2 - Actions
3 - Fields
1- Object

9. Approach #2: Standard List Controller
Easy as 1,2,3
Tie VF to a button
Edit selected rows

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Cost and Benefit of Each Approach?
​Given these different ways to implement mass edit:
ListViewMassEdit
StandardList
Controller
OpenSource
Projects
AppExchangeApps
Benefi
t

14. Approach Pros Cons
Cost and Benefit of Each Approach?

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16. Thank you
Thank You!
Ken Noll, Alternative Solutions
knoll@alt-solut.com
513.293.0526