Comments on: Using List Custom Settings in Salesforce.com

By: Klaus

Klaus — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:32:38 +0000

Hi Jeff,
in the final note of your article you mentioned a script to populate custom settings in a managed package. What would be the best practice for this purpose?
Thanks
Klaus

By: Ceyhun

Ceyhun — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:52:56 +0000

Hi,
So here we only retrieve the values of the fields, is there any way to create an custom setting object with apex code, or create some fields of custom setting object and insert some values to it through apex code?

Thanks
Ceyhun

By: Nandini

Nandini — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:34:19 +0000

I have been reading your blog and its of great help to us,

your doing a excellent job,

Many Thanks,
Nandini

By: Jeff Douglas

Jeff Douglas — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:24:13 +0000

@Neeru, I think you’ll have to use a custom controller or extension and then overwrite the value in the standard field with the chosen value from your custom picklist before you save the record. HTH

By: Neeru

Neeru — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:42:25 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Am facing some problem in this custom settings, actually am not much aware of this. and trying to implement this in my salesforce account.

i have created a page on which picklist of custom setting is visible with one standard field of object. But i want to save the value of picklist with my standard field record. and don’t know hoe to do that.

Will you please help me this problem?

Thanks

By: MetratoN

MetratoN — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:21:53 +0000

Hi my friend, good work for this web site..i found interesting you not in the final post. i need add data automatic in my package so that the moment of instalation, the custom setting component holds values by default…

By: Niels

Niels — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:02:44 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Clear, thanks. I have escalated this as a bug.

We deploy a managed package in very few but large installs and have a dozen different custom settings so creating a new custom object in lieu of each of them is not a great solution for us as it would leave all those old objects hanging.

We also like the other benefits of custom settings such as not counting against query limits and being available in formulas without having a lookup relationship consumed.

We are part of the deprecation pilot but even that leaves deprecated fields and objects in installations, only new installs are without them.

I don’t know if you have someone influential you could talk to this about, but a fix would be most welcome

Thanks for your input and help.

Niels

By: Jeff Douglas

Jeff Douglas — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:21:59 +0000

It looks a little buggy. Perhaps your best bet in the short-term is to use a custom object to store these settings and then move them to actual custom settings once fixed. It should be a fairly academic process. You can use Eclipse to move the field from the custom object settings to the list settings object (they are both essentially custom objects) when fixed. You can then search and replace on the Flex code to change where the setting come from.

By: Jeff Douglas

Jeff Douglas — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:17:16 +0000

My guess is that they get cached each time the JVM recycles plus when ever you make a change. I just changed a value and the change was reflected with the correct value immediately.

By: Andres Perez

Andres Perez — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:28:21 +0000

Since the data is being stored in a cache and not in a database, does the cache ever get refreshed?