Opening the Message Board Doors
Apr 18, 2006The Salesforce.com customer message boards used to be available only to customers, but not anymore! Bowing to popular demand, we opened up the message boards last week to anyone with a web browser, an internet connection and a need to connect with the Salesforce.com user community. What does this mean for you?
Browse the Boards
Now you can visit the forums and read about what's going on without first passing through a login page. Just bookmark http://forums.crmsuccess.com/ or copy and paste the address. You will only need to login to post a message.
Link Directly to Posts
Opening up the boards also makes it easer for you to share links. For example, if you find an interesting post you can post it on your blog or email it to a friend knowing that they'll be able to read it.
Subscribe to Feeds
This is the most exciting feature for me and Scott Mark Mangano has already blogged about this. The new RSS feature allows you to subscribe to a board or a thread and view the most recent posts on your personalized homepage or within your feed reader. Of course you know all about feeds (RSS and Atom) already, but if you don't, they are technologies that let you keep track of many websites without actually visiting them.
Search
With the boards open, search works a whole lot better. Google is starting to index the content and no longer will you get a sign-in page when you click on one of the search results.
This is an exciting development for the salesforce.com community and we look forward to rolling out further enhancements to the message boards.
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It's about time! I see with some new blood things are starting to change. I glad to see Salesforce is still listening
Posted by: Pete Fife | April 18, 2006 at 09:03 PM
Love it - I've only been asking for this for about a year (though primarily for certified Salesforce.com consultants like myself :-). Can't wait to see it take off!
Posted by: Chris | April 18, 2006 at 09:28 PM
I am getting following error message in InfoPath form designer while creating the data connection for SForce web service.
I set up a local wsdl file copied from the URL for enterprise available from SalesForce.com.
Error info:
WSDLOperation:The operation login had an invalid parts attribute HRESULT=0x80004005: Unspecified error
- WSDLOperation:Initializing of the input message failed for operation login HRESULT=0x80004005: Unspecified error
- WSDLPort:An operation for port Soap could not be initialized HRESULT=0x80004005: Unspecified error
- WSDLPort:Analyzing the binding information for port Soap failed HRESULT=0x80004005: Unspecified error
- WSDLService:Initialization of the port for service SforceService failed HRESULT=0x80004005: Unspecified error
- WSDLReader:Analyzing the WSDL file failed HRESULT=0x80004005: Unspecified error
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Vijay
Posted by: Vijay Gowda | April 27, 2006 at 02:46 AM
Vijay, have you tried http://forums.sforce.com , the AppExchange Developer Network Forum?
Posted by: Kingsley Joseph | April 27, 2006 at 09:06 AM
I've downloaded the sforce_connector PE and it works great on most machines. On a few however, it won't install. I get a message from Microsoft/VisualBasic that says "Can't find Project or Library. Then it asks me for the sforce_connector password.
Has this happened to anyone else before? Does anyone know the password to the XLA? Maybe I can debug it on my own.
Neither ttytytytyty nor sett work
Many Thanks. Phil
Posted by: Phil mandeville | May 03, 2006 at 07:21 AM
THANK YOU! Thank you for fixing the bugs too! I can use the forums again!
Posted by: Andres | May 03, 2006 at 08:37 AM
Andres, Chris and Pete: Hope to see you take even more active roles in the forums. Feel free to send me feedback about the forums: kjoseph at salesforce dot com.
Phil,
Please try posting your question in the Excel conncetor forum: http://forums.sforce.com/sforce/board?board.id=Excel_Connector
Posted by: Kingsley Joseph | May 03, 2006 at 12:31 PM
I have two sforce accounts, as I do work for different companies. Often, when I return, I am presented with the "Entry" screen again, and have to re-register. Why is this? What should I do to get around it?
Posted by: tinky | May 16, 2006 at 01:48 PM
For Jamie Grenney; When is the May personalized account review report coming out?
Posted by: Agnes | May 17, 2006 at 09:48 AM
The May Personalized Account Review should be out within the next 7 days. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Jamie Grenney | May 17, 2006 at 11:02 AM
hi
as i am new to salesforce .
can ay body help me?
the problem with me is that.
i what to customize the layout or custom tab as when any body click on it. it should display the view i specify.
thanks
Posted by: manjit | May 31, 2006 at 01:02 AM
Manjit, have you tried forums.crmsuccess.com ?
Posted by: Kingsley Joseph | June 01, 2006 at 09:12 PM
Can you make the center column that contains the content on sforce.com wider? Using IE anyway it is hard to use.
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Posted by: Vian Laurence | September 07, 2006 at 01:03 AM
Can any body tell me the web reference of " Appexchange enterprise web service API". I want to access the salesforce API's but not able to find the web refernce of API to add in my project .
Please if any one know any thing regarding this email me on my id "chandan.tandon@hanusoftware.com" . I am also trying to find out that.
It's urgent....
Thanks
Posted by: Chandan Tandon | September 14, 2006 at 12:06 AM
Chandon, the API docs can be found at http://www.salesforce.com/developer/docs.jsp
Posted by: Kingsley Joseph | September 14, 2006 at 12:34 AM