Salesforce Inbound Change Sets Deploy Error - organization's administration setup lock

During the validation and deployment of an inbound change set into a Salesforce production organisation I often run into the following issue.

I'll start either the validation or deployment action, wait awhile for the spin wheel to complete and then get a failed result.

The failure reason will be given as:

API Name: Deploy Error
Problem: The changes you requested require salesforce.com to temporarily lock your organization's administration setup. However, the administration setup has already been locked by another change. Please wait for the previous action to finish, then try again later.

If I wait for a period of time without any further action another deployment history will appear with the actual results of the action I started. It's like the deployment action splits off at some point and shows as both a failure due to the org admin setup lock and then later a success when it actually completes.

Safe URLs for use with Salesforce Custom Buttons/Links and PageReferences

I encountered an issue today with an inherited Salesforce App and references to custom Visualforce pages. As they were, the references would work fine in the development sandbox or when deployed via an unmanaged package. However, when they were deployed via a managed package with the associated namespace the links from the custom buttons would break.

The custom button would have a link to the Visualforce page like:

/apex/TheVisualforcePage?param1={!Opportunity.Id}

The issue is the missing namespace prefix from the Visualforce page when used in a managed package.

To resolve this the Visualforce page reference should be done using URLFOR. Ideally with some form of explicit reference to the page like this:

{!URLFOR($Page.TheVisualforcePage,'',[param1 = opportunity.id])}

However, the $Page Global Variable isn't an available function and results in an error. To help resolve this please go to IdeaExchange: Custom Button: Expose $Page in the URL Content Type and promote the idea.

The same issue occurs within the Apex code with PageReference. There were a number of instances like:

Pagereference ref = new Pagereference('/apex/TheVisualforcePage?param1=' + opportunityId);

The preferred method was to use explicit references to the page.

PageReference p = Page.TheVisualforcePage;
p.getParameters().put('param1', opportunity.id);

See Also:

• StackOverflow: Custom Button or Link of a Visualforce page with a custom controller
• $Page
• URLFOR
• Managed Package Redirecting Problem

Salesforce INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS: Upsert requires view all data on a non-unique custom index

INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS: Upsert requires view all data on a non-unique custom index

I recently encountered this error when trying to do an upsert through the Partner API using a particular users session. For other users it works fine.

Here is the same message with the important part emphasised: "INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS: Upsert requires view all data on a non-unique custom index". This also ties back to the Partner API upsert documentation:

If you are upserting an object that has the External ID attribute selected but not the Unique attribute selected, (a non-unique index) your client application must have the permission "View All Data" to execute this call. Having this permission prevents the client application from using upsert to insert an accidental duplicate record because it couldn’t see that the record existed.

The "View All Data" permission is set under the Administrative Permissions section of a profile.

As per its section (Administrative Permissions) and typically only being assigned to the System Administrator profile it is a fairly powerful permission to have. From the help doc:

Permission Name	Description	Functions Controlled	Profiles
View All Data	View all organizational data, regardless of sharing settings.	View all data owned by other users	System Administrator

Windows Phone 7 Development tips presentation

Here are the slides from my recent presentation in case you need any of the links.

WP7 development on Prezi

You may also want to look at:

• Getting started with WP7 development
• Getting WP7 Reviews from all Marketplace locales
• Using a physical keyboard with the WP7 emulator

HTTP/1.1 WebRequest with the Expect: 100-continue header

Ran into an issue today when calling a web service from .NET.
If the Expect: 100-continue HTTP header was included in the request the web server would flip out and return a response that couldn't be parsed. Fiddler gave it as:

HTTP Protocol Violation
Fiddler has detected a protocol violation in session #41.

Cannot parse HTTP response; Status line contains no spaces. Data:

 0

[Fiddler] Response Header parsing failed.
Response Data:
<plaintext>
30 0D 0A 0D 0A                                                           0....                

In .NET is appeared as:

The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine

Apparently this header is added automatically by .NET when doing a POST with HTTP/1.1 to indicate that the post data isn't sent with the initial request. So if the web server rejects the request we hasn't wasted time sending all the data up. This has also been a known issue for some time now - See HttpWebRequest and the Expect: 100-continue Header Problem from 2004.

The solution to stop the header being added is relatively simple:

WebRequest request = null;
//...
((HttpWebRequest)request).ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;

Getting WP7 Reviews from all Marketplace locales

Currently from the App Hub - Application Details page it is only possible to see the reviews from one locale at a time.

The Windows Phone 7 Review Reader in an online Silverlight application that can aggregate all the results for an app given the Application Id Guid.

Nelson .NET User Group Presentation - Windows Phone 7 Development tips + Microsoft LightSwitch as a DR system for Salesforce

Upcoming meeting

This presentation is coming up at the end of the month. Please let me know if you are planning of attending.

Title:

Windows Phone 7 Development tips

Microsoft LightSwitch as a DR system for Salesforce

Abstract:

A presentation on using Microsoft LightSwitch as a DR platform for Salesforce.

Followed by a separate presentation on getting started with WP7 development from start to a finished submission.

Giveaways:

I will have 5 Windows Phone developer account tokens to issue to attendees. These won't be given away as random prizes but are intended for people who have a WP7 application to publish to the marketplace.
My current intention to try and keep things fair is to issue them on a first come first served basis to people who are ready to submit an application to the marketplace.

Useful links:

• Event Details
• The home of Microsoft communities in New Zealand
• Mailing list for the Nelson .NET user group

When:
Tuesday 29th November 2011
Gather at 11:50 am, starting at 12:00 pm.
Approximately 1 hour plus pizza afterwards.

Where:
FuseIT Ltd,
Ground Floor,
7 Forests Rd,
Stoke,
Nelson
(Off Nayland Rd and behind Carters)

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=-41.299774~173.236231&style=r&lvl=16&alt=-1000
or
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=-41.299774,173.236231&spn=0.005239,0.010042&t=h

If you are parking on site, please use the parks marked FuseIT that are at the back of the site.

Catering: Pizza & Drinks
Door Charge: Free

RSVP to me if you are going to attend so I can guesstimate the food and drink requirements.

However, feel free to turn up on the day though if you can't commit at the moment.

Please feel free to invite anyone who may be interested in attending.