Why not to make a read-only field required
Mar/074
This action can be filed under stupid mistakes.
On opportunities we have some calculated fields which are read-only. Somewhere in the system requirements was said that one of those fields (revenue) should be required for a certain sale stage. Of course this was not a good requirement because you can’t fill in a read-only field.
For some reason, I made the field required (don’t ask why) and the changes where put in the SRF which was launched today in the UAT environment. Of course this was a blocking issue. I never felt more stupid then today.
PC crash
Mar/073
It’s been quiet here lately and the reason is that my home PC crashed two weeks ago. When booting the screens froze and nothing happened anymore. After I brought him to the local PC shop, they told me that they removed several spyware items and also did a hard disk check, but the disk seemed healthy. According to them everything was back ok and the PC booted normally.
The first time I booted the PC everything was indeed normal. Even after 24 hours running al seemed ok. But when I came home at night and booted the PC the same problem occurred. Since the PC is 4 years old I didn’t want to upgrade it anymore but just buy a complete new system.
Since I have my own company (webdesign) I can buy my hardware very cheap because I’m also a hardware retailer.
The new PC will have the following specs:
- Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz Processor
- GA-965G-DS3 Gigabyte motherboard
- BARRACUDA 400GB SATA harddisk
- 2048MB 667MHZ DDR2 CL5 ECC Ram
- RADEON X1950PRO 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E DUAL-DVI video card
- ANTEC CASE SONATA II
From my old PC I will use my 2 17″ LCD monitors, my Logistic wireless keyboard and mouse and my DVD-ROM and DVD-burner. I hope all my parts will be delivered next week so because I’m starting to get frustrated being without my PC.
And I promise. As soon as my pc is ready, I will post more frequently.
Last week
Mar/071
We’re at the last week of development on the current project. This means the last week to develop the requirements and bugfixing the requirements from last weeks. This week will be as busy as the three previous but at least we are on schedule.
Today I spent most of the time on bugfixing previous built requirements an developing a tricky part (at least for me). Business would like the users to be able to change the primary of the sales team for an opportunity trough a pick applet.
My first try was to do this just by creating some joins and filling in the necessary fields with a pick map but that seemed not possible. So now I’m trying to do it via eScript. When I left the office, I was close to finding the correct way to do it, so I hope to get it working tomorrow morning.