Monday, February 27, 2012

Salesforce Converting 15digits ID to 18 digits ID via Formula

Sometimes you'll need to convert the 15 digits ID to 18 digits for external programs to compare IDs.


ExistingFifteenDigitsId 
& MID("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ012345",( 
IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,1,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,1,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,2,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,2,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,3,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,4,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,4,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,8,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,5,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,16,0) 
)+1,1) 
& MID("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ012345",( 
IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,6,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,1,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,7,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,2,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,8,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,4,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,9,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,8,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,10,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,16,0) 
)+1,1) 
& MID("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ012345",( 
IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,11,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,1,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,12,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,2,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,13,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,4,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,14,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,8,0) 
+IF(FIND(MID(audit_survey__r.audit__r.Id,15,1), "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")>0,16,0) 
)+1,1)

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Creating your Own Dropbox Server

Since hard drive space is relatively cheap these days, and if you have a server running 24/7, you can consider the following file sync software to create one/two/n-way sync.

Syncrify - uses "rsync" to copy data.  Useful if file versioning is not required(only in paid version and is fairly expensive).
Delta copy - ditto
Allway Sync - free but only support folders available in the file system (no native http/ftp support)
Good Sync - Not free for >100 files, but support file versioning and have native http/ftp support.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Assembla SVN

If you are familiar with SVN, you can have 1GB of repository space on Assembla with unlimited users for FREE.  This is perfect for most homebrew projects.