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    Incredibly powerful CRM. It's amazing how you can create complex objects with table joins, lookups, etc., play around with the UI, etc., and their servers are FAST. That said, it took me six hours to figure out how to import a CSV, figure out that if you mark a field as currency, it still won't parse $ and , and that you want to map your CSV header columns exactly to object fields because otherwise you have to manually map them, and because you'll be trying the import, like 50 times before you get it right, it's a big time saver not to have to manually map them every time! Whew. And all this pro bono for a non-profit that asked me to help them out. Marc

    Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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      Incredibly powerful CRM. It's amazing how you can create complex objects with table joins, lookups, etc., play around with the UI, etc., and their servers are FAST. That said, it took me six hours to figure out how to import a CSV, figure out that if you mark a field as currency, it still won't parse $ and , and that you want to map your CSV header columns exactly to object fields because otherwise you have to manually map them, and because you'll be trying the import, like 50 times before you get it right, it's a big time saver not to have to manually map them every time! Whew. And all this pro bono for a non-profit that asked me to help them out. Marc

      Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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      Mark_Wallace
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      Sorry, but if a non-profit organisation can afford salesforce, then they can afford to pay you to fix it for them. When a sweet smile means "I can pay the big guys, but you can go f*** yourself", modify it with a bunch of fives.

      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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        Sorry, but if a non-profit organisation can afford salesforce, then they can afford to pay you to fix it for them. When a sweet smile means "I can pay the big guys, but you can go f*** yourself", modify it with a bunch of fives.

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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        Marc Clifton
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        They're using the free non-profit starter pack that SF offers. :) Marc

        Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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          Incredibly powerful CRM. It's amazing how you can create complex objects with table joins, lookups, etc., play around with the UI, etc., and their servers are FAST. That said, it took me six hours to figure out how to import a CSV, figure out that if you mark a field as currency, it still won't parse $ and , and that you want to map your CSV header columns exactly to object fields because otherwise you have to manually map them, and because you'll be trying the import, like 50 times before you get it right, it's a big time saver not to have to manually map them every time! Whew. And all this pro bono for a non-profit that asked me to help them out. Marc

          Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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          The old adage applies, no good deed goes unpunished...

          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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            Incredibly powerful CRM. It's amazing how you can create complex objects with table joins, lookups, etc., play around with the UI, etc., and their servers are FAST. That said, it took me six hours to figure out how to import a CSV, figure out that if you mark a field as currency, it still won't parse $ and , and that you want to map your CSV header columns exactly to object fields because otherwise you have to manually map them, and because you'll be trying the import, like 50 times before you get it right, it's a big time saver not to have to manually map them every time! Whew. And all this pro bono for a non-profit that asked me to help them out. Marc

            Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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            One can wonder why a non-profit needs "SalesForce" software. That's an expensive sauce. The above statement is "innuendo free" ... in the mind of its author. cheers, Bill

            «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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              Incredibly powerful CRM. It's amazing how you can create complex objects with table joins, lookups, etc., play around with the UI, etc., and their servers are FAST. That said, it took me six hours to figure out how to import a CSV, figure out that if you mark a field as currency, it still won't parse $ and , and that you want to map your CSV header columns exactly to object fields because otherwise you have to manually map them, and because you'll be trying the import, like 50 times before you get it right, it's a big time saver not to have to manually map them every time! Whew. And all this pro bono for a non-profit that asked me to help them out. Marc

              Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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              Slacker007
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              Marc Clifton wrote:

              all this pro bono for a non-profit that asked me to help them out.

              Ah, but think the of the warm fuzzy feelings you will have from helping out. Seriously though, it shows good form IMHO, helping others out, when needed. :thumbsup:

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                Incredibly powerful CRM. It's amazing how you can create complex objects with table joins, lookups, etc., play around with the UI, etc., and their servers are FAST. That said, it took me six hours to figure out how to import a CSV, figure out that if you mark a field as currency, it still won't parse $ and , and that you want to map your CSV header columns exactly to object fields because otherwise you have to manually map them, and because you'll be trying the import, like 50 times before you get it right, it's a big time saver not to have to manually map them every time! Whew. And all this pro bono for a non-profit that asked me to help them out. Marc

                Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

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