Hi, I just started an Ajax project writing an extension to Salesforce.com functionality. Thought I'd check tribe and see if any others might be here.
Steve.
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Re: Just started an Ajax project.
Thu, December 8, 2005 - 8:41 AMAwesome. I actually created this tribe to see if anyone out there was working on integrating AJAX into their pages and to get some conversation going. It's being discussed in other web programming tribes, but there wasn't one specifically where you could be guaranteed an audience for your questions, etc. I'm still studying up on it and working my way up to implementing it tastefully on some of my sites.
What functionality on your site are you moving over to AJAX? Are you converting existing functionality or adding new? -
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Re: Just started an Ajax project.
Thu, December 8, 2005 - 12:51 PM
Hi Rich,
Salesforce.com is a company that provides CRM functionality as a service from their web pages. However they allow you to extend it. I'm doing some work for the Pediatric Aids Foundation. They want to expand the built-in functionality of salesforce to include a batch-entry tool to allow them to enter the large number of donation checks they get every day.
Since each entry requires lookups from the database, validations, computations, etc. and since I can't don't control the back end, it's easiest to extend it by putting all the functionality in one big page that makes roundtrips asyncronously.
There's a lot to worry about doing this and I'm also coming up to speed.
The HTML tribe seems to ahve a lot of discussion on DHTML which is what a lot of this is going to be about. But, let's hang here and see if others find us! :-)
Steve.
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