Comments on: Building Rich Cloud Applications with Force.com and Flex http://www.jamesward.com/2009/09/01/building-rich-cloud-applications-with-force-com-and-flex/ Rich Internet Applications | Flex | Adobe AIR | Java | Open Source | Linux | Enterprise Software | Cloud Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: People Over Process » RIA in Java-land, guest James Ward - RIA Weekly #61 http://www.jamesward.com/2009/09/01/building-rich-cloud-applications-with-force-com-and-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-157843 People Over Process » RIA in Java-land, guest James Ward - RIA Weekly #61 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:49:21 +0000 http://www.jamesward.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-157843 [...] been seeing in the Java world. We also talk about layering RIAs on-top of cloud services, like Salesforce. Being at a RedHat conference, I ask him to give us the matrix of where Flash (Player, Flex SDK, [...] [...] been seeing in the Java world. We also talk about layering RIAs on-top of cloud services, like Salesforce. Being at a RedHat conference, I ask him to give us the matrix of where Flash (Player, Flex SDK, [...]

]]> By: RIA Weekly » RIA in Java-land, guest James Ward - Episode 61 http://www.jamesward.com/2009/09/01/building-rich-cloud-applications-with-force-com-and-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-157842 RIA Weekly » RIA in Java-land, guest James Ward - Episode 61 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:47:59 +0000 http://www.jamesward.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-157842 [...] been seeing in the Java world. We also talk about layering RIAs on-top of cloud services, like Salesforce. Being at a RedHat conference, I ask him to give us the matrix of where Flash (Player, Flex SDK, [...] [...] been seeing in the Java world. We also talk about layering RIAs on-top of cloud services, like Salesforce. Being at a RedHat conference, I ask him to give us the matrix of where Flash (Player, Flex SDK, [...]

]]> By: James Ward http://www.jamesward.com/2009/09/01/building-rich-cloud-applications-with-force-com-and-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-157840 James Ward Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:08:17 +0000 http://www.jamesward.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-157840 Hi Joseph, Yeah. You will need to code the Flex app in MXML and AS3. There are some great resources to learn Flex on the <a href="http://developer.adobe.com/flex" rel="nofollow">Adobe Developer Connection</a>. -James Hi Joseph,

Yeah. You will need to code the Flex app in MXML and AS3. There are some great resources to learn Flex on the Adobe Developer Connection.

-James

]]> By: Joseph Dindinger http://www.jamesward.com/2009/09/01/building-rich-cloud-applications-with-force-com-and-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-157839 Joseph Dindinger Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:19:15 +0000 http://www.jamesward.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-157839 Hi James, Yes, that is what I am asking. I can pass variables INTO the Flex app, but don't know how to use them inside the app. I just figured out that what I need to do is learn MXML. :) Duh. Thank you for a very interesting post! Joseph Hi James,

Yes, that is what I am asking. I can pass variables INTO the Flex app, but don’t know how to use them inside the app. I just figured out that what I need to do is learn MXML. :) Duh.

Thank you for a very interesting post!

Joseph

]]> By: James Ward http://www.jamesward.com/2009/09/01/building-rich-cloud-applications-with-force-com-and-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-157838 James Ward Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:11:08 +0000 http://www.jamesward.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-157838 Hi Joseph, The demo actually is a VisualForce page. I just didn't turn off the typical Salesforce header and sidebar. You can easily pass custom parameters to the Flex app using the flashvars syntax like I did above. Using that method on a VisualForce page you can grab the page context and pass it into Flex. Is that what you are asking? -James Hi Joseph,

The demo actually is a VisualForce page. I just didn’t turn off the typical Salesforce header and sidebar. You can easily pass custom parameters to the Flex app using the flashvars syntax like I did above. Using that method on a VisualForce page you can grab the page context and pass it into Flex. Is that what you are asking?

-James

]]> By: Joseph Dindinger http://www.jamesward.com/2009/09/01/building-rich-cloud-applications-with-force-com-and-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-157837 Joseph Dindinger Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:51:21 +0000 http://www.jamesward.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-157837 This is awesome! Thank you. Love the way it works. Where is documentation on how to build this type of stuff using VisualForce (rather than sControls)? I would like to try to make something similar to the "Flex Pie Chart", but using VisualForce. I cannot figure out how to use parameters to indicate the actual record I am on in Salesforce.com and then pull a query of ONLY that record. Or is this too early to be asking for documentation? Thanks again! Joseph This is awesome! Thank you. Love the way it works.

Where is documentation on how to build this type of stuff using VisualForce (rather than sControls)?

I would like to try to make something similar to the “Flex Pie Chart”, but using VisualForce.

I cannot figure out how to use parameters to indicate the actual record I am on in Salesforce.com and then pull a query of ONLY that record.

Or is this too early to be asking for documentation?

Thanks again!

Joseph

]]> By: Dave Carroll http://www.jamesward.com/2009/09/01/building-rich-cloud-applications-with-force-com-and-flex/comment-page-1/#comment-157835 Dave Carroll Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:37:15 +0000 http://www.jamesward.com/blog/?p=1156#comment-157835 Nice! Thanks for including the source code. Seems like you could build a pretty sophisticated RIA using the available workflow, email alerting, approval processes and escalation features of Force.com and the amazingly "flexible" Flex technology! -D Nice! Thanks for including the source code. Seems like you could build a pretty sophisticated RIA using the available workflow, email alerting, approval processes and escalation features of Force.com and the amazingly “flexible” Flex technology!

-D

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