Your workflows may need to present users with choices in the form of custom dialogs. DayBack provides a straight-forward function to include dialogs like this in your custom actions and show dialogs when users edit events. This function offers a way to specify the dialog title, message, and one or two button options. However, needing […]
Custom Actions
Timezone Tooltips
This is still one of my favorite customizations. This tooltip will translate your appointments into other time zones. Also, it’s easy to customize so you can add more cities if you need to. This is also a great example of how fun it can be to use JavaScript within DayBack’s event actions because the moment.js […]
Using Salesforce Attendees and Google Notifications in DayBack
Part 3 of 3 on creating attendees, invitations, and accepting invitations in DayBack. In two previous articles, we looked at using DayBack to send Google notifications from any calendar and using DayBack to share events in Salesforce using the event’s Attendees relationship. In this article, we’re going to combine these two techniques and send Google email notifications to our Salesforce […]
Attendees & Shared Events in Salesforce Calendars
Part 2 of 3 on creating attendees, invitations, and accepting invitations in DayBack. In Salesforce, the standard Event object supports a single owner by default. In DayBack, it’s typical to map the owner of the standard Event as the resource so individuals in the organization have their own row or column in DayBack’s resource scheduling grids. […]
Sending Google Calendar Notifications from DayBack
Part 1 of 3 on creating attendees, invitations, and accepting invitations in DayBack. Why Use Google to Send Notifications? Email notifications were built into Salesforce Classic, but they’re getting harder to do in Lightning. Having Google Calendar send notifications for your Salesforce events is a great alternative. Even FileMaker developers, who have always been able to […]