Personal tools
You are here: Home jobs

jobs

February 14, 2008

Andrew Burkhalter: In the Wild: PloneFormGen Speaking Directly to Salesforce.com ...

The Salesforce Adapter for PloneFormGen sees the light of day.

... or "So, we're hiring a database developer to help with CRM implementations ..."  But, that alternate title isn't really the point (unless you're interested ;) )

As far as I know, the following PloneFormGen "Form Folder" is the first publicly available, advertised, and production use of the Salesforce Adapter for PloneFormGen (please correct me, if I'm wrong).  If you haven't heard about this piece of code that connects Plone to Salesforce.com via PloneFormGen, you might want to start here or here

This is great for a couple reasons:

  • The particular use case (i.e. collecting applicants for an open job offering) is one that I certainly never would have thought of -- and that's the point.   Creating these shouldn't take a Plone developer.  Nor should coming up with the possible use cases.  It should be the responsibility of staff that need to build the relationships they need in order to do their work.  My colleague Steve is no slouch with CRM and Salesforce.com, but the portion of getting this on our Plone-powered site doesn't take any additional expertise.
  • It will help flush out any bugs, so that we can push onto a more mature-sounding release (i.e. final, not beta or release candidate)
  • It comes equipped with the following explanation, which I think is fantastic:
Geek FYI: this is a form built in Plone that sends your data directly to our Salesforce.com database. We'll receive a notification when that data gets created. You'll also be automatically added to a Campaign that will capture all applicants. I've got a view in the Console for keeping track of all the applicants for this position. If you understood all that, or really want to, that's a good sign...

So, um, test it out if you want...


Powered by Plone CMS, the Open Source Content Management System

This site conforms to the following standards: