Friday, November 18, 2011

MS Word: "... should be opened as read-only unless changes to it need to be saved. Open as read-only?"

I got this message when opening a Word document, which I just cleansed with the Hidden Data Removal tool from Microsoft.  Not sure why it'd flag the file so, but it apparently did.  Here's how to correct it (sourced from this thread):
  1. Open the file - make sure not in Read-only mode
  2. On Tools menu, click Options. 
  3. Click Security. 
  4. De-select the "Read-only recommended" check box, and then click OK. 
  5. Click Save.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Confused Conga Composer

First of all, Conga Composer is a great document generation tool on the Salesforce.com platform.  Probably the best, in my opinion.  But it does have some odd issues, like everything in the world.  The most odd one is this issue of not able to accommodate two entry points in the same browser session.  So if you try to run Conga off both your production org and a sandbox org, which is quite common for a developer/admin, it totally gets confused and becomes unable to retrieve templates.  You might see "No Templates available" on the template selection screen, and an odd error like "can't open E:\templates\v0000010345" when actually trying to merge.

Fortunately I usually have different browsers open for different orgs, so that's not an issue for me.  I only noticed it once when I was trying to test IE compatibility for multiple orgs.  It looks odd because you'd think the transactions should always be identified by SFDC session IDs and instance endpoints, which has nothing to do with the client launch point.  Besides, exposing the server info in error messages is never a good idea.  :)