Salesforce imposes maximum limits on selected features. The stated limits for the features may vary based on the Edition.

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Build Custom Batch Queue to centrally manage Batches & circumvent the Max. 5 Batches in parallel

Just assume you had an app that would have to process huge amounts of records in an org in multiple ways each day. For each "way" you have a separate Batchable class and those are triggered ...
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Is it possible to temporarily increase dev sandbox 10 MB limit?

we are importing test data and hit our 10MB limit before migrating to our prod org which has 65GB limit. Is there any way to get additional 10MB for 1 week ? At the top of our storage usage are ...
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Which type of enterprise software cannot be build on Force.com? [closed]

Having reached nearly every Governor limit in the last time I would now state that even with the knowledge and application of all best-practices in this space there are limitations when it comes to ...
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Is there a way to know if a bulk query result was truncated due to size limit?

The documentation says that bulk queries' results are limited in size. http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_asynch/Content/asynch_api_concepts_limits.htm However I can't find any ...
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Determining source sObject of “Custom Relationship Limit Exceeded” managed package install message

I recently had an install of our managed package fail with the message: Custom Relationship Limit Exceeded Cannot create new relationship. Each object can have no more than 25 custom ...
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Is the “filtered lookup fields per objects” limit a hard one?

In our software we have a somewhat generic object which is extended by douzens of record types (we tried to somewhat simulate object oriented class extension/inheritance). We now reached the "You ...
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What counts as a login for login-limited licenses (Authenticated Sites / High Volume Customer Portal)?

We're re-building a webservice that previously had it's own authentication and security model baked in. Instead of having the webservice handle this we're looking at switching to using Authenticated ...
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Master-Detail Relationship Limit

Salesforce says "As a best practice, don't exceed 10,000 child records for a master-detail relationship." here : http://na1.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/relationships_considerations.htm What does "for ...
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“Maximum stack depth reached: 3” when doing String.replaceAll()

I am getting a strange "Maximum stack depth reached: 3" when doing a String.replaceAll() with bigger Regex on a quite big string (40 lines of text). I am trying to remove any comments and literal ...
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Does an Inactive Validation Rule that references a Spanning Relationship count towards the limit?

I have a managed package with a number of Validation Rules on Opportunity that currently involve spanning relationships. This has become a limitation when attempting to install into various customer ...
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Performance of objects with many relationship and formula fields?

I have the need to create a denormalized, flattened view of multiple sobjects in Salesforce.com. In numbers this means 20 Lookup fields, around 100 text formula fields to extract data from those ...
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Governor Limit question: Large data set. How do I avoid hitting governor limits?

We have a pretty complex trigger suite on our org. We've built a lot of custom functionality. I'm starting to worry about governor limits and not really understanding how to manage them. I've read ...
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Tapping into the Org's limits

How can I tap into my org's limits/usage programmatically? I know of the Limits class but that seems to only show me usage for the current execution 'thread' I would like to tap into the org wide ...
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Salesforce 24 Hour Limits Reset Time

The SF limits are said to reset every 24 hours - how do I know when exactly? Is it on some constant time of day for all the orgs, or based on the org time zone? For example - if I have crossed the ...
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How can you avoid hitting 24-hour limits on emails and future calls?

I realize there are plenty of ways to try to avoid hitting limits in the first place, but when it comes to features with 24 hour limit plans, how can you know if you're getting close to them? And ...
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Convert SObject.toString output to a CSV value line (Regexp..)

I am running into ToManyStatements Limits while creating a CSV blob for with the following code for(SObject row: list) { for(String fieldName : allFields) { line += fieldName + ','; } ...
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Create CSV file bigger than 15 MB from within Force application (no dataloader, etc.)

I need to export data to XML/Excel or CSV from Salesforce.com Checking the current limits I just see those options and limitation: Render file via Visualforce page with special Mime-Type <- ...
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Submit records for approval in bulk without hitting DML Statement limit

I've got code to create and submit for approval a custom object. I'm running into the DML statement limit. As far as I can see each record I submit for approval takes up a DML statement, but there's ...
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Way to identify API usage and limits using API?

Is there an API method to return how much API calls were used and how much total calls is allowed by my SF org?
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Notification of Rejected Email

The documentation on governor limits states that: Email services rejects email messages and notifies the sender if the email (combined body text, body HTML and attachments) exceeds ...
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Trigger SOQL on Parent/Child/Optional Child situation (Too many SOQL Queries)

The following is a part of an AFTER trigger that I have written. It works fine - on 1 record... but when you get a few more than 1 I am getting the Too Many SOQL Queries error. The first select ...
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ContentPublication limit exceeded

Is there a limit on the content publication ? Is this the same as content version? The docs say "The maximum number of versions that can be published in a 24-hour period is 5,000. " Does this ...
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Increasing Dashboard Filter Option Limit

Is there a way to get around the Dashboard limit of 10 options per filter? Our use case is that we have around 60 users that we'd want to be able to see the Dashboard from their perspective, and the ...
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Time limit exceeded and 'Response size exceeded 30MB organization limit' and Semi-join subselects not allowed

Am getting a time limit exceeded error when am trying to pull a set of records through database.getquerylocator and binding it to vf page (jqgrid). I have about 80000 records but am limiting it to ...
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How to query more than 50000 records in apex and bind it in vf page in jqgrid and paging?

How to query more than 50000 records (78000 records) in apex and bind it in vf page in jqgrid and implement paging in it? I tried querying through SOQL and assigning it to list.. Am unable to query ...
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When should I start worring about the number of Records on a single object in a SF Org?

Just completing a project that has been deployed into a global SF Org. We have one object in particular that is likely to require a large number of records and is a related list on most pages. At ...
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How to get Chatter limits in apex?

There is currently a limit that a single user can only follow 500 entities on Chatter. This is very low for a Social Enterprise, in my opinion, and I figure that it will have to get increased once ...
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How can I avoid Force.com Sites Limits?

http://login.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/sites_limits.htm There are limitations on bandwidth and processing time. Has anyone run up against these limits? How do people mitigate the likelihood of ...
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Unit test SOQL limit setting up data model

I have run in to this situation where the data model is very complex and since SF doesn't support mocks (e.g., Mockito) there are so many SOQL executions in just setting up the data model (triggers, ...
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Do archived documents in Salesforce CRM content count against storage limitations?

I am loking for info if archived Content counts against storage limitations in Salesforce. Could it be possible that only benefit of archiving Content is having them not displayed in search results ...
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SOAP API Request with body larger than 16 Kilobytes results in Timeout Exception

I stumbled upon an interesting limitation, it seems that SOAP API endpoint handles requests larger than 16Kb differently --- whenever body is larger than that request just times out. We're using ...
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How to detect and block visual force page from scraping?

We are considering developing a new version of our website (where our customers can purchase and manage certain types of content) on the force.com platform. Looking into the impact of governor limits ...
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Limits on required Lookup Filters when deployed in a managed package

I have a managed package with a number of Lookup fields from Opportunity to Contact and Opportunity to a custom object. For each of these lookups I'd like to restrict the records the user can select ...