Reset Reminder Button - A fix for the Dismiss All Reminder Pop-up window

Oops! I Didn’t Want to Dismiss All  by Kyle Thornton

The infamous Matt Brown threw out a question the other day

After some back and forth with Matt it turned out there are many questions on the Salesforce.com Answers forums related to getting reminders back after a user clicks ‘Dismiss All’ on the reminders pop up. I decided to give this a stab and the following is the result.

I created a Visualforce Page that simply has a button on it along with a disclaimer of what the button will do.

The main purpose of the controller is to query for all open tasks and future events owned by the current user and set the reminder flag to true, allowing them to show up in the reminder pop-up when logging in. The controller will not set the reminder flag for any Tasks that never had a reminder set.  We know this because the Reminder Date is null.  Had it been set previously, it would still be set; the reminder flag was just unchecked.

Finally, I created a very simply home page component with a link to the visualforce page. The component name is “Reset Reminders For My Open Tasks and Event” and the html (be sure to check the ‘show html’ checkbox) is:

My only change would be here and replace the section of code that created the below Homepage component:

 with a button. The button on the Homepage looks like this:

Here is the code for the button:

I figured the easiest way to show the functionality was with a quick demo.

Finally, you can install an unmanaged package of the home page component (don’t forget to add it to a page layout), visualforce page, controller and test method with this link:

https://login.salesforce.com/packaging/installPackage.apexp?p0=04tE00000000RkA

*Remember, you can change the path to https://test.salesforce.com… to install to a sandbox.

This excellent Post was from a fellow blogger Kyle Thornton over on his blog knthornt.wordpress.com