While it does not seem like spring in most of the US, Salesforce releases do not seem to care. Our Spring release is just around the corner, and my goodness, it comes jam-packed with so many items that I couldn't just pick a few. To keep this easy, I've separated them into categories and left … Continue reading Spring ’23 – these are a few of my favorite things!
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How to Edit Activated Orders
I previously wrote an article describing the different Order settings of Salesforce OOTB. Once you have enabled those settings, some additional adjustments can still be made at either a profile or permission set level to allow users edit activated orders. All of the below settings are in the App Permissions in the Sales section: 1. … Continue reading How to Edit Activated Orders
Considerations for Contact Org Wide Settings
When setting up your Salesforce instance, it is important to consider your sharing settings for the Account, Contact, Opportunity, and Case objects. This is because these objects are the most tied together in how they can be set up. Greyed out represents when the Account is changed all others that are changed If you want … Continue reading Considerations for Contact Org Wide Settings
How to Set a Default Experience for a Profile
The Salesforce org you are working with might have more than one Experience, and your users may be able to access more than one Experience. In this scenario, you would likely want your users to default to a selected community, including all communications coming out of Salesforce. To do this is quite simple. Go to … Continue reading How to Set a Default Experience for a Profile
What can I do with Lightning Apps?
Lightning Apps in Salesforce are a great tool to have at your disposal for giving your users a streamlined view of the things they need at their fingertips. As a quick reminder on how to create a Lightning App go to: Setup --> App Manager --> New Lightning App Here are all of the things … Continue reading What can I do with Lightning Apps?
How to Migrate to Flow (beta)
At the time of writing this article, two important factors to note: This is in Beta - so please read the details and terms provided in the release notesThis is ONLY working for Workflow Rules, not Process Builders With the upcoming retirement of Workflow Rules and Process Builders, Salesforce is giving us the tools we … Continue reading How to Migrate to Flow (beta)
Blue Canvas CPQ Deployer Review
This post is sponsored by Blue Canvas. All content and opinions are my own. Recently a colleague introduced me to Blue Canvas - a company focused on CI/CD and DevOps tools for the Salesforce ecosystem. They recently launched CPQ Deployer, a tool to help administrators move CPQ data from one org to another. If you … Continue reading Blue Canvas CPQ Deployer Review
How to create a single Accounts and Service Contracts report
This tutorial will walk you through how to create a report that meets the requirement of Accounts with Service Contracts. The goal is not to add any fields and to start from the Account object. Unfortunately, Salesforce does not support Accounts and Service Contracts together for a custom Report Type as of the day of … Continue reading How to create a single Accounts and Service Contracts report
Edit fields on a Report (Beta)
Finally! One of the things I have been asked for the most since I first took a job as a Salesforce Admin was the ability to edit inline a report. Well, our wishes have come true. In the Spring '22 release, this feature is in Beta and available to use. To use this, first, go … Continue reading Edit fields on a Report (Beta)
Spring ’22 Release Notes Favorites
Here are my favorites from the Salesforce Spring '22 Release MFA IS COMING Built-In Authenticators are now available including Touch and Face ID. SSO into Salesforce via Slack! Scoping Rules are becoming Generally Available Use Picklists to control Scoping Rules Speedier CPQ, or so I hope A billing fix related to Crediting Invoices Org wide … Continue reading Spring ’22 Release Notes Favorites
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