The Salesforce Admin Starter Kit is an unmanaged installable package for Salesforce that contains a variety of items great for any newly created Salesforce org. Designed for any small business or start-up that recently took the plunge and got Salesforce and wants to get their org up and running with some basic workflows, email templates, … Continue reading Salesforce Admin Starter Kit
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How to: In-App Guidance
In the Winter '20 release for Salesforce, In-App Guidance was launched. This is a tool that enables you to add prompts throughout Salesforce to help provide useful guiding information to your users where and when they need it most. The Summer '20 release extends the functionality in two ways. One for those who do not … Continue reading How to: In-App Guidance
My Summer ’20 Favorites
The Summer '20 release did get pushed out this year due to Covid-19, however, we are finally in those initial phases where we get to see from the release notes what is coming out and potentially play with using a Salesforce Preview Org. I am going to share my favorite release items and let you … Continue reading My Summer ’20 Favorites
Profile and Permission Set Helper (Update)
*** You will need Lightning enabled and My Domain enabled for this app to work*** In 2018 I wrote a post about a tool put out by Salesforce Labs that was designed to help you convert your Profiles to Permissions sets. Well, thanks to a reader who called to my attention some changes to the … Continue reading Profile and Permission Set Helper (Update)
Task Queue in Spring ’20 – Not what you might think
Updated 7/3/2020 - at the bottom of the post As of the Spring '20 release, we, admins can finally provide users the ability to assign tasks to queues. For those wondering what a queue is, it is a way of routing records to a specific group of people, roles, or public groups, that enables you … Continue reading Task Queue in Spring ’20 – Not what you might think
How to setup VS Code for Salesforce
I recently had to re-install VS Code in order to complete the Winter '20 Platform Dev I maintenance exam and I found that the instructions for getting all of the pieces together are a bit jumbled, so here are my steps for getting VS Code set up with Salesforce installed and ready for creating Lightning … Continue reading How to setup VS Code for Salesforce
Permission Set Groups – Spring ’20 Release
In the Spring '20 release from Salesforce, Permission Set Groups will finally be GA (generally available). This is fantastic news because these groups are going to save all of us admins so much time and headache when it comes to assigning permission sets. You may be wondering what a permission set is or what a … Continue reading Permission Set Groups – Spring ’20 Release
SF9to5’s Top 10 posts for 2019
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Here are the top 10 new posts in 2019: How to Set up Related Quick Links Salesforce Lightning Reference Guide Related Lists Summer ’19 Updates How to: Field Trip by RingLead Understanding CPQ Renewal Pricing Method Sending an Email using Macros in Lightning How to Set up Twin Fields in CPQ Updated Email … Continue reading SF9to5’s Top 10 posts for 2019
How to Run a Report on Reports
Perhaps you are thinking about doing a Reports cleanup as part of your Lightning Transition. Salesforce has made it easy to report on Reports. Possible good use cases for using this Report type are: seeing how many reports you have in total, how many have been run recently, how many have NEVER been run (trust … Continue reading How to Run a Report on Reports
How to: Audit Salesforce Profiles
Recently, I wrote a series of posts called The Ultimate Profile Auditing Guide. The purpose of the guide is to help you navigate viewing Profiles on a large scale through Excel as a means of running an audit on your Profiles. Below is the list of posts in the order that they go in. The … Continue reading How to: Audit Salesforce Profiles
