To close the year off I wanted to call out the top 3 posts from 2016 and let you know that I will be taking a few weeks off, but will be back in January! Passing Salesforce CPQ + Study Guide How I became a Certified Salesforce Admin Mass Report Mover I hope you have … Continue reading Happy Holidays!
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Kickstart your Lightning Experience with the Lightning Accelerator
The Lightning Experience Accelerator is one of the many accelerators offered by Salesforce. This particular one is designed for any company looking to get started using Lightning within their organization. It is quite ideal especially for those who have had limited Lightning exposure or knowledge. The Accelerator follows a similar pattern to many of the … Continue reading Kickstart your Lightning Experience with the Lightning Accelerator
Review: Apex Academy Part 2
I am finally back with part 2 of my review of David Liu's Apex Academy. I had to take some time off before completing it due to other Salesforce items becoming a higher priority on my to-do list (see What I learned merging 2 Instances if you would like to know more). The second course is … Continue reading Review: Apex Academy Part 2
What I learned from merging SFDC Orgs
I recently took on a project to merge a foreign separate instance of Salesforce into our main instance of Salesforce. The timeline was extremely tight and short, with very little wiggle room - I am talking about 4 weeks from when the instance would be shutting down for good. The first step of getting our … Continue reading What I learned from merging SFDC Orgs
Mass Report Mover
Have you ever needed to be able to move hundreds, if not thousands of reports in Salesforce? Well, I recently needed to move over 10K reports and since Salesforce has not provided a solution for this yet, I came up with a tool that allows such movement. Business Case I was recently inspecting one of … Continue reading Mass Report Mover
Trailhead Tracker
This post is a long time coming and I don't mean because I am 2 months behind the release (plus some additional time due to Trailhead Tracker being buggy). Back when I started as an admin I was tasked with figuring out how to provide a Salesforce 101 training to my end users. I was … Continue reading Trailhead Tracker
Passing Salesforce CPQ + Study Guide
This weekend I passed the CPQ Specialist Exam after a lot of hard work and a bit too much googling. I want to share my experience with the exam and my tips for passing hopefully on the first try!
Advance Filtering for Workflow Rules
Have you ever had a time where you needed to know what workflows were going to run in your Salesforce instance? Unfortunately, out of the box, Salesforce only allows you to filter so far, giving only the options really to see which rules run on a certain object and if they are active.
Review of CPQ 211 Course
According to Salesforce, the CPQ 211 course is for: "1) Administrators who will have experience implementing Salesforce CPQ solutions in a customer-facing role, 2) Solution Architects, Implementation Consultants, Developers seeking to understand full capabilities in order to formulate technical solutions within Salesforce CPQ. This course will help one prepare for the Salesforce CPQ Specialist Certification. … Continue reading Review of CPQ 211 Course
Release Management for Salesforce Admin
This week I wrote a guest post for focusonforce.com. Here is a quick excerpt from it: "Release Management is an all-encompassing topic including agile style sprint planning, tracking of future projects and backlogged items, QA/test plans, and release notes. For Salesforce, I see these broad, typically engineering concepts, having specific and useful definitions and purpose." … Continue reading Release Management for Salesforce Admin
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