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
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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
Passing Salesforce CPQ + Study Guide
It has been a few years since I originally wrote this article and passed the CPQ exam. In that time, Salesforce has made many new resources available to learn and understand CPQ.
How to give access to multiple Experience Communities
I recently worked on a Partner Portal in an environment with two other Communities, including a Customer Portal. One of the challenges I experienced during this was how to give access to the Partner to the Partner Portal and the Customer Portal. The challenge is quite easily solved with the use of a permission set … Continue reading How to give access to multiple Experience Communities
Considerations for Privacy and OWD
When you are starting in Salesforce, one of the first and most important things you will come across is organization wide defaults / org wide settings. These are the settings that define who can see the data inputted in your Salesforce org. There are many levels/layers of privacy and settings to get to a final … Continue reading Considerations for Privacy and OWD
Merging Organizations in NPSP
I have recently been volunteering for a Non-Profit organization to gain experience, specifically with the Non-Profit Success Pack/Cloud (NPSP) from Salesforce. Recently, one of the requests was to merge an Organization. Our initial thinking was to use the Manage Households button; however, I quickly learned that this only works for the Household Account Record Type … Continue reading Merging Organizations in NPSP
Summer ’21 Release – My highlights
This post is going out a little late, as by the time you are reading it, Summer '21 has already hit the shelves. However, I still want to call out what I found interesting from this newest release. MFA is coming whether we want it or not - make sure to read through this future … Continue reading Summer ’21 Release – My highlights
How to Add an Audience in Experience Builder
A while ago, Salesforce introduced Audiences as a mechanism to help make the community experience more dynamic based on different factors that the user had - for example, their location or details from a specific field in their user record. In the Winter '21 release, Salesforce expanded Audiences' capabilities and introduced the ability to use … Continue reading How to Add an Audience in Experience Builder
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