During the transition process to Lightning, one of the big user experience changes you may see is the difference in how the Convert button on a Lead works. The differences are completely beneficial to your users but may take some adjusting to the visual elements of it. Let's step through the Convert screen in Lightning: … Continue reading Converting Leads in Lightning
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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 Add Campaign Members in Lightning
The user experience of many features in Lightning may differ in comparison to Classic. One such feature is adding Campaign Members to a Campaign. Related: Salesforce Lightning Reference Guide In Classic, the way you added Campaign Members was through the Manage Members button at the top of the Campaign screen. The button is a drop-down with … Continue reading How to Add Campaign Members in Lightning
How to add Product Image in Quote Line Editor
Recently, a customer wanted to display the images of the products they sell within CPQ to make it easier for their sales reps to identify the differences in the products. After much research and digging through the Salesforce documentation, I found it to be lacking in the context needed to do it in Lightning. Here … Continue reading How to add Product Image in Quote Line Editor
Salesforce Lightning Reference Guide
The Salesforce Lightning Reference Guide has been designed to help Admins and users make the move to Lightning. In conjunction with all of the wonderful tools provided by Salesforce, this guide provides tips and inspiration to enable you to successfully cross the Lightning Transition finish line. In this reference guide you will find information on the following … Continue reading Salesforce Lightning Reference Guide
How to enable Full View (Beta) in Lightning
Coming soon to Salesforce (or so is noted by the Beta sign) will be the ability to set up your page views in Lightning like you have them in Classic using Full View. Full View is designed to remove some of the UX changes that Salesforce made when they launched Lightning. Up until this point, the … Continue reading How to enable Full View (Beta) in Lightning
How to Set up Related Quick Links
One of the features somewhat buried in the Lightning platform for the Lightning record pages is the Related Quick Links feature. This is a really awesome feature because it helps all of those who are in Classic and looking to move to Lightning but are struggling with the number of Related Lists that they have … Continue reading How to Set up Related Quick Links
How to make Lightning Run Faster
Many people are resistant to the movement from Classic to Lightning. However, with the ever-increasing push from Salesforce to switch platforms, understanding how to make Lightning work for you, instead of against you, is critical. First, a little bit of background about Lightning. Classic is a server run platform, what that means is all of … Continue reading How to make Lightning Run Faster
Related Lists Summer ’19 Updates
There were some highly anticipated releases in the Summer '19 release for Related Lists, although maybe not entirely as expected. First up are the changes to Lightning Record page selections for the Related List. One of the many requested items was to be able to have more than four columns in a Related List in … Continue reading Related Lists Summer ’19 Updates
How to add a formula in Lightning Report Builder
For a while now I have been using the dropdown on the Report Builder to switch the builder into Classic mode anytime I wanted to be able to add a formula to a report. Well, lo and behold, Salesforce did add a formula function to the Lightning Report Builder, and it is quite fancy to … Continue reading How to add a formula in Lightning Report Builder
