Admin Basics
"Where is this field being used?" I bet you've asked yourself that question quite a bit! While it's easy enough to determine if a field is on the page layout, or visible to users, it is not as easy to identify workflows, reports or
Business & Career
The So You Want My Job series provides a day in the life overview of a particular Salesforce job, written by a professional who holds that job title. Hopefully, these posts will provide insights and answer some of your questions. Today, we'll get a glimpse into the role
Business & Career
Moving into a Consulting role in 2015, I quickly learned how much work time was spent on non-work items. As a Consultant, time tracking is a huge part of my day, and it became very clear, very fast, just how unproductive I was in a traditional salary role! In my
Admin Basics
Managing Salesforce users doesn't seem like a big deal but believe it or not, there are best practices for managing Salesforce users. Incorrect management of users and licenses can cause data integrity issues in the org among other things. Best practices apply to every area of Salesforce and
Business & Career
The So You Want My Job series provides a day in the life overview of a particular Salesforce job, written by a professional who holds that job title. Hopefully, these posts will provide insights and answer some of your questions. Today, we'll get a glimpse into the role
AppExchange & Reviews
Every Salesforce Administrator and Consultant looks for tools to make tasks easier. While Salesforce is easy to learn, there are some actions which require a multitude of clicks. Field creation, for example, is easy but takes a long time when creating a whole host of new fields. Exporting org metadata
Admin Basics
One of the things I love about Process Builder is that you don't need to know code to configure a solution that once required Apex. Because Process Builder is built with Flow as the chassis, you can do a lot of cool stuff with it and not know
Business & Career
$3,726,400. That's a lot of money - and the amount that you could be earning over the course of your working life as a Salesforce Professional in Denver. If you've ever thought that becoming a millionaire was unattainable, you thought wrong. Over the course
Lightning Experience
Over the last few weeks, I've seen a lot of questions on the Success Community wondering if it would be wise to switch over to Lightning Experience given the org's configuration and the missing features of LEX. I've written a guest post, featured on
Admin Basics
Salesforce field history tracking is a great built in feature, but doesn't always meet the requirements of the business and can be cumbersome when trying to report on the historical data. Administrators struggle specifically with Opportunity field history reporting. Determining stage duration, how an Opportunity moves through the
Origins
I got my very first computer when I was in the 6th grade and it was love at first sight. With lights shining bright and my heart skipping a beat, it was a scene right out of a movie! Granted all I did was play games on it, but nevertheless
Lightning Experience
Over the last few weeks, I've been using Lightning Experience exclusively in my companies production org and have had several clients asking to trial it in their own orgs. I have to say, I'm actually really enjoying the experience, but getting Lightning Experience up and running