My co-worker left as our Salesforce org went live. I inherited the org days before we started training. I had been involved in some of the development but not the whole project. Well, it was sink or swim. No pressure there. None. As we went live, I struggled to stay a page ahead of my READ MORE
Month: February 2018
A Perfect (Networking) Circle
This email was sent years ago and it just came full circle. As I documented in Making the Jump, after nearly a decade in human services & non-profit, I was stuck & frustrated as I tried to transition career fields and pursue a new direction. My mentor at the time sent this email to Larry, an READ MORE
Track Detailed Stats on Lightning Adoption
As more orgs rollout lightning to their users, admins have been looking for a method to track adoption. Up until now, the best way to track this information is using a package from Salesforce Labs: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000EFmsRUAT It provides only a few metrics as seen below that center on who is using Lightning, but its based on READ MORE
Our Favorite Things this Week: 02/23/18
1. Our New Look Ok…in hindsight our first attempt at a logo and branding for the Accidentals probably strayed too far from a Salesforce homage and ended up closer to infringement. We’ll own that one. The great thing is, the Salesforce Admins @salesforceadmns feedback gave us chance to think about our message and craft something that fits who we READ MORE
An Open Letter to the Salesforce Ohana
Dear Ohana, This is an open letter to you. It’s a love letter, actually, which might make things a bit intimately awkward since I’m sharing it with the world…but you deserve for everyone to know just how amazingly perfect I think you are. You’re always there when I have questions, and boy, do I have READ MORE
Our Salesforce Spaces
We’re all friends here right? That’s why we are inviting you into our Salesforce Spaces and hope you Share Your SalesForce Space too! #SYSFS Tom – Computers & Piracy No…not like that. I am a huge Pirates fan, so in addition to working on my recently purchased 35″ ultrawide & two MBPs (one for email/chatter, one READ MORE
Add Clickable Google Map to Custom Address Field
Was responding to questions in the Answer Community today and this one came up from former co-worker Richard Henry. This was his idea, I merely assisted in figuring out the formula, but it was such a great use case had to write it up! I’ve seen formulas to add Google Map images to custom addresses, READ MORE
Blazing a New Trail…
In honor of Rare Disease Day 2018, here is a little of my trailblazing story. Learn more about Rare Disease Day. After one too many doctor’s appointments, I realized that I was going to need to make some life changes. I had just been told that I might have mitochondrial disease. There was not a READ MORE
Our Favorite Things this Week: 2/16/18
1. Time Functions (Beta) If you’re like me, reading through over 500 pages of release notes is about as fun as resetting a user’s password for like the third time this week, STEVE. That’s why I loved Ekaterina Geta’s Salesforce blog post about the Spring ’18 beta functions that she uncovered just by digging around READ MORE
10 Things I Love About You, Salesforce
This week is Valentine’s Day and my thoughts are all about the things I love about you, Salesforce. Sure, I could be basic and say that I love the ease of use, the user interface, and the way it keeps my business running smoothly, but there is so much more to love. 10 Things READ MORE