As we stare down the move to Lightning Experience across all Salesforce orgs (take it from a mama, time flies), our user base is going to have the biggest adjustment. Hold their hands, tell them it is for the best to migrate, and keep ‘the switch’ quiet! Whatcha talkin’ ’bout, Willis? You know the link READ MORE
Category: Unintentional Comedy
#WTHWednesday – The Accidentals’ Salesforce Fails (Take 1)
Recently I have had the pleasure of getting out the of the org I had been comfortable in for about two and a half years and into a Lightning org. This led to several WTH moments as I swear my brain forgot everything it had ever learned about Salesforce. The other Accidentals and I got to chatting READ MORE
Foiled by FLS…Again
I was once again foiled by field level security. Seems to be a theme in my life lately. We had set up a basic flow that took a community user through a single screen flow to escalate a case. All initially seemed fine. It ran well in debug mode. It then ran well once the READ MORE
Foiled by FLS… The Hunt for a Missing Report
I’ve been working on an org with some fairly complicated security requirements that has been causing me lots of lost sleep. I thought we were finally rounding the bend with this project when yet another problem arose. After a few hours, we resolved the issues caused by process builder not being bulkified and I turned READ MORE
Imposter Much? How to Spin a Challenge to Your Authority
I’ve been a bit quiet around the Accidental Admin camp lately, partially because in addition to being an Accidental Admin I am also an accidental runner, training for my third half marathon. Of course, I was looking forward to tapering so I could get back to some of the things I love, like this space. READ MORE
Trust but Verify
There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. – Robin Sharma Have you ever come up with a Salesforce solution so genius that it solved a problem that didn’t even exist? I did when our org converted most of our users from Salesforce Licenses to Platform Starter Licenses. Though the licensing savings are real, the READ MORE
Turkey Tom: The Time I Screwed up a Cornucopia of Data
You ever shift a single row in a spreadsheet and not discover it until later? Yeah, happens sometimes, no big deal…until it is. I’ll set the scene – its Thanksgiving week, I’m visiting family in Delaware, armed with two laptops so I can deploy a 6-month long build and data load side-by-side. The data I READ MORE
A First-Timer’s Dreamforce Story: Everything I Own Says “Salesforce”
I’ve been to big conferences before; in a previous career field, the biggies had 30,000+ attendees packing the halls of giant convention centers in Orlando, Chicago, Dallas, etc. Heading to my first Dreamforce, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what to expect. My group arrived at the airport, took an Uber to READ MORE