What is Salesforce multicurrency?Before we look at how multicurrency works and what you need to look out for, lets look at what it offers:Adds the ability to record amounts in different currencies. If you don’t have multicurrency enabled, then amounts are just displayed as an amount.Allows amounts to be converted, displayed and reported according to exchange ratesAllows the use of dated exchange rates so the value at… Read More
The Salesforce mantra is ‘clicks not code’ so we always look for a config solution to a problem before resorting to code. While we can set the unique indicator on a custom field to prevent duplicate values for one field across records, how do we prevent records inserted with duplicate values across all or some of the fields? Do we need to write a trigger to handle this? Or is… Read More
In most every company which prides itself on taking care of its customer base to the fullest, the Salesforce native functionality of Case Management goes hand in hand with customer success. The departments in an organization that deal with customer service, product support, issue resolution and service requests can all benefit from utilizing the case management functionalities; and related automation options; within Salesforce. As described in Salesforce Service Cloud Overview … Read More
External Ids provide a convenient way to integrate data from an external system, by allowing the use of a unique record identifer for records instead of the Salesforce Id. For example, you may define an Account Code external id on the Account object, which is the unique key for an account record in an ERP system that is integrated with Salesforce. When using DataLoader or another integration tool to update… Read More
When you hear that Salesforce has a mass email capability you may think that you don’t need a marketing automation package to do that for you. Dig a little deeper and you will find that although Salesforce can send mass emails, there are a number of limitations that may have you looking back at AppExchange products. Firstly, lets look at what you can do with Salesforce mass email capability. You… Read More
Conga Composer is one of the most widely used 3rd party AppExchange apps for document generation with Salesforce. It can be used to merge Salesforce data to produce documents in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML Email and PDF format. Here is a quick guide to generating an Excel spreadsheet with data from Salesforce. Create Your Excel Template Define the Fields and Reports it will use Add Merge Fields to the Excel… Read More
You may be faced with the situation where you need to be able to delete multiple records from a related list in one click. Standard related lists do not have a feature to select all and delete all selected records. The standard way to delete from a related list is to use the del link and delete each record individually. This can be very time consuming and tiresome if there… Read More
You may have come across cross filters when learning about Salesforce reports but having no immediate need for them, forget about them. It is only sometime later when faced with a reporting challenge that you may delve back and find that they are very useful and may even solve a problem that you thought you could not do with Salesforce reports. Lets review what reports with cross filters can do:… Read More
When you send an email from Salesforce, such as when you use the Send Email button or triggered from a workflow, you can select an email template. Email Templates in Salesforce come in four different types: Plain Text HTML using Letterhead HTML Custom Visualforce Plain Text Email Template This is the simplest email template to create. You can create it very quickly by entering the email text and including the… Read More
I was looking for a process flow diagram, that describes what happens when a lead is converted in Salesforce. I couldn’t find one, so I made my own. Once a lead is qualified, the next step is to convert the lead. In Salesforce, when you convert a lead, there are a number of options that are part of the process flow. The first step is to press the convert button…. Read More
Visual indicators are a great addition to a Salesforce page to highlight important information or values. Instead of just displaying a value, showing an image will make a much larger impact. Depending on the situation, it may be more suitable to just display a single indicator such as a caution or stop image, or if a variable can have a range of values, display a variable image according to which… Read More
There are a number of features and functionality that are part of the Salesforce platform and are available to all Salesforce solutions. They offer the technology or functionality that can be used either standalone (e.g. content management) or used to build upon (e.g. force.com code). As they are common across the different Salesforce applications (e.g. Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and custom applications) they are part of the Salesforce platform. The… Read More
You may wonder where the Activities tab is in Salesforce, so you can see a list view of activities. You can see the task list and calendar on the home page but what if you would like to see all of your tasks and events in a list. Well there is a way to get to a list view, but it is easy to overlook. In the calendar section… Read More
When it comes to Salesforce and email, it can get confusing to understand what the options are. Read on to discover 10 ways you can work with email and Salesforce together. Sending Email from Salesforce Some people may wonder whether integration to an email client such as Outlook is even necessary. If Salesforce could send and automatically process incoming emails, then couldn’t users just live in Salesforce and use it… Read More
