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Cheat Sheets [Downloads]

Posted December 3rd, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by John Coppedge

Check out the developerforce wiki for some great cheat sheets.  I can see how these would be an absolute lifesaver, especially during the initial learning process.

[edit: updated URL]

http://developer.force.com/cheatsheets

[edit: Direct to PDF shortcuts removed by request]

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Summer 09 Training

Posted July 20th, 2009 in Certified Administrator, New Releases by John Coppedge

 

With this release, Salesforce certified folk are only required to complete training.  No exam required! 

I believe this training is open to the public.  I was able to access it through this link, while logging in through one of my uncertified accounts. 

 

The Sales Cloud

 

Analytic Enhancements

  • Charts
    • Greater control over labels and colors
    • Donut and Funnel chart types added
    • Not automatically enabled.  When enabled, you cannot return to the old charting engine.
  • Dashboards
    • Brighter colors and additional colors added
    • Display actual amounts and percentages on graphs
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  • Analytic Snapshots
    • Can now be bundled in managed and unmanaged packages
    • Schedule and running user cannot be packaged and must be configured after package installation

 

Automated Campaigns

  • Campaign Member
    • View/edit/delete/clone each record
    • Custom fields and page layout editor now available for campaign members (e.g. RSVP status, Food preference, etc.)
    • Workflow rules for campaign members (e.g. if RVSP “Yes” send email alert with agenda)
    • Use triggers for additional customization
    • Setup –> Customize –> Campaigns –> Campaign Members

 

List Views for Account and Sales Teams

  • My Sales Teams is now a filter criteria for list views on accounts and opportunities (account teams must be enabled)
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Recurring Tasks

  • Can edit individual tasks, or the series
  • Must have an end date
    • Provided button to calculate max end date (based upon number of tasks created)
  • Recurrence icon on recurring tasks
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  • Turned on by default (but can be turned off)
  • Outlook sync not supported for recurring tasks (planned for a future released)

 

Admin Enhancements

  • Platform (Force.com Edition) profiles can now be given 10 existing CRM administrator permissions
  • Delegated data administration now possible (View All and Modify All per object) on platform profiles
  • Profile Setup Audit Trail logs changes to a profile, change author, and time of change
  • When cloning a profile, Login Hours and Login IP Ranges are now cloned as well

 

Content Enhancements

  • Content delivery now includes option for password protecting content
  • Administrator can set default password (org wide) for content delivery
  • Reporting for featured content and ratings
  • Creation of content packs and the presentation assembly can now be disabled (org wide)

 

Mobile Enhancements

  • Blackberry
    • Related list now on the detail page of a record
    • Clone existing records
    • Create links from Salesforce records to visualforce pages or web tabs
    • Improved Storm support
  • iPhone
    • List view enhancements
    • Lead conversion support
    • Calendar style browser for events
    • Products and price book support

 

Sharing UI Enhancements

  • Sharing administrator pages load faster
  • Customized list views

 

 

The Service Cloud

 

Salesforce to Salesforce Cases and Case Comments

  • Share records from one organization to another (Salesforce to Salesforce)
    • Supports cases, leads, opportunities, accounts, contacts, activities, products, opportunity products, and custom objects
  • Near real time updates
  • Includes reporting and workflow capabilities
  • Records can be shared manually or through sharing rules

 

Advanced Customer Portal User Management

  • Ability to disable customer and partner users (new buttons on contact record)
  • Ability to disable and an entire account’s access to customer and partner portals (new buttons on account record)
  • Portal users can now be transferred between accounts (will take on role of new account or create a role will be created if none exists)
  • Portal users can now be merged

 

Advanced Case Workflow

  • Workflow rules can now be created when comments are added to cases
    (notice that case is now selectable when creating a workflow rule on case comment)
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The Custom Cloud

 

Force.com Sites

  • Publish VisualForce pages to branded domains entirely through the force.com platform.
  • Sites is now live!

 

Organization-Wide Email Addresses

  • Generic from email address and name
  • Specify which profiles can send from each org wide address
  • When sending an email, users select the email from the “from” address
    • Can only be used when sending a single email (no mass email support, no workflow rules support!)
    • Email address must be verified (activation link sent to address)

 

Workflow Process Visualizer

  • Graphical representation of approval process (BETA)
  • Read only representation

 

Visualforce Enhancements

  • Ability to add visualforce page as a dashboard component
    • Will display information based on the user logged in, not the running user
  • Ability to use visualforce pages as custom help
    (when users click this link) 
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Declarativ
e App Builder Enhancements

  • TEXT() function support for picklists in formulas and workflow field updates
  • INCLUDES(), ISNULL(), PRIORVALUE(), and ISCHANGED() support for multi-select picklists
  • Support for encoding functions in formuals: HTMLENCODE, JSENCODE, JSINHTMLCODE, URLCODE
  • Managed package versioning and deprecation support