As I’ve posted before, branded HTML emails are a great way to push your brand AND have the extra benefit of tracking in Salesforce whether your email was received and opened. So let’s look at the first step at creating an HTML email – the letterhead. What is a letterhead in Salesforce? Think of old school…
At this point you should be on the Winter 13 release of Salesforce.com and you can start checking out one of the most anticipated new features – touch.salesforce.com, or “Salesforce Touch” as it is referred to in help. I say most anticipated because it was announced last year at Dreamforce ’11. The number one question…
A question that I hear frequently from my clients, and in the Salesforce Answers Community, is (1) “how do I know if my email got through” and (2) “did my client open my email?” There are a few places to look on the Lead and Contact record to find this information as well as two…
Salesforce.com launched the AppExchange back in 2005 (can you believe it’s been that long!). At that time BusinessWeek called it the “eBay of business software.” In 2006 there had been 16,000 installations initiated. The AppExchange circa 2007 (you’ve come a long way baby!): By late 2011 the AppExchange hit 1 million installs. Now as I am writing…
I had an interesting request from one of my clients today, and I thought the solution would be a great quick blog post for other Salesforce Administrators. The request was to enforce Users to create an Opportunity during the Lead Conversion process (for marketing reporting). You can accomplish this with a Lead Validation Rule. Remember…
From time to time as an Administrator you’ll need to take a string of text and parse out a few things so that you can use the information elsewhere. The other day I was working with a client that required me to take a single Latitude / Longitude coordinate and separate the string into individual…
If your company ships products, a quick but high value update you can do to Salesforce as a System Administrator is add links to your page layouts to track your packages via DHL, FedEx or UPS. You create the links by going to the object where you would like to place the links. In our…
One of the first questions we ask when working with a client is “What edition of Salesforce do you have?” Most know, but occasionally they don’t. It’s not hard to find out if you know where to look. Salesforce tells you in a couple of places. First, though harder to spot, you can see what…
Any good Admin from time to time has to roll-up their sleeves and do some work with the Apex Data Loader (or LexiLoader if you’re using a Mac). It’s the “go to” data utility for mass uploading, updating and deleting records – but did you know you can also use it to mass upload attachments?…
Even with the meteoric resurgence of Apple in the past few years, Salesforce does not have an official email sync solution for Mac Mail (at least at the time of this article). Fortunately for us there is a Salesforce developer named Simon Fell that has come to our rescue with a solution called Maildrop (BTW…