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Now more than any other time I can remember, Salesforce Admins are busy—busy working with business analysts on new or improved processes, busy learning about a new Salesforce feature, busy volunteering in the community, and busy balancing stakeholder requests. This is why it’s more important than ever that you share your perspective with the community and build your overall … [Read more...] about Build a Blog: A New Series to Help You Jump-Start Your Own Admin Blog

A best practice for building and configuring new solutions is to always build and test outside of your production org. But what org type should you use for building and testing? There are many resources that break down sandboxes and scratch orgs separately—but on the Admin Relations team, we often hear from admins who want clarification about the difference between the two and … [Read more...] about Sandboxes vs. Scratch Orgs and How to Use Them

As an admin, it’s important to ensure data quality in your org. This can be a bit challenging when you have records with a loosely coupled relationship with one another (that is, a lookup relationship), but you need to ensure that at least one of these records exists. You can’t use your handy admin tools like validation rules or required fields to solve this. So, what do you … [Read more...] about How the Admin Relations Team Uses Salesforce to Manage Content Creation

This Black History Month, Salesforce is shining a light on some of our nonprofit customers who support and work with Black communities in the United States. This blog post is the third in a series that will appear each week in February, focused on the themes of resilience, compassion, and social justice. Third in the series is a Q&A with Paul Simpson, Chief Financial Officer at … [Read more...] about Black History Month 2023: Q&A with Paul Simpson, CFO of LifeMoves

Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Lynn Guyer, Manager, Salesforce Practice at Forefront Telecare. Join us as we chat about how she was able to build a no-code, out-of-the-box solution for one of her organization’s biggest operational challenges. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Lynn Guyer. … [Read more...] about Solve Problems by Experimenting with Lynn Guyer