The Salesforce Admin community delivered again! On June 1, 2017, we asked you to submit your best ideas for presenting at Dreamforce 2017 in the Admin Track. And then we waited… But not for long! Within the first 48 hours, we couldn’t refresh the dashboard fast enough to keep up with your submissions. It was so […]


Editor’s note: This post was updated on February 2, 2023, with the latest information and resources. Throughout my career, I have been to many events for Salesforce. Whether it’s a community event, Salesforce User Group, World Tour event, TrailblazerDX, or Dreamforce—feeling like you rocked an event doesn’t just happen. It takes planning, strategy, and a […]

Salesforce strives to offer great features and advanced capabilities of search in Salesforce, such as instant auto-suggestions as they type, machine-learnt relevance ranking and an awesome new search results interface in Lightning Experience. But, what if the results your users are looking for aren’t Salesforce records? Well, we’ve got a solution for that, too. As […]

Lightning in a Box is an enablement kit including everything an Admin or User Group leader would need to prepare and present an introduction to Lightning Experience to their team, stakeholders, and/or community. We created this with you in mind! As Admins, we are the ambassadors for new features and can help to guide our […]

I know you’ve heard it a million times, but I never get sick of saying (typing?) it: Here at Salesforce, Trust is our #1 value. Trust starts with Transparency, which is exactly why we pioneered cloud transparency by developing our Trust site (trust.salesforce.com) as a one-stop shop for customers to see the availability of their […]

Just over a year ago I joined the Salesforce Ohana as part of the Admin Marketing team. Since then I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing over 20 Salesforce Administrators for admin.salesforce.com/lightning – talking about everything from the innovative solutions you’re building on the Salesforce platform, your careers as Salesforce Admins, and more recently about how […]

Our recent admin webinar: Take Control of Your Org with Salesforce Optimizer covered the new maintenance, productivity, and adoption app called Salesforce Optimizer! Here’s the webinar recording: Webinar Summary What is Salesforce Optimizer? Salesforce Optimizer is THE maintenance, productivity, and adoption app for Salesforce Admins! For admins who are nearing the limits of their edition, […]

Have you checked out the new, easy-to-use, wizard-style Lightning Experience Migration Assistant in Setup? If you haven’t already, it’s time to get familiar with this tool so you can start planning your move to Lightning Experience! Let’s take a tour of the Migration Assistant, starting with the left tab. The tabs are arranged to walk […]

Editor’s note: This post was updated on May 30, 2023, with the latest information and resources. This is the second post of a two-part series. Part 1 is available here. Welcome back! Up until now, we’ve been setting the primary object as the only object in the report type (scenario 1) or as the parent object […]