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 […]

Editor’s note: This post was updated on May 30, 2023, with the latest information and resources. Understanding how to create data sets in Salesforce is key to creating accurate reports. The data you and your users want to report on is not always stored in records from a single object. Many times you will need […]

Stay up to date with the latest developments in Salesforce technology by joining us Live at TrailheaDX! The first broadcast will start at 9:30 am PT for the pre-keynote show hosted by Gillian Bruce and Kiran Manyala – they have an awesome line up of Trailblazers they’re interviewing. You won’t want to miss it! Watch […]

At TrailheaDX, EdCast is proud to announce the launch of SalesU 2.0. This is an updated version of our Sales Ramping and Enablement Suite. This blog post is a sneak peek of what you as the Salesforce Admin can do with SalesU to build apps faster without code. It also means you can empower other […]

We’ve all been there. At the end of the day, you look back to what was accomplished and think “If only I had a few more hours, I’d be able to finish more work and be more productive.” It begs the question: Do we really need more hours or just better tools to help us […]

Summer ’17 is here! A few weeks ago, we recorded the Admin Preview for Release Readiness Live to help you get the short(ish) list of the features we think are the most exciting for Admins in this release. All of these features are in Lightning, but don’t fret if you are still using Classic! Use […]