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Are You Ready for Lightning Experience? Let the Readiness Check Be Your Guide

We know you’re hearing a lot about Lightning Experience. You’ve probably seen some awesome demos during our keynotes. Maybe you even created some cool dashboards during the #LightningChallenge. You’re excited about the prospects of Lightning Experience. But still… you haven’t kicked off the migration process yet. “Seems like a lot of work” you might say. […]

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Migration Assistant: Your Path into the Lightning Experience

Have you checked out the Lightning Migration Assistant page in setup? As a Salesforce Admin, getting familiar with this page is a great first step to starting your journey to Lightning Experience. To help you be successful we want to give you a tour of this page, starting at the top. The different sections are […]

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Salesforce Admin: Karen Xiao

Read through this profile of #AwesomeAdmin Karen Xiao! Favorite Hack: The Power of 1 Admin Hero: SteveMo Admin Motto: “Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply” – Stephen Covey Why did you become an Admin? I just became a Salesforce Admin less than a year ago, after spending over 20 years […]

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Salesforce Admin: Nana Eto

Read through this profile of #AwesomeAdmin Nana Eto! Favorite Feature: Chatter, Reports & Dashboards, Process Builder Admin Motto: Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try. Fun Fact: I’ve played percussion instruments for 25 years, and always wanted to be a professional drummer. Why did you become a Salesforce Admin? Our company started […]

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Learn Lightning: Compact Layouts

One of the most exciting things about Lightning is that it helps your users find the information they need easier, with fewer clicks and a better UI. The next topic in our Learn Lightning series is how you can use compact layouts in Lightning to bubble the most important information to the top of the […]

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Bring the Salesforce Spring ’17 Release to Your Users

Salesforce Administrators wear many hats, and when it comes to Salesforce releases we are readers, learners, and communicators. With Spring ’17 release, there are so many great features for Admins that will make your end-users love using Salesforce, and great features for you to continue to drive efficiencies and be leaders in your organization. Here […]

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Two New Keys to Unlock Your Users’ Event Data

Have you been exploring the Winter ’17 release with event monitoring? If so, you might have seen the Event Monitoring log lines that contain LOGIN_KEY and SESSION_KEY. These new fields tie together all the different events in a Salesforce user’s login session or admin’s activity session, respectively. Introducing Login Key and Session Key The Login […]

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Learn Lightning: Create and Edit Permission Sets

Ready to learn more about how to be a Lightning Admin? So far in this Learn Lightning series, we’ve learned how to do a lot of common Admin tasks: how to use setup, create apps, create & clone users, create groups, create & edit objects, create reports, and create & edit profiles. Today I’m focusing […]

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Salesforce Admin: Davina Hanchuck

Read through this profile of #AwesomeAdmin Davina Hanchuck! Favorite Feature: Process Builder Favorite Hack: Images in fields. Admin Motto: Lean on your community. (That’s where I get all my answers!) Why did you become an Admin? I chose to become a Salesforce Admin because the role was intriguing and the system just made sense. Every […]

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