Let’s face it, 2016 has been a tough year for many of us. As the year winds down, I wanted to share some of the best parts of 2016 for the AwesomeAdmin world: great new features, incredible community moments, and some of my favorite stories to help brighten your new year. 1) Custom Home Pages […]
Objects in Salesforce are like spreadsheets. You can put all the information you put into the columns and rows of a spreadsheet into one object. For example, I had a massive spreadsheet tracking all my guests for my wedding. I can create one custom object in Salesforce to track all the same information in a […]
As Admins, you are experts in your organization and part of being an expert is staying informed about what apps and permissions have access to, and whether they are actually using them. With the introduction of the Lightning Experience, we have a new permission to track your users on Permission Sets and Profiles, and tracking who […]
This week on the podcast we are speaking to Senior User Researcher Mabel Chan and Principal User Researcher Alyssa Vincent-Hill—both on the UX Salesforce team. We’re diving deep into the world of personas and discussing how our research team uses personas to help us better understand our customers. Join us as Mabel and Alyssa define […]
It’s week 4 of my Learn Lightning series, where I share what I’ve learned about doing common Admin tasks in Lightning, comparing them Classic. This week, I’m focusing on groups – creating, editing, and some fun things only available in Lightning. Why Create a Group? Groups are my favorite way to engage with users. My […]
Learn Lightning with me! In this Learn Lightning blog series, I’ll take you through everyday Admin tasks in Lightning that you are used to doing in Classic. Join me as I guide you through my Lightning journey so that you can begin your own! So far in this series, we’ve learned how to navigate Setup and […]
We know that you are excited to use the Lightning Experience, and you probably have excited users as well. But we also know that it can feel like launching a rollout project will be a huge undertaking. To help you get started, we think the easiest way for you to approach your Lightning rollout is […]
The next step in our journey to learn Lightning is to create an app. Here we go! 1. In Lightning, there’s a handy App Manager in Setup, which allows you see all your apps in one place and make changes to them. 2. From that App Manager page, you can click New Lightning App […]
Salesforce Lightning has been around for over a year now, so if you haven’t yet tried it, now is the time! This Learn Lightning blog series is meant to show you how to do everyday things in Lightning that you are used to doing in Classic. I’ve been using Lightning to complete Trailhead modules and […]