At 1771 Co in Minneapolis, we’re partial to a Salesforce dataloader known as dataloader.io. Although they have an Enterprise version for a monthly fee, you can get the bulk of their functionality for free – and it beats the normal…
Recently, one of our Minneapolis Salesforce clients had the requirement to track how “popular” records were by looking at how many times users had accessed them via the Web UI. At first we thought this might not be possible, especially…
When I was first asked to add a logo to a Salesforce community, I thought the task would probably take around an hour based on how easy it is to add a logo to the native Salesforce web interface. I…
Most users never learn the small details of the Salesforce environment. They are shown how to navigate and add details by another employee who wasn’t trained in either. This isn’t quite as bad as the phrase “the blind leading the…
Although it seems to be a ubiquitous idea, keeping your Salesforce environment clean can be a lot more challenging than it sounds. Now, this post is focused on the configuration and development side of Salesforce, not data cleansing (that post…
It seems like anywhere you do business in Minnesota these days, someone is using Salesforce. From the startups at Beta.mn, to the Fortune 500 companies that call Minneapolis home, to the one-man shop down the block. Salesforce is becoming a…
As it’s often asked of us, we wanted to go through the top Live Chat apps on the AppExchange and pick our favorites. We’ve done some in depth analysis of the best live chat agents for Salesforce below! LiveChat $16…
Unfortunately for many users in the Salesforce ecosystem, Salesforce has decided to do away with their HTML salesforce sidebar component. This change will go into effect with the Summer 2015 release. However, there is a way to get around this…
One of the top Salesforce IdeaExchange posts focuses on drag and drop uploads for Salesforce. Drag and drop attachments for Salesforce are such a requested feature due to the current upload functionality. Currently, it takes 6-7 clicks to upload one file…
Here’s an interesting issue I stumbled upon recently: I was trying to delete a record type, but Salesforce noted this was the Default Record Type for a number of profiles in my org. One by one I clicked into the…
