Blog: Are you currently working with a Salesforce consulting company? If so, I hope it’s going well and all your Salesforce dreams are coming true. But if it’s not going well, you shouldn’t feel like you’re stuck. You can always seek out other partners. Or maybe it is going well but the current partner is […]
Blog: Want to store a billion records? Then Big Objects may be for you. Be wary though, there’s only a handful of ways it’s meant to be used. It’s also a tool that isn’t as intuitive as you’d expect. I still remember hearing conversations from previous employers along the lines of “Why does Salesforce’s storage […]
Blog: Heroku is a powerful tool to supplement your value as a developer. In this article, I’m going to discuss how to combine Heroku and Salesforce to collect valuable information on the Internet for free. I’ve been dabbling in Python and web scraping for a few months now and felt comfortable meshing multiple systems together […]
Blog: Today, online communication is crucial to a company’s success. Luckily, Salesforce has a great tool to help improve online communication…communities. Salesforce communities help companies communicate with customers, employees, and the general public. Communities are like websites and intranets that allow companies to open data from their Salesforce system all while controlling access depending on […]
Blog: This article assumes you have a basic knowledge of Salesforce administration Sandboxes are a useful tool but can be difficult to manage without automation. Here at Chicago Cloud Group, we follow Salesforce’s best practices for managing development paths. It’s not uncommon for us to have at least one Developer Org where all development starts. […]
Blog: This article assumes you have a basic knowledge of mobile development and Salesforce administration. For years I’ve had a love for Android, and you can imagine my excitement when Salesforce created a way to integrate the two technologies. I remember my first “real” program was an Android app which played Rock, Paper, Scissor, Lizard, Spock. I was 17 at the […]
Blog: The dashboard feature within Salesforce is a great tool to present your data in a user-friendly, visually pleasing way. With multiple components, from data pulling from your reports, users have a one-stop shop of information displayed through graphs, tables, gauges, and more. Each component can pull from its own report, or multiple components can […]
Blog: Have you ever needed to see the activity on a record in your CRM after an employee has left only to find that nothing exists? Or have you ever had someone send you an Excel spreadsheet with information about your accounts that should have been done through a CRM report? Unfortunately, this isn’t uncommon. Many companies using CRMs have holes and inefficiencies that […]
Blog: Testing updates to a database is easy, but testing the user’s screen efficiently is a whole other ball game. When I was first being indoctrinated into the world of Salesforce development, User Interface (UI) testing wasn’t even mentioned. Everything was centered around ensuring Salesforce’s minimum 75% coverage was met. I still don’t see as much focus on it as I’d […]
Blog: As developers, it’s our duty to provide support to our companies and clients for things they may not even understand needs attention. I prefer to think of Salesforce orgs as living beings. They can be spawned from other instances, often contain attributes which make each of them unique, and, if not cared for properly, […]
Blog: You’ve heard it over and over…users are afraid of migrating to Salesforce Lightning Experience. Why? Well, like most things, they’re afraid of change and the unknown. As a Salesforce system administrator, or the person leading a company’s Lightning migration, it’s your job to make the unknown known. One way to do this is through […]
Blog: So, you’re working on your migration from Salesforce Classic to Lightning Experience. This is a large undertaking that includes many parts, especially for your Salesforce administrative and development team. But what about training end users when you are ready to launch a pilot group and then again when the migration is complete and ready for […]
