Salesforce’s requirement that users implement MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) is going to be upon us very soon. You’re probably getting notifications every time you log in. It’s not difficult to implement, but you’ll want to alert and inform your users, and be ready to provide support to them upon rollout. I’ve provided some info below, and […]
Counting Salesforce Lightning Files Linked to any Object
Here’s a quick solution for anyone who needs to count the number of files attached to a Salesforce object. There are two relevant standard objects that attach a file to a record: ContentDocument, which contains info about the document itself, and ContentDocumentLink, which sticks it to your object. The following class takes a set of […]
Things I Learned the Hard Way about Process Builder and Scheduled Actions
IDs IDs used in criteria must be 18-digit IDs. These are standard in Lightning record-page URLs now, so this mistake isn’t as easy to make as it used to be, but it can be very vexing to identify and fix. Scheduled Actions in Process Builder Process builder allows you to schedule actions immediately (usually in […]
Automating Emails to Opportunity Contact Roles
UPDATED June 3, 2018 – you can now add email addresses to cc or bcc in the configuration step. See updated code. The Opportunity Contact Role is an odd beast, perhaps because it exists largely for information purposes in the B2B sales world for which Salesforce is built, but takes on weightier roles in nonprofit […]
Another Use Case for Hidden Hyperlinks
Imagine, if you will, a matrix report. . . You’re grouping by Account, but pulling in the Account Name via the Report Type layout, or perhaps a cross-object formula. And what happens? All your Brown Households get smooshed into one big Brown Household. A very generous household, based on the data, but not a very […]
Hidden Hyperlink and the Secret Sorting
I was designing a multi-year Donations matrix report based on an April – March fiscal year, with close date by fiscal month as the column headers, and fiscal years as the rows. One difficulty here is that Salesforce doesn’t want to put close date in both the column and the row headers, so I first […]
When a Trigger Meets a Process Flow Comin’ Through the Rye
This is not general reading, despite my attempted literary reference in the title. This is a solution to a specific problem that I encountered, and that I’ll document here in case someone needs it later, since I failed to find the solution when *I* googled it. I had a process flow that was calling an Apex […]
Resources on Google AdWords and AdGrants
For years, Google has given qualifying nonprofits a $10,000 monthly allowance to use Google AdWords to market their organization and work. The grants were limited by the amount you were allowed to bid for your ad placements, which made it challenging to compete with actual paid advertisers, but also asked little of the organizations — […]
Little Nonprofit’s Adventures in Process Automation
Process automation is a prime example of how Salesforce gives admins a lot of control in an easy to master format. But, as with many things on a platform as vast as Salesforce, it can be hard to know where to start
Revamping the NPSP Email Acknowledgement Workflow Rule to Allow for Multiple Acknowledgement Email Templates
On this episode of Workflow Rule Makeovers, we’ll take the default NPSP workflow for sending the email acknowledgement and make it into a process builder process that allows you to set criteria for using different templates.