How to Share Content with Other Users in Salesforce

Dashboard Share with other users in Salesforce Classic

In Salesforce, we set the Organization-Wide Defaults (OWD) to Private to control record-level security. This means users can see only the records and files they own or that are shared with them. By default, other users do not have access. Sometimes, there is a business requirement to grant access to a specific record or file to users … Read more >>>

Standard and Custom Fiscal Year in Salesforce

Set up Standard Fiscal Year in Salesforce

Salesforce provides the Standard Fiscal Year feature, which runs from January to December. Suppose the company wants to customize its Fiscal Year because its financial cycle does not follow the standard January-to-December calendar. In that case, Salesforce provides the option to use a Custom Fiscal Year. While working as a system admin for a Salesforce consulting company, … Read more >>>

How to Add Multiple Columns to Screen Flows in Salesforce

Create a Screen with Two Columns in Salesforce Flow

While working as a Salesforce Admin, our client wanted a form that collects customer information during record creation. They asked us to keep the form simple because sales users found long forms difficult to complete. Initially, when I created the form using Screen Flow, all input fields were displayed in a single column, which looked … Read more >>>

Auto-Generate Field Summaries in Salesforce Agentforce

Auto-Generate Field Summaries in Salesforce Agentforce

In Agentforce, we have various types of prompt templates that can be invoked from AI Agent, Apex, Flows, or record pages in Salesforce. For example, I created a Field Generation Prompt Template on the Account object that summarizes a particular account and displays it in a custom field named Account Summary__c. Now this prompt template … Read more >>>

Create Chatter Streams in Salesforce for Better Collaboration

Chatter Streams in Salesforce Lightning

While working as a Salesforce Admin, the sales manager wants the sales team to stay updated on important Account and Opportunity changes without having to open each record individually. To solve this, I create Chatter Streams that automatically show updates when an Opportunity stage changes, a comment is added on an Account, or a sales … Read more >>>

LEN() Function in Salesforce | Calculate Length of Text

LEN() Function in Salesforce

The client wanted all mobile numbers entered in Salesforce to be exactly 10 digits. They need this validation to ensure accurate communication with their customers. Any number shorter or longer than 10 digits should trigger an error message and prevent the record from being saved. As a Salesforce Admin, I used the LEN() function in … Read more >>>

How to Whitelist IP Addresses in Salesforce

Salesforce Whitelist IP address in Classic

While working as a Salesforce Admin, the client asked me to restrict access to Salesforce for security reasons. The client wanted users to log in only from the company office network and block access from home or public Wi-Fi. To meet this requirement, I whitelisted the office IP addresses in Salesforce using trusted IP ranges. … Read more >>>

IMAGE() Function in Salesforce [Use Cases, Syntax & Examples]

How to add image in the formula field in Salesforce

While working as a Salesforce admin, recently, I got a client requirement to automatically display the company logo on the account record as soon as a new account is created or an updated account name. The client did not want users to upload logos manually. Instead, they wanted Salesforce to show the correct logo based …