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Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition

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Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

Salesforce CRM’s Winter ’17 release offers a host of new features for CRM designed to transform your sales and marketing requirements. With this comprehensive guide to implementing Salesforce CRM, administrators of all levels can easily acquire deep knowledge of the platform. The book begins by guiding you through setting up users and the security settings and then progresses to configuration, data management, and data analytics. We swiftly move on to the setting up of organization wide features that affect the look and feel of the application. Process automation and approval mechanisms are covered next, along with the functional areas of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Salesforce Chatter. This book details Salesforce CRM system administration in a practical way and is an invaluable reference for both new administrators and experienced professionals. At the end of the book, techniques to further enhance the system and improve the return on investment Salesforce mobile apps and mobile administration are covered, along with Salesforce Adoption Manager. Every chapter is complete with a section containing example questions of the type that you might encounter in the certification examination.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Session security levels


Session-level security settings are used for connected apps, reports, and dashboards. Here you can restrict access to these areas of functionality based on the level of security associated with the authentication (login) method for the user's current session. You can restrict access to connected apps, reports, and dashboards by setting the level of security associated with the user's current authentication (login) method; each login method has one of two security levels which is either Standard or High Assurance. Different authentication methods are assigned with the following security levels:

  • Username Password (Standard)

  • Delegated Authentication (Standard)

  • Activation (Standard)

  • Two-Factor Authentication (High Assurance)

  • Authentication Provider (Standard)

  • Lightning Login (Standard)

To change the security level associated with a login method navigate to Setup | Security Controls | Session Settings. Locate the Session Security Levels, select the login method and then click...