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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

Summary


In this chapter, we described the ways in which the data structure and user-interface features can be configured within Salesforce CRM.

We looked at how object and records information can be accessed. We also looked at the mechanisms for managing the methods that users use to view this information using views and page layouts.

We were shown how these record structures and user interfaces are controlled by the profile and the wider picture for the way configuration of these concepts are applied for users.

We discussed some techniques to help govern the way the configuration and creation of fields can be carried out and some common pitfalls to avoid.

Finally, we posed some questions to help clarify some of the key features of Salesforce CRM administration in the areas of Standard and Custom Objects.

In the next chapter, we will look in detail at the mechanisms for controlling access to data records and the features that provide data management and record sharing.