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Salesforce Essentials for Administrators

Salesforce Essentials for Administrators

By : Mohit Shrivatsava
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Salesforce Essentials for Administrators

Salesforce Essentials for Administrators

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By: Mohit Shrivatsava
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Overview of this book

This book is targeted at expert administrators or professionals who are new to Salesforce and want to learn the various features supported by the platform in a short space of time. The book can also be used by professionals preparing for Developer and Administrator certification exams from Salesforce.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. User Management and User Profiling
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1. User Management and User Profiling
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License management
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User management
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Profile management
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Delegated administration
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Salesforce A
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Summary
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2. Configuring Salesforce
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2. Configuring Salesforce
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Data modeling
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Workflows
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E-mail templates
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Approval process
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Page layouts
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Record types
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Formulae
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Validation rules
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3. Reports and Dashboards
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3. Reports and Dashboards
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The report builder
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Dashboards
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Procedure for conditional highlighting
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Analytic snapshots
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Report types
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Folders
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Summary
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4. Record-level Access, Security, and Audit Features
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4. Record-level Access, Security, and Audit Features
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Organization-wide sharing defaults
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Sharing rules and manual sharing
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Account team, opportunity team, and case team
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Audit features
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Folder security
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5. Session Management, Data Loader, and Data Loading Best Practices
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5. Session Management, Data Loader, and Data Loading Best Practices
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Password policies
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Session settings
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Session management
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Data loader
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Importance of VLOOKUP and external IDs
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6. Troubleshooting Common Problems
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6. Troubleshooting Common Problems
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Problem statement 1
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Problem statement 2
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Problem statement 3
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Problem statement 4
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Problem statement 5
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Problem statement 6
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Problem statement 7
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Problem statement 8
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Problem statement 9
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Problem statement 10
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Problem statement 11
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Problem statement 12
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7. An Overview of Sales and Service Cloud
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7. An Overview of Sales and Service Cloud
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A sales cycle
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Territory management
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Forecasting
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The service cloud
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Entitlement management
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Knowledge management
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Content management
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Live agent
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Customer and partner community
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Ideas and chatter answers
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The SFA maturity model
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Index
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Index

Knowledge management

The business use case for using this module is as follows:

  1. Your company has a self-service portal and you want to provide a set of content for your end users so that they can refer to it and solve their problem or know more about the products that the company offers.

  2. You want to provide content for your sales or service representatives, which can help them in educating them about FAQs, solutions to known problems, and so on.

The greatest feature of knowledge management is the ability to search. Knowledge can be multilingual. One can set up an approval flow for knowledge. Knowledge in Salesforce follows a cycle from the draft state to the published state. The entire cycle can be managed to improve the quality of the content.

Articles are first drafted and then sent for review to article managers. Once reviewed, these are published. Articles can be versioned, and one can vote and rate them. Articles can be archived as well.

As an admin, it's important to note that in order...

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