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Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

By : Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer
Book Image

Salesforce for Beginners - Second Edition

By: Sharif Shaalan, Timothy Royer

Overview of this book

Salesforce is the world's leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, helping businesses connect with their constituents and partners. This book will give you a comprehensive introduction to managing sales, marketing, customer relationships, and overall administration for your organization. You'll learn how to configure and use Salesforce for maximum efficiency and return on investment This book will teach you how to create activities, manage leads, manage users, set up security, customize your UX, work with third-party applications, build flows, develop your prospects and sales pipeline using opportunities and accounts, understand how you can enhance marketing activities using campaigns and much more. Packed with real-world business use cases, this Salesforce book will show you how to analyze your business information accurately to make productive decisions for your business. As you advance, you'll learn how to build various reports and dashboards in Salesforce to derive valuable business insights. Finally, you'll explore tools such as Salesforce Flows, approval processes, and assignment rules to achieve business process automation and set out on the path to becoming a successful Salesforce administrator By the end of the book, you will know how to manipulate Salesforce to achieve your business goals
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Assessment
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Index

An Overview of Sharing and Visibility

Sharing and visibility are the cornerstones of data security in Salesforce. In the context of a business, the first decision that an organization makes is whether to have an open policy, which means all the users can see all the records. Depending on the nature of the business, this is not always possible and some records and/or fields need to be secure and only visible to certain people. If this is the case, the system needs to be set to completely private from the start; then, access is granted using several layers of administration features.

In this chapter, we will cover the following sharing and visibility security features in detail:

  • Using organization-wide defaults
  • Understanding the role hierarchy
  • Applying sharing rules
  • Setting team access
  • Setting profile access
  • Using permission sets
  • System and user permissions, implicit sharing, and Apex sharing

With the help of these topics,...