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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

The second edition of Salesforce for Beginners provides you with a holistic introduction to the Salesforce platform. Whether you need help with the lead generation process, Salesforce user management and data security, or automating tasks with Salesforce Flow, this book is for you. Throughout this new edition you will find real-world business use cases to demonstrate concepts, screenshots of the latest UI displayed for screen navigation, and exercises at the end of every chapter to test your newfound knowledge. Working with the world’s leading CRM software, you will learn how to create activities, manage leads, develop your prospects and sales pipeline using opportunities and accounts, and understand how you can enhance marketing activities using campaigns. You will be able to take your administration skills to the next level as you approach real-world user management topics such as ownership skew. You will learn about data security on the Salesforce platform, with an introduction to the role hierarchy, system and user permissions, and much more. In this new edition you'll get to explore the popular automation tool Salesforce Flow. You’ll learn about the different flow types to employ, how to construct your first flow, and how to extensively test your flow. This will allow you to come away from reading this book with a real, functional flow for your business processes.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Assessment
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Other Books You May Enjoy
23
Index

Creating and using record types

Record types are the last piece of the puzzle. It is important to note that record types are not always needed; it depends on your business process. Record types are used when you need to show different page layouts, apply different processes, and/or need to show different picklist values based on a business use case. In this example, we will create two record types for the Certification object in order to show the correct picklist values in the Certification custom field. The record types will be Admin and Developer, and the goal is to show the admin certifications for Admin and the developer certifications for Developer. Let’s learn how to create these two record types and update the available picklist values.

First, navigate back to the Certification custom object, as shown in the following screenshot:

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Figure 13.20: Option to create a new record type from the Details section of an object

Click on Record Types (1) | New (2...