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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)
21
Assessment
22
Other Books You May Enjoy
23
Index

Configuring Salesforce Mobile using a QuickStart

In further extending functionality, Salesforce provides a ‘QuickStart’ to help you set up the mobile app for your users. QuickStart includes a few intuitive configuration sections. So, let’s take a look at how to navigate to these sections.

Business use case

As the admin for XYZ Widgets, your users have requested the ability to use Salesforce on their mobile devices. You need to get this up and running quickly for a quick win. This should be very straightforward since Salesforce provides a mobile app out of the box. You go to the mobile app QuickStart to set this up.

Mobile app QuickStart

First, we navigate to the Setup section of Salesforce, as shown in the following screenshot:

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Figure 15.16: Finding the QuickStart on the Setup page

Once in the Setup section, click on New Salesforce Mobile App QuickStart, as you can see in the preceding screenshot.

There are five sections available...