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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)
21
Assessment
22
Other Books You May Enjoy
23
Index

Understanding the SETTINGS section

The last of the three main sections of the Setup home tab is SETTINGS. This section contains various settings that were not captured in the ADMINISTRATION and PLATFORM TOOLS sections. The following screenshot shows you where you can find the SETTINGS section:

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Figure 9.11: The SETTINGS section of the Home tab

Let’s take a look at what settings are included here.

Company Settings

The Company Settings subsection includes settings related to the organization. Some of the use cases for this section include finding your org ID for a Salesforce case, setting up your fiscal year, and setting up company holidays. Let’s look at all of these settings:

  • Business Hours: This setting allows you to set your organization’s business hours.
  • Calendar Settings: This item allows you to add public calendars and resources for your company.
  • Company Information: This contains all of your basic company settings...