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Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook

By : Paul Goodey, Paul Goodey GP
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Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook

By: Paul Goodey, Paul Goodey GP

Overview of this book

Salesforce CRM is a market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) application that is accessed over the Internet. It is a proven system which helps to manage large volumes of information across an organization and also improves communication between departments for exceptional customer service. The CRM application is available for the management of sales projections and orders, marketing plans, knowledge management, service and support, partner relationships, and data analytics. The application greatly enhances a company's sales performance, improves customer satisfaction, and provides a robust customer relationship management system for an organization. For optimum performance of the system, there are a lot of things for you as the Salesforce administrator to know and tackle, but there isn't a single book which focuses on the administrative aspect of Salesforce CRM. "Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook" enables you to instantly extend and unleash the power of Salesforce CRM. It provides clear, comprehensive instructions along with detailed screenshots and code. Whether you are looking for solutions to enhance the core features or are looking for ideas for advanced customization techniques, this book will provide you with immediate, practical, and exciting real-world recipes. This book provides practical, step-by-step instructions that cover the use of hidden features, advanced user interface techniques, solutions for process automation, and data and systems integration in detail. This book guides you through interesting topics spanning a variety of functional areas. Recipes are provided that cover data quality and automation, approval and workflow processing, solutions to increase productivity, and the integration of Salesforce CRM with external tools and applications, such as Google and Microsoft Outlook. "Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook' provides practical, step-by-step instructions to deliver enhanced functionality and extend the power of Salesforce CRM.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Salesforce CRM Admin Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Stopping non-system administrators from changing account names with a validation rule


Often there is a need to restrict the updating of data from users within Salesforce CRM. A typical example is where account records are created according to an agreed process or naming convention, which requires verification by other users or systems within the organization.

In this recipe, we will construct a validation rule that prevents the changing of account name by users who are not logged in as system administrators.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to create a validation rule:

  1. Navigate to the account customization setup page, by going to Your Name | Setup | Customize | Accounts | Validation Rules.

  2. Click on New.

    Note

    Here, we are presented with the Account Validation Rule Edit page.

  3. Type Admins Only to Update Name in the Field Label textbox (upon clicking out of the textbox, the name changes to Admins_Only_to_Update_Name).

  4. Leave the Active checkbox ticked.

  5. Optionally, set the Description field...