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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

Generating help pages for custom objects using Visualforce and a PDF document


In this recipe, we will step through the process of adding a custom PDF document for the purpose of showing help information. This help information will then be accessible from appropriate custom object records to provide for context-specific help information.

Getting ready

Create or retrieve a PDF document that contains the required help information. Here we have an example file that is called HelpText.pdf.

Upload the PDF document into Salesforce as a static resource by carrying out the following steps:

  1. Create or source a suitable PDF to be used to show help information.

  2. Navigate to the Static Resources setup page, by clicking along the following path: Your Name | Setup | Develop | Static Resources.

  3. Click on New.

  4. Enter the name of the static resource in the Name field. For this recipe, type the text CustomObjectHelpText.

  5. In the File uploader control, click on the Browse... button to select the document to upload...