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Silverline Success Story: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming

Client News Sep 26, 2017 By Craig McKeon

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming (BCBSWY) provides health insurance products and related services to more than 100,000 members in Wyoming. The company’s insurance products include managed care programs for businesses and individuals, as well as supplemental dental, vision, prescription drug, and Medicare coverage. BCBSWY provides health insurance to Wyoming’s Kid Care program, which offers coverage to children from low-income families. It also provides affordable coverage options through its Caring Foundation. In addition, the company…
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Our Top 10 Lightning Features

Lightning Jun 7, 2017 By Jill Harrison

We here at Silverline have been struck by Lightning. It’s all about the Salesforce Lightning Experience all day, every day! One of the most frequently asked questions we hear from our clients is “Which are the top Lightning Experience features we should roll out?” After dozens and dozens of projects, we thought it was high time to share some insight about which features our clients are loving – and why! Be sure to check out the…
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Lightning Component: Simple Agenda View

Lightning Mar 20, 2017 By Kathleen Ferrie

By now, I hope you’ve installed at least one of our free Lighting Components (Jumbotron, Banner, and RSVP) and if not, what are you waiting for? Maybe this last component, our last in this series: Simple Agenda View. This Simple Agenda View component, available to any Salesforce user who has enabled the Lightning Experience, delivers the ability to create a custom calendar, in agenda view, on any record page. With Simple Agenda View you can: …
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Lightning Component: Jumbotron

Lightning Mar 6, 2017 By Kathleen Ferrie

Jill and I recently shared our favorite new Lightning Components, RSVP and Banner, and I’m excited to share yet another of Silverline’s Lightning Components available for free on the Salesforce AppExchange, Jumbotron! This Jumbotron component, available to any Salesforce user who has enabled the Lightning Experience, delivers the ability to display customizable content on any Lightning page. Above you’ll see customize Jumbotron content on the right side of the page. With Jumbotron you can link your…
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Salesforce Lightning Components: Banner

Lightning Feb 15, 2017 By Jill Harrison

Hello again, Admins and App Builders! Two weeks ago, Kathleen shared one of our favorite new Lightning Components which can help you with event management and registering people for events. Have you checked out RSVP yet? Be sure to share your feedback if you have! Today, we’re going to check out another free component we’ve released to help you build beautiful Lightning apps – it’s called Banner. As we here at Silverline build out new Lightning Apps, our top priority is always…
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Salesforce Lightning Components: RSVP

Lightning Feb 1, 2017 By Kathleen Ferrie

In my last post, I talked about some great reasons on how you should use Salesforce Lightning Components. Our Foundry team has been hard at work on some awesome components and I’m excited to share one of my favorites with you. RSVP is a free Lightning component that allows users to register for events on any record page. RSVP does the hard work for you by keeping track of who registered for an event, the…
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4 Reasons You Should Use Salesforce Lightning Components

Lightning Jan 13, 2017 By Kathleen Ferrie

Salesforce has made a huge investment into the new Lightning platform and we believe it represents innovative, next-generation opportunities for our clients. Lightning includes the Lightning Component Framework and some exciting tools for developers; using these technologies you can seamlessly customize and easily deploy new apps to mobile devices running Salesforce1. Why use Lightning Components? Lightning Components give you a client-server framework that accelerates development, as well as app performance, and is ideal for use…
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How to use Salesforce Lightning Connect to show a related list of external data

Lightning Dec 14, 2015 By Gean Martinez

Here is a hands-on guide to using Salesforce Lightning Connect to show a related list of external data for a given account. Let us first configure the External Data Source. First, go to Setup -> Manage External Data Sources -> Click New External Data Source. Here let’s choose the name and type of our data source. I will create an external data source called Third Party System of type Lightning Connect: OData 2.0. For Parameters, I…
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When to use Salesforce Lightning Connect

Lightning Nov 16, 2015 By Gean Martinez

You have heard about Salesforce Lightning Connect. Now you want to know when to use it, or if it is even applicable in your implementation. Just because it’s out there doesn’t mean you have to use it. You should consider using Lightning Connect if it will save you time, money, or resources. Our client, for example, is implementing Salesforce and wants to surface data to its 200 users from a 3rd party system. This data is to be…
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3 Steps to Becoming Salesforce Lightning Ready

Lightning Oct 26, 2015 By Kathleen Ferrie

You’ve heard so much about Lightning, but it’s so much more than a refreshed user interface. Lightning is a completely new Salesforce with 150+ new features, designed to maximize user productivity, complete with analytics and in-line intelligence that will drive transformation across your organization. But will any of your current configuration or custom development conflict with the new UI? Silverline can help! Before we develop, customize, and implement the new Lightning platform and modules for…
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