The Silverline Blog
Industry insights, Salesforce news, and more
Industry insights, Salesforce news, and more
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Original Post By Salesforce.org | May 19, 2016 | Grants and Philanthropy , Nonprofit Earlier this Spring, Salesforce participated in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (or NOEW) produced by The Idea Village, a nonprofit organization focused first on rebuilding and second on driving positive change in New Orleans through entrepreneurship. NOEW 2016 was the largest ever...
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In my experience, sales folks can be like hungry and impatient sharks that never get full, no matter how much you feed them (also in my experience, most sales folks wouldn’t take offense to this, but rather be proud of any comparison to a predatory animal). They want their leads, they want “good” leads, and...
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When deleting, changing the API Name, or determining the purpose of a field, it can be necessary to find all the places that field is referenced. Most developers know how to find field references in code using their favorite IDE, but both developers and administrators benefit from being able to find field references in configuration...
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This is the first in a multi-part series talking about continuous delivery on Salesforce. This post will be focused on setting up a Continuous Integration process for the code portions (classes, triggers, components, pages, static resources) of the metadata and future posts will cover configuration, data, and bundling these together for seamless deploys. Large deployments,...
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Admins often manage Salesforce for their entire company, which means they’re responsible for everything from delivering critical projects and training team members to keeping data clean and assigning sales leads. The best admins are constantly learning about new technology, processes, and apps that can help everyone on the team perform better, and the innovative solutions...
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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....
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Silverline has seen an influx of projects where clients require a strong custom mobile presence. This has led us to start looking at new web technologies and programming languages to achieve this. One language that has stood out to our team is ReactJS. ReactJS is a language developed by Facebook that helps with creating and...
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Last year on #GivingTuesday, Salesforce.org, along with Atlassian, Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado and Rally, launched Pledge 1%: a movement to encourage high-growth emerging companies around the world to build philanthropy into their business. We’ve had an unbelievable year — hundreds companies have already pledged 1% of their equity, profit, product or employee time back into the community — and we’re...
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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...
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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...