Tag: Admin Tip

Admin Commandment #9 An Awesome Admin should protect their org… for more reasons than you think!

Posted on by Mike

So here we are then with the penultimate post in the Admin Commandments series and this time we turn our attention to how us Awesome Admins should be protecting our org. Let’s start with a simple analogy: Security is an Inside Out job! What does this mean!?! Well, from the outside, by protecting our org Read more about Admin Commandment #9 An Awesome Admin should protect their org… for more reasons than you think![…]

Admin Commandment #4 – An Awesome Admin should always… know the value of clicks AND code!

Posted on by Chris

For Admin Commandment #4 we’re focusing on the age-old question of ‘how much code does an admin need to know?’, but with a twist. We believe an admin doesn’t need to know any code to be a good admin, but what’s certain is that they really need to know the value of code: where it’s Read more about Admin Commandment #4 – An Awesome Admin should always… know the value of clicks AND code![…]

Admin Commandment #3 – An Awesome Admin should always… backup their org’s data. Because Salesforce is (in some ways) no different to any other system you own!

Posted on by Mike

It’s time for Admin Commandment #3 and this time we move towards perhaps the most overlooked subject in the entire salesforce universe: backups. Or, more importantly, the lack of backups. If we asked a room of admins who backs up their org’s data regularly, we can bet not all admins would raise their hand and Read more about Admin Commandment #3 – An Awesome Admin should always… backup their org’s data. Because Salesforce is (in some ways) no different to any other system you own![…]

Admin Commandment #2 – An Awesome Admin should always… use the sandbox for making changes (with a few exceptions!)

Posted on by Mike

Here we go with our second Admin Commandment – an Awesome Admin should always use the sandbox, where available, for making and testing changes. Hopefully an obvious one, but you’d be surprised how tempting it is to go straight into production with something you might think is a ‘simple’ change. Luckily for us Salesforce have Read more about Admin Commandment #2 – An Awesome Admin should always… use the sandbox for making changes (with a few exceptions!)[…]

Admin Commandment #1 – An Awesome Admin should always… complete the description and help text fields!

Posted on by Mike

We have been thinking about this one for some time and after bringing a dose of commandments to Release Readiness, we feel it’s time to turn our attention to you Awesome Admins. Over the next 10 weeks we’ll be taking you through the Admin 10 Commandments, dealing with them one at a time. What is Read more about Admin Commandment #1 – An Awesome Admin should always… complete the description and help text fields![…]