Friday 15 December 2017

Santa Force is Coming to Town

Santa Force is Coming to Town

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Introduction

This post comes all the way from Lapland, from the workshop of Santa Force. a long time Salesforce user. This Salesforce instance has received some enhancements to help with the unique problems of this unique non-profit, which we’ll take a closer look at.

Customisations

There are a few additional fields on user, which don’t necessarily make a lot of sense when viewed in isolation:

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However, they are vital for a formula field :

 

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So as you can see, you’d better watch out, not pout and not cry. This might seem an odd requirement, but the help text tells you why:

 

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On to Santa Force now, he’s making a list view. The elves created one a few days ago, but there’s some issues with it - the name doesn’t look right and there’s a few fields missing.

 

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Santa Force clones the list view, renames it and adds the required fields:

 

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This is much better - he’s making a list view, he’s checked it twice and can now see who has been naughty or nice.

 

There’s also a process builder that works off another custom field on the contact record - a checkbox field labelled Asleep?

 

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So Santa Force knows if you are sleeping, and knows if you are awake, because it is posted to his chatter feed:

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Finally, there’s one more field on contact - Goodness.  Santa Force can look at this field and determine if you’ve been good or bad - there’s also some useful help text that will guide a contact’s behaviour if they view this though the community.

 

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Why?

The key question is what is all this information being gathered for? Checking the calendar, we can see that it’s for an event scheduled for 24th December:

 

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As you can see, Santa Force is Coming to Town!

Happy Christmas everyone and thanks for reading the Bob Buzzard Blog.

 

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