Jan 30, 2012 By Adam Torman

Permission Set Best Practice: You Should Try THIS Out at Home

Unlike profiles which have pre-created (or standard) examples like ‘Standard User’ or ‘System Administrator’, permission sets have no pre-created examples in an org. Below is a list of permission set examples you may want to create and why they are a good idea. As a general rule, as you remove... Read More

Customization, Platform

Dec 27, 2011 By Adam Torman

Permission Sets Best Practice: Lose Some Profile Weight

Profiles remain an important and necessary tool for the administrator. Beyond the requirement that every user is assigned to a single profile, certain user settings are available on profiles that are not available on permission sets.Previous blogs discussed the ability of... Read More

Customization, Platform

Dec 22, 2011 By Thomas Tobin

The iPad Mobile Dashboard app

At Dreamforce’11, one of the applications launched was an iPad app, to allow iPad users to view and refresh email dashboards. Marc Benioff tweeted the news out on the Sunday before Dreamforce’11: The app listing on the Apple App Store shows the list of features in the app: You can go to the... Read More

Featured, Platform

Dec 19, 2011 By Adam Torman

Permission Sets Best Practice: Mass Assign Permission Sets and other cool things using the API

The sObject API is an important part of permission sets, allowing you to perform tasks that you cannot perform through the permission set UIs. Some administrators may already be comfortable with the salesforce.com sObject API, but for those who are not, it is possible to make use of the... Read More

Customization, Platform

Dec 15, 2011 By Adam Torman

Permission Set Best Practice: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle

Consider the familiar scenario where a request is made to provide additional access rights to a particular salesforce.com user. With profiles alone, the administrator has three options: Add the new access rights directly to the user's profile. This has the side effect of also... Read More

Customization, Platform

Oct 20, 2011 By Mike Rosenbaum

SAP, meet Force.com: Creating a social enterprise by unlocking the SAP core

Our customers have spoken loud and clear. They want to build a social enterprise. They want to transform the way they collaborate, communicate and share information with both customers and employees. They want to shift IT from being a cost center to a catalyst for innovation and a driver of... Read More

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Permission Set Best Practice: You Should Try THIS Out at Home

Permission Sets Best Practice: Lose Some Profile Weight

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Permission Sets Best Practice: Mass Assign Permission Sets and other cool things using the API

Permission Set Best Practice: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle

SAP, meet Force.com: Creating a social enterprise by unlocking the SAP core

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Permission Set Best Practice: You Should Try THIS Out at Home

Permission Sets Best Practice: Lose Some Profile Weight

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Permission Sets Best Practice: Mass Assign Permission Sets and other cool things using the API

Permission Set Best Practice: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle

SAP, meet Force.com: Creating a social enterprise by unlocking the SAP core

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