Summer 2022 arrived Jun 11 for us. As always, the first thing to do is head over to the release notes and find out what features must be turned on, what features must be configured, what features we ...
Spring 2022 Top Ten Candy for Power of Us License Holders
Spring 2022 release notes are out in preview form.
I looked through them for the things that all ...
Unpacking Winter 2021
Winter 2022 arrived! I can’t wait to check on the status of the “Top 10 Candy” list for organizations who have the Power ot Ten license grant like me. However, first I need to help avoid the buildup ...
Volunteer Job Impact Decision / New Features
We added a rich tech field on every Volunteer Job to hold a statement of what impact it has had.
Note that we are using our Volunteer Jobs for several different purposes: traditional volunteerism, ...
Spring 21 Release Decisions
Top Ten Features
Terry reviewed and published the most exciting updates in early January based on the preliminary release notes. Now he reviewed them on Feb 27 2021 and recorded any necessary maintenance decisions here ...
Auto Layout Flow — Don’t be Afraid
There is a new feature in Lightning Flows called Auto Layout. I’m a huge fan. When you create a new flow, I would always recommend selecting this. It means a much better experience building your ...
Technical Debt
Start the New Year Guilt Free
Technical debt is a concept in software development that reflect ‘s the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing and easy solution now instead of using ...
Using a Campaign to Manage a Newsletter
How I use a campaign to manage my newsletter subscribers. Note that an external email program is still required, such as Vertical Response.
I use Vertical Response but I manage my newsletter subscription within Salesforce. I use a campaign and automation to help me out! I’d love to have something fancier but “True to the Core” is actually pretty good!
Dealing with Limited Client Information
We often actually have anonymous donors and in-kind givers. We associate such actions with a contact with the first name “Anonymous” and the last name @Organization, where Organization is whatever affiliation they have or whenever location the action occurred.
We extended this idea of “fuzzy” information to our clients. We only know nicknames frequency. But the nicknames collide so we also ask a positive interest or passion. As we learn legal names and birth information, we record it and update it.
We had to implement a few fields and workflows to make his possible. You can read more about the solution here (You’ll have to request document access… I’ll move key features to this document if there is enough demand).
Automatic Email and Phone Preferences for NPSP
Three workflow rules that infer the value of the NPSP picklist called preferred email and set it. Saves time when moving or deleting email fields.
The NPSP is awesome in that it allows us to have cell phone, home phones, and office phones and emails for our contacts since it’s a B2C type of service. I like that. However, I disliked getting a warning when I saved contacts indicating that I had forgotten to set the preferred email or preferred phone. The worst is when I move the only email address from work to personal (or vice versa) and get a validation error that the preferred email is blank. So I decided to improve the intelligence.