Deploying Community changes using Change Sets

As a community manager, you need to be able to create and test changes to your community in a non-production environment. Salesforce offers a couple of different options and types of sandboxes (see Sandbox Types and Templates) that allow you to copy your production to a test environment (sandbox) for development and testing. You should not…

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Salesforce Challenges We all Share and What to do About Them

I have always enjoyed attending the Salesforce World Tour events over the years. Our sponsorships at these events has taken Apps Associates around the country to cities like Washington D.C., New York, and Boston giving me and my colleagues opportunities to have productive face-to-face discussions with people just as passionate about Salesforce as us.

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6 Easy Ways to Keep Your Salesforce Database Cleaner

Dirty data is the culprit of all sorts of issues including declined system performance, false reporting and negative customer service engagements. We all know that cleaning your data is vitally important, however it is also about as fun as doing laundry. (My apologies, if you think doing laundry is fun!) However, there are some easy…

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