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App of the Week – Lightning Image Slider

App of the Week – Lightning Image Slider

Imagine you have a series of image attachments and files on a lead or account page. With standard functionality, users have to click on each image separately to view, and then close them down to see another. The Lightning Image Slider does away with that and makes it easy to scroll through each image, without the slow procedure of clicking onto each item. You can also set it up for autoplay, and adjust how long each slide stays on the screen.

The Lightning Image Slider lets an admin user to quickly setup a image carousel on Lightning Experience that displays the image attachments of a sObject record. This component can also be leveraged by developers to embed within another Lightning Component/Application as well as Visualforce pages.

Check it out here!

 

Tip of the Week – Use Images and Icons for a Better Salesforce Org

Tip of the Week – Use Images and Icons for a Better Salesforce Org

A well-placed image or icon can do wonders to liven up your Salesforce org. Not only are graphics eye-catching and can make your work experience more pleasant, but they can often communicate information quicker and more effectively than text. For example, the bar images below give a handy visual indicator to represent a percentage out of 100.

While these dynamic bar graphs do take a bit of coding know-how, adding simple visual enhancements into your org is pretty quick and painless. The team at Salesforce Ben has put together a step by step guide on how to customize your org with icons and images. Take a peek at the link below:

Images in Salesforce Formula Fields

 

– Ryan and the CloudMyBiz Team

App of the Week – Enhanced Salesforce Experience with Graphics Pack

App of the Week – Enhanced Salesforce Experience with Graphics Pack

An image is worth a thousand words, or so the saying goes. If that is true, this app is basically priceless. With hundreds of new icons and images that can be inserted into tabs, formulas, and visualforce pages, you can really enhance the Salesforce experience for both your clients and your team. Say what you need with just a single image.

“Graphics Pack contains hundreds of images / icons that can be used in Salesforce applications for tabs, image formulas, and Visualforce pages”

Check it out here!

App of the Week – Sharing photos in Salesforce is easy with Magpie

App of the Week – Sharing photos in Salesforce is easy with Magpie

Magpie

What the heck is Chatter anyway!? I get this question all the time. As I’ve said before, I tend to refer to Chatter as Facebook meets Twitter meets Salesforce. Chatter is the social environment where your team gathers to collaborate from across the office and around the world, and if you’re a social media junkie (or take a little time to learn the basics), it’s easy and intuitive. Unless you need to post a bunch of pictures at once – then you need to sit there and post them one at a time. Wouldn’t it be great if posting pictures in Chatter was as quick and easy as Facebook? Well, the free Magpie app makes it that simple!

Magpie allows you to create albums and upload images, photos, screenshots to them. The album can then be shared to your profile easily.

Check out the free Magpie – Photo sharing app today and bring your Chatter experience to the next level today!

App of the Week – Put a face to your contacts with Picture Uploader in Salesforce

App of the Week – Put a face to your contacts with Picture Uploader in Salesforce

Picture Uploader

In today’s global market, phone calls and web conferences have all but replaced face-to-face meetings in many industries. With so much communication nonverbal in nature (I’ll let the experts talk to exact numbers), this can be a challenge.  But what’s more, we frequently will never see the face of the person we’re talking to, even after dozens of meetings. Knowing the faces of the people you’re interacting with on a day to day basis helps personalize every conversation and brings some humanity back into those disembodied voices floating through your phone or speakers. Imagine if you had a way to put a face to every Contact in Salesforce and show it nicely right on the detail page. Salesforce offers their Social Accounts and Contacts, which is a great feature if your clients are connected, but if you need a tool to supplement that (or have a specific picture you want to use), you might want to check out the cool Picture Uploader from our friends at Salesforce Labs.

The Picture Uploader utility allows a user to upload a picture to a contact record, visible directly from the contact page. This picture is stored as an attachment and will not be deleted as newer pictures are uploaded.

Check out the Picture Uploader in Salesforce and start uploading photos to your Contacts today!