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Tip of the Week – Understanding Sandbox Types

Tip of the Week – Understanding Sandbox Types

Salesforce sandbox types

For just about every installation of Salesforce, a Sandbox will be used. What is a Sandbox? It is a copy of your organization in a separate environment that can be used for a variety of purposes (such as testing and training) without compromising the data and applications in your Salesforce.com production organization. However, the Sandbox is not a one-size-fits all sort of deal. In fact, there are 4 different Sandbox types and each of them have different levels of functions and features.

Developer Sandbox

A Developer Sandbox is the simplest and smallest Sandbox. Use this Sandbox for development and testing in an isolated environment. If using a Developer Pro Sandbox, a copy of the organization’s metadata is provided.

Developer Pro Sandbox

A Developer Pro Sandbox can handle larger data-sets than the Regular Developer Box. Use this one for more development and quality assurance tasks as well as integration testing or user training.

Partial Copy Sandbox

A Partial Copy Sandbox is primarily a testing environment. This Sandbox will carry over some records from your production environment, but not all. Tasks such as user acceptance, integration testing, and quality assurance are the best uses here.

Full Sandbox

A Full Sandbox gives you everything. Full sandboxes are a complete replica of your production org, including all data, such as object records and attachments, and metadata. Only Full sandboxes support performance testing, load testing, and staging. As the largest Sandbox, this one is not recommended for development, but rather full scale testing and QA. While using a Full Sandbox it is important to use a sandbox template, so it only contains the records that you require for testing, as well as other tasks.

These 4 different Sandbox types, when understood and used according to their strengths, give organizations the flexibility to develop and customize with ease.

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-Ryan and the Salesforce Guys

App of the Week – Salesforce Labs Solutions Guide

App of the Week – Salesforce Labs Solutions Guide

If you regularly browse the Salesforce AppExchange to see the latest and greatest applications and functionalities available out there, like we do here at CloudMyBiz, then you will most likely have run across the Salesforce Labs Solutions once or twice. The Labs Solutions are add on apps, created by Salesforce themselves. They provide powerful functionality, and act as both a testing ground for improvements Salesforce are considering adding to the base package of their platform, as well as giving user some powerful functionality that can boost their org.s right away, for free

Well there are quite a few of these Labs Solutions available, and as part of the 2020 rollout, Salesforce has put together a handy guide to their Labs Solutions.

 

Check it out here!

 

App of the Week – Round Robin Assigner

App of the Week – Round Robin Assigner

Round robin assignment is nothing new, and there are plenty of apps out there that either feature assignments, or are devoted specifically to them. However, this is the only one that comes directly from Salesforce. Built by Salesforce Labs, the Round Robin Assigner can take any object and assign it in order, to your group. Perfect for lead and case assignment, or any other object that you need to be handled.

With the Round Robin Assigner, from Process Builder or Flows, assign any object sequentially and evenly to members of a public group

Check it out here!

 

App of the Week – Easily Edit Opportunities Using Google Sheets

App of the Week – Easily Edit Opportunities Using Google Sheets

Do you use Salesforce? Do you use Google Sheets? If so this product is for you. Just call our toll free-number now and and for only 3 easy payments of $39.95…

Just kidding. This app of the week is totally free, and really easy to use. By integrating Salesforce and Google sheets, you can now link your Opportunity lists and edit them quickly and easily in Sheets. Boost productivity and make data editing smoother than ever.

Easily open your Salesforce opportunity list views in Google Sheets were you can manipulate the data using technology you know and love with Google Sheets. Changes are synced with Salesforce instantly.

Check it out here!

-Ryan and the Salesforce Guys

 

App of the Week – Quickly validate phone numbers in Salesforce with RingsTrue

App of the Week – Quickly validate phone numbers in Salesforce with RingsTrue

Salesforce is an amazing platform to facilitate and generate sales. With so many people and organizations connected, reaching out and connecting to potential business opportunities has never been easier. While having so much contact information at your fingertips is a fantastic resource, nothing can be more frustrating than getting stopped at the starting line by a badly formatted or incorrect phone number. RingsTrue can you help you avoid these faulty connections!

RingsTrue cleanses, formats and validates telephone numbers in Salesforce, all from one click of a button.

This app was released just last year but already has great reviews. Check it out here!


-Ryan and the Salesforce Guys