Basati Activities Tab

By default Salesforce do not have Activity tab (Event & Task), we have blog about this with the workarounds here Salesforce: Activities Tab and View (Event or Task).

Another workaround is by installing an app from AppExchange called Basati Activities Tab - your command center for all tasks, events, and delegated task, with this app you can:

• One centralized location for all Tasks and Events in a list view.
• Manage from a list: edit and close Activities in one spot.
• Create new Task and Event from the tab.
• Sort in any columns and paging.

Type: AppExchange (Managed Package)

Paid/Free: Free

Publisher: Basati

Installation: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000009iGxwEAE

Version: 3.1.0

Blog last updated: 29 Feb 2016

Salesforce Navigator

This extension helps you get to any Salesforce.com page quickly. Just type in what you need to do.

• All objects list views and create new pages are available (even for objects that don't have tabs). Type in "List " or "New ".
• All setup links are available - type in "Setup" to see all. For example, if you want to get to the Account fields setup, type in "Account Fields". Or any custom object setup page, type "setup"

Once this extension added and enabled, from any Salesforce.com website, hit shortcut keys (by default is Ctrl+Shift+Space) to get this Navigator textbox. 

When this extension enabled, you will notice below icon in your Google Chrome. 

Type: Google Chrome extension

Paid/Free: Free

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/salesforce-navigator/ecjmdlggbilopfkkhggmgebbmbiklcdo

Version: 0.8.1

Blog last updated: 28 Feb 2016

Quote of the Day!

Quote of the Day! (aka Motivational Quotes) - Motivational Quotes & Inspirational Words from World Leaders - Keep your teams motivated with inspirational words from world leaders.

• Inspirational Quotes updated every day to keep your Teams inspired
• “Quote of the Day” Chatter Group that all Users can join
• Daily posts in Chatter Feeds and Daily Digests

Motivate your teams with inspirational words from world leaders. Automatically refreshed each day on the Home page and through Chatter with full “commenting”, “sharing” and “like” functionality.

Features include:

• Inspirational Quotes updated every day to keep your Teams inspired
• “Quote of the Day” Chatter Group that all Users can join
• Daily posts in Chatter Feeds and Daily Digests
• Free of charge and no hidden extras!
• Available for Group, Professional, Enterprise & Unlimited Edition Users

Type: AppExchange (Managed Package)

Paid/Free: Free

Publisher: MintCRM

Installation: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N3000000B3gIWEAZ


Version: 1.11
Blog last updated: 28 Feb 2016

Role Tree

Since this new blog announced last week, many blogs related to using Google Chrome extension has been shared, from Boostr for Salesforce to Salesforce.com Enhanced Formula Editor, these extensions will help us as Salesforce Admin in our daily job. So, this blog would be the 1st blog sharing about AppExchange product.

Role Tree (aka Knowledge Tree for Roles) - Natural and intuitive way to visualize your role hierarchy and users - help us to visualize our role hierarchy setup with users count in Salesforce. Role hierarchy setup maybe not exactly the same with the corporate org chart, but in many cases, it should be as closed as possible.

Once you have this app installed, you will find a new tab called Role Tree, you may need to click "+" tab to find it.

If your org only have a few role hierarchies, you maybe do not need this app, but if you have hundreds of role hierarchies as I have, this tool will help.

Features in Role Tree:

• Drill down by Role (by default it will show all roles)
• After drill down to a certain role, you can show all users from those role and below
• Open the role hierarchy (you can use right-click)
• View users for each role (from gear icon and right click)
• Assign users for each role (from gear icon and right click)
• Edit role (from gear icon and right click)
• Role without users will be shown in orange color
• Print Preview

Type: Private AppExchange (see description below) (Managed Package)

What does it mean when an AppExchange app is listed as private?
This warning usually means that the partner who develops this application has not started or failed to pass the security review. During the app installation, there's a warning displayed that reads like the following..."Salesforce Inc. is not the provider of this application and has not conducted any review of it. Please click here to understand what this means with respect to security and trust". Private listings that were delisted are usually due to problems with their periodic security review.

Paid/Free: Free

Publisher: The Cloud Corporation

Installation: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000057lEFEAY


Version: 1.32
Blog last updated: 26 Feb 2016

Salesforce.com Enhanced Formula Editor

Description
Enhances the formula editor text areas to have syntax highlighting, tabbing, parenthesis matching, and find and replace. When you visit a formula edit page it will automatically enhance the formula text area with the Edit Area code editor.

Editor Features Include:
- Line Numbering
- Search and Replace
- Full screen feature
- Undo and Redo
- Font size selection
- Syntax highlighting
- Tabbing (tab and shift-tab)
- Parenthesis matching
- No code wrapping

A new button is created named "Load Field Details" that loads details about the fields found in the formula. Field Details Include:
- Field type
- How many times it is used
- Formula field compile sizes
- Field edit links
- Field record values
- Field Sub Details (shown by clicking the expand arrow)
  - Object Name
  - Field Label
  - Field Help Text
  - For picklist fields, their picklist values
  - For formula fields, their formula

Formula fields found in the formula will load the enhanced editor for their own formulas, even providing the Load Field Details for themselves, which allows you to drill down through all formulas used in the parent formula.

When this extension enabled, you will notice below icon in your Google Chrome

Type: Google Chrome extension

Paid/Free: Free

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/salesforcecom-enhanced-fo/cnlnnpnjccjcmecojdhgpknalcahkhio?hl=en


Version: 1.4
Blog last updated: 28 Feb 2016

SimpleExtManager

Description
With this extension, you can configure, remove, enable, disable and disable all Google Chrome Extensions has been added to your Chrome browser in 1-click.

Type: Google Chrome extention

Paid/Free: Free

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simpleextmanager/kniehgiejgnnpgojkdhhjbgbllnfkfdk?hl=en


Version: 1.4.3.12
Blog last updated: 23 Feb 2016

Salesforce API Fieldnames

Description
This extension help you to get Salesforce field API name in the page layout. Once extension added, notice an icon display as __c at top right of Google Chrome.

Original:

Click the icon:

Source code is on github: https://github.com/dnakov/force-apiName

When this extension enabled, you will notice below icon in your Google Chrome

Type: Google Chrome extention

Paid/Free: Free

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/salesforce-api-fieldnames/oghajcjpbolpfoikoccffglngkphjgbo


Version: 0.1.1
Blog last updated: 28 Feb 2016

Salesforce.com Id Clipper

Description
This extension helps you get Salesforce.com Id from record and link to your clipboard.

1. URL
Once this extention added to your Chrome browser, when you login to Salesforce.com and open a record, such as: Account, or Contact or any record, notice a new scissor icon at right of the URL

Click the scissor icon to clip the Id to your clipboard. This will copy 15 characters Id of the record to your clipboard, and the icon will turn to green.

Click the icon again, it will turn to green with '18', this mean 18 characters Id has been copied into your clipboard.

Click the icon again, the icon will turn to green with 'Link', now you get "cleaned version" of the URL in your clipboard, clean version URL mean URL without parameters.

2. Link
You also can right click any record link in Salesforce.com record (including search result), this extension will do two actions:
1. Clip the Id (15 or 18 characters), just as you would from a record page
2. Get a clean record URL, dropping any parameters after the Id, like search position

Source code is on github:
https://github.com/gokubi/Salesforce-Id-Clipper-Chrome-Extension


Type: Google Chrome extention

Paid/Free: Free

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/salesforcecom-id-clipper/hfiffenhnefppjhloglpebefjlbhoeai


Version: 2.4
Blog last updated: 19 Feb 2016

Force.com LOGINS

Description
This extension manages login to your Salesforce.com with 2-click only.

Whether you are Salesforce admin, consultant, developer, product manager, super user, Trailhead fans, you probably have multiple Salesforce org: Production, Sandbox, Developer Edition org, Pre-Release org. You may store your multiple Salesforce username and password somewhere, from: notepad, excel file, google docs, 1password, evernote, etc. You need to open the file, and tired manually entering username and password every time to access to the org.

With Force.com LOGINS extension, it will help you with only 2-clicks to access to particular org. This extension does things:

• Keeps your Salesforce.com login account information (username, password, security token, and description).
• Login to Salesforce with new tab
• Login to Salesforce with new window
• Login to Salesforce with new incognito window
• Grouping your account for easy management
• Searches accounts by username to quickly access the account
• Password encryption
• Auto redirect to specific page upon successful login
• Export and import stored information in XML format

Sync accounts only for paid version.

Please refer to http://forcecomlogins.jimdo.com for more and latest details.


Type: Google Chrome extention

Paid/Free: Free (paid to manage > 10 accounts and more functionalities)

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forcecom-logins/ldjbglicecgnpkpdhpbogkednmmbebec


Version: 2.5.8
Blog last updated: 20 Feb 2016

ColumnCopy

Description
This extension is not really built just for Salesforce. However, as admin we work a lot in Salesforce to copy data and etc. So, we can use ColumnCopy extension to support our daily job in Salesforce, such as: copy field name.

Enables copying columns from tables. Column Copy enables copying HTML tables and HTML table columns.

Features:

• Copy table column by Alt + Click on any table cell. The column contents is now in your clipboard.
• Copy table by Shift + Alt + Click on any table cell. The table contents is now in your clipboard.
• Keyboard shortcuts are configurable.
• Right click in table and select ColumnCopy - Copy this column or Copy entire table

Type: Google Chrome extention

Paid/Free: Free

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/columncopy/lapbbfoohlcmlbdaakldmmallcbcbpjb


Version: 0.3.7
Blog last updated: 18 Feb 2016

Boostr for Salesforce

Description
Boost your admin and developer productivity on Salesforce.com with Boostr!
Current features include:

• Change Set: ability to search when adding items to change set
• Change Set: ability to filter by type when adding items to change set
• Change Set: Show All link to show all items for selected type within one page
• Field Set: displaying the API Name next to field names when editing a field set
• Setup Search: preventing the placeholder text from filling in the setup area sidebar
• Object/Field API Name: automatically remove the underscores in the Object/Field API Name when creating a new object or field.
• Setup Area Check All: when editing settings in the setup area, this will add a checkbox to the header row cells if there is a checkbox in that column. This will allow checking and unchecking all checkboxes in that column.
• Field History Tracking Counter: displays the total number of selected fields to track history for out of the total number Salesforce allows.

Some comparisons with and without Boostr:

without Boostr: no check all checkbox 

without Boostr

standard Change Set without Boostr

Change Set with Boostr enabled

standard Field Set

Field Set with Boostr

Field History Tracking Counter

When this extension enabled, you will notice below icon in your Google Chrome

Type: Google Chrome extension

Paid/Free: Free

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/boostr-for-salesforce/kegohbhdgaoaoanbpconbeleanhdodlo


Version: 0.1
Blog last updated: 22 Aug 2016