Salesforce Inspector

The most used Salesforce Chrome extension by Salesforce professionals has been upgraded to version 1.19 with many new/additional features, so get it here Salesforce Inspector reloaded.

A few noticeable changes:

Ability to search for inactive user

Direct link to open Fields, Record Types, and Object List

Ability to add Permission Set and Permission Set Group directly

A brand new UI for Data Export

Shortcuts

Search profile, permission set, settings, flow, etc.

Last update: 19-Jul-2023

Salesforce Inspector is one of the most popular productivity tools for Salesforce admin, to complement the Salesforce DevTools extension.

Productivity tools for Salesforce administrators and developers to inspect data and metadata directly from the Salesforce UI. Extension to add a metadata layout on top of the standard Salesforce UI to improve the productivity and joy of Salesforce configuration, development, and integration work.

What do you get after this extension is installed on your Chrome? A side menu with the arrow icon at the right side of the Salesforce screen.

1. Objects tab
Open the Salesforce inspector arrow will open a quick access menu, by default it will show the Objects tab. If the browser currently opens a record, the record will be automatically pulled, otherwise, you can search it manually:

• Record Id
• Id prefix (3 characters) or Object name

This is the Home page, that's why no record is displayed.

Open the panel from an Opportunity record

Click the object name (such as Opportunity in the above screenshot) will open the setup menu in Fields & Relationships for that object, but overwrite the record open, so it is not open into a new tab.

2. Show all data

This is related to (1) if this is related to an object, clicking the "Show all data" button will open the window (overwrite Salesforce page) with the default column: 

- Field API Name

- Label 

- Type (formula field show with * at the end) and click "All fields metadata" at the end of the field will show the complete formula for that field.

If this is related to a record, in addition to the columns in (1), Value will be added here by default.

You can easily find a label or value from this table from the search box.

This screen offers more functions than just search:

• Edit, click the Edit button at the top to edit all fields, or double-click a cell under Value on a certain row to edit a field, this includes fields that are not added to the page layout
• Delete, click the Delete button at the top, and the system will prompt you for confirmation to delete.
• Clone
• Export, this will open the Export query window, where the Id automatically added as the criteria
• View record in Salesforce
• Edit Page Layout, open the page layout used by the record opened
• Object setup (Lightning), this will open the setup menu in Fields & Relationships for that object.

The above features will only show based on the record/object and user access.

If you see at the further right, there is an arrow next to each row (field), click the arrow and select Field setup (Lightning), this will directly open the field detail in the setup menu.


3. Users tab

This is a fast shortcut when you need to check a user detail or to log in as that user (assume you have permission).

4. Data Export

This will open a SOQL query window, it supports field and objects auto-completion as you type, including and relationship query with the parent object. It also records your query history and you can manually save queries, so you can re-use your previous queries.

Hit the Export button to see the result, type in the filter box to filter the result further, then you can copy the result to Excel, CSV, and JSON

5. Data Import

It supports Insert, Update, Upsert, and Delete, then select the object, format, and paste the file to be imported. The system will try to match the mapping, but you can manually re-map it.

6. Org Limits

You can check the limits consumed for many items, but this does not include limits in an object or automation tool.

7. Download Metadata

You can select what type of metadata to download, I am not advised to Select all, because it will take a lot of time, so just select metadata items that you would like to download, such as report type.

Once completed, simply download the zip file and extract it.

8. Setup Home

Click this menu, simply to open the Setup menu, and that's all.

Type: Google Chrome extension

Paid/Free: Free

Publisher: Søren Krabbe

Installation: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/salesforce-inspector/aodjmnfhjibkcdimpodiifdjnnncaafh?hl=en

Version: 1.12


Blog last updated: 9 Jan 2022