🌈 Design For User Success: Add Interest through Color
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Let's be clear: For nonprofits Salesforce is "free."
It's free like a puppy. Not free like a beer.
If you work for a Nonprofit or Educational Organization you've come to the place to learn how to use Salesforce wisely, effectively, and cheaply.
Suggested tools and ideas to add visual interest to your Salesforce pages by taking color into consideration.
Michael Kolodner
- May 8
- 3 min
Band-Aid for New Cloud Reporting
I've built a workaround to allow fundraising reporting the Nonprofit Cloud otherwise doesn't support.
Michael Kolodner
- Apr 24
- 10 min
Extension Objects: There’s Nothing to Like
Extension Objects are the "on core" place to put fields that really belong on objects like accounts and contacts. They are a problem.
Michael Kolodner
- Jan 31
- 7 min
Email to someone not [yet] in Salesforce
How I solved the challenge of emailing someone that might not be in Salesforce and still relating that message to the right record.
Michael Kolodner
- Oct 25, 2023
- 10 min
Platform Events — My New Favorite Tool
An introduction to Platform Events and the cool things I've found to do with them.
Michael Kolodner
- Sep 13, 2023
- 1 min
Smiley Faces Form
A cool javascript update to a FormAssembly that my son helped figure out. Rate something 1 to 5 using emoji faces!
Michael Kolodner
- Aug 30, 2023
- 3 min
Free Things I Always Install: Unofficial SF
UnofficialSF is a treasure trove of flow extensions, code snippets, and more. There are some tools I always know I'll need and others I keep
Michael Kolodner
- Aug 16, 2023
- 1 min
Free Things I Always Install: DLRS
I always install DLRS into new orgs or existing ones. It's just a great tool that can solve so many needs!
Michael Kolodner
- Aug 2, 2023
- 2 min
Free Things I Always Install: Mopsy
Another free thing I always install: Mopsy. It improves upon the Today's Tasks component so your users see their To Do items.
Michael Kolodner
- Jul 19, 2023
- 3 min
Free Things I Always Install: Lightning Messaging Utility
Lightning Messaging Utility from Salesforce Labs is a handy tool for displaying messages that fit the Salesforce design pattern.
Michael Kolodner
- Jun 27, 2023
- 4 min
Apsona: The Golden App for Bulk Data Operations
Apsona for Salesforce is my favorite app. I consider it so important that I require my clients to install it.
Michael Kolodner
- Jun 14, 2023
- 3 min
Rollup to Relationship: A Cool DLRS Trick
A rollup summary trick to create a direct relationship to the last child record.
Michael Kolodner
- May 31, 2023
- 5 min
FormAssembly’s Price Increase
FormAssembly is raising their pricing. A lot. It still might be worthwhile for nonprofits.
Michael Kolodner
- Mar 29, 2023
- 6 min
Tools I Love: DLRS (the Declarative Lookup Rollup Summary tool)
DLRS, the Declarative Lookup Rollup Summary Tool, gives your rollup summary fields superpowers.
Michael Kolodner
- Mar 15, 2023
- 8 min
The TL;DR on the “New Nonprofit Cloud”
What does Salesforce.org's announcement of the new Nonprofit Cloud mean for you and your org?
Michael Kolodner
- Mar 14, 2023
- 4 min
Actual Free Stuff! Five No-cost Integration Users Announced at TDX23
Salesforce is making at least five free API-only integration users available to every org. Better security and auditability for less cost!
Michael Kolodner
- Mar 1, 2023
- 5 min
My First Einstein Prediction
What can you expect when you install Einstein for Nonprofits? And what will you learn about your data from the predictions?
Michael Kolodner
- Feb 1, 2023
- 3 min
One Form To Rule Them All
Use a single webform for many uses with URL parameters and save yourself time.
Michael Kolodner
- Jan 26, 2023
- 1 min
Sprinty's Community Resources
Announcing Sprinty’s Community Resources, an online library of Salesforce content for nonprofits.
Michael Kolodner
- Jan 18, 2023
- 4 min
i++ (or For Loops) in Flow
How to create a For Loop in Salesforce Flow. (Increment a counter like i++.)
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