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Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468963
Pages 644 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Salesforce CRM - The Definitive Admin Handbook - Fourth Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Setting up Salesforce CRM and the Company Profile 2. Managing Users and Controlling System Access 3. Configuring Objects and Apps 4. Securing Access to Data and Data Validation 5. Managing Data in Salesforce CRM 6. Generating Data Analytics with Reports and Dashboards 7. Implementing Business Processes in Salesforce CRM 8. Introducing Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and the Collaborative Features of Salesforce CRM 9. Extending and Enhancing Salesforce CRM 10. Administrating the Mobile Features of Salesforce CRM 11. Studying for the Certified Administrator Exam

Custom field governance


Controlling the creation of fields is necessary to avoid adding unnecessary new fields in Salesforce. Without appropriate field creation governance, there is a risk of producing an application with a complex data structure that provides a poor user experience.

This issue can often be observed due to the ease of creating new custom fields. However, there are other causes such as:

  • Configuring spontaneous responses to end-user field creation requests without gathering full requirements

  • Lack of specification or understanding of reporting requirements for field usage

  • Creation of fields that are too specific for common uses, thus driving the need to create ever more fields

  • Lack of knowledge or awareness of existing fields that could be used rather than creating new ones

As the number of unnecessary fields increases, users will find it ever more difficult to enter the correct data into the correct fields. Therefore, the amount of entered data is reduced along with user's satisfaction...

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