Overview
The course first teaches attendees about the Salesforce structure and terminology, as well as how to set up and manage users, login security, troubleshooting, object and record access, and more. Attendees then take their skills to the next level with essential system administrator skills, including customizing Salesforce, creating custom objects and report types, using sandboxes, and leveraging all the automation tools in Salesforce.
Objectives
At the end of Salesforce Administrator training course, participants will be able to
- Navigate in Salesforce
- Understand Salesforce terminology
- Understand the Salesforce data model and object schema
- Configure global settings – company profile, UI, calendar, and activity settings
- Demonstrate login troubleshooting
- Be able to restrict logins
- Configure profiles and new users
- Understand object & record access
- Understand role hierarchy
- Create and configure a data access model
- Configure custom fields and understand field level security
- Understand page layouts, record types, and business processes
- Create reports and dashboards
- Understand and use lookup and master-detail fields
- Create Workflows, Processes, Flows, Queues, Assignment Rules, Auto-Response Rules, Escalation Rules
- Configure Web to Case and Email to Case
- Configure and Customize a full business scenario
- Understand Sandboxes, metadata and Change Sets
- Use the AppExchange
- Be prepared for the System Admin certification exam
Prerequisites
Participants should have a working knowledge of Excel and be proficient using a browser. No other prerequisites are required.
Course Outline
- Logging into Salesforce
- Using search
- Parent-child object relationships
- Configuring personal settings
- Understanding apps and tabs
- Using the schema builder
- Company profile
- UI
- Calendar
- Chatter
- Setting up activities
- Using list views
- Managing users
- Managing profiles
- Managing licenses
- Understanding login security
- Troubleshooting login issues
- Setting object access
- Setting record access
- Creating a role hierarchy
- Record access exceptions
- Managing field level security
- Design and configure a data access model
- Customize standard objects and fields
- Creating custom objects and custom fields
- Creating formula fields
- Page layouts
- Record types
- Business processes
- Design and configure a business scenario
- Required fields
- Matching and duplicate rules
- Validation rules
- History tracking
- Import using the data import wizard
- Import using dataloader.io
- Folders and security
- Create reports using standard report types
- Create reports using custom report types
- Create dashboards
- Sending emails with tracking code
- Mass emailing
- Understand Chatter
- Understand use cases for Chatter
- Configure Chatter invites
- Understand the capabilities
- Know how to configure
- Understand Salesforce
- Use Quick Actions
- Recognizing the need to create a custom object
- Lookup or master-detail?
- Rollup summary fields
- Custom Report Types
- Custom Summary Formulas
- Bucket Fields
- Queues
- Assignment Rules
- Auto-Response Rules
- Escalation Rules
- Web to Case
- Email to Case
- Support Settings
- Types of Sandboxes
- Creating and Refreshing Sandboxes
- Metadata vs. Data
- Change Sets
- Using the AppExchange
- How to assess apps
- Unmanaged and Managed Apps
- Understanding declarative limits
- Evaluate customization priorities
- Typical coding scenarios