Author: David Schild
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Salesforce Custom Metadata Types: Manage App Configurations Without Code Changes
If you have ever deployed a Salesforce change only to realize the picklist values are still wrong in production, or you had to submit another deployment just to tweak a single setting, you are not alone. Most admins and developers have been there. What if you could decouple configuration from code entirely? What Are Custom…
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Salesforce Summer ’26: What to Expect and How to Prep
Summer ’26 doubles down on Agentforce, brings prompt versioning and the Agent Testing Framework, and adds Agentic Milestones for Service Cloud. Here’s what matters and how to prep.
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Agentforce in Production: Six Months of Lessons Learned
What actually breaks, helps, and surprises you when Agentforce moves from demo to production. Six months of operating real agents — condensed.
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Setting Up Sales Cloud Forecasting Without Losing Your Mind
Sales Cloud forecasting can either run quietly in the background or eat your sales ops team alive. The difference is in five setup decisions you make at the start.
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A Data Quality Framework for Salesforce Orgs
Bad data isn’t a one-time cleanup project — it’s a system. A simple framework for measuring, fixing, and keeping Salesforce data healthy.
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Stop Treating Sandboxes Like an Afterthought
Most orgs have sandboxes that drift, get mismatched, and quietly burn engineering hours. A sandbox strategy isn’t fancy — it’s the difference between safe deployments and Friday-night surprises.
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Is Salesforce Shield Worth It? A Practical Cost-Benefit Look
Salesforce Shield isn’t cheap. Whether it’s worth it comes down to which of the three components actually solves a problem your org has.
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Building Salesforce Dashboards Your Executives Will Actually Use
Most executive Salesforce dashboards get opened twice and abandoned. Here’s a layout, content, and review pattern that keeps them in the rotation.
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Flow vs. Apex: How to Decide Without Religious Wars
Flow or Apex? The honest answer is “it depends” — but on what? A practical decision framework for picking the right tool for the job.
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Permission Set Groups: A Practical Guide to Replacing Profiles
Salesforce is winding down Profiles. Here’s a practical, no-drama plan for moving to Permission Set Groups without breaking your org along the way.
