Build a simple Salesforce Community and give access to External Users
Still studying for the Sales Cloud Consultant certificate. Chapter 8 of the Study Guide is about Communities and Site Management, so why not dig deeper into this subject and build a Community!? Here we go!
The first part of this post is mainly about Communities, its License models
- Communities are branded online spaces that allows you to connect with your employees, customers and partners
- It is a way to leverage the information that your customer and your employees have to work together
- Example of a well-known Community: Salesforce Customer Success Community… I am sure many of you are already contributing to it!
- A Community can target your Customers, your Partners or even your internal Users. It can also target more than 1 of these user types.
- An example of an internal Community is a company intranet portal, where Employees can use chatter, ask questions, check Articles, share ideas, open internal Cases… etc.
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An example of a Community for your Customers:
- Support community: where customers can check your Articles, ask questions, open cases…etc. (Customers and Employees can be part of such Community)
- Event Registration Community: chatter, events, Registrations, Q&A, Articles, Ideas…
Steps to build Communities:
How Communities work?
- Communities live inside Salesforce org, and allow you to give external members access to subset of yoru date.
- Access is controlled through community profiles and roles that integrate with your Security model
- The external contact will also be Users of your Org.
- Community Licenses are a special type of Licenses. They are listed below.
- Developer Edition has 5 License count of the below Community licenses
| License | Use | Example |
| Customer Community – Named User based – Login count based |
B2C Communities with high volume of users – Max 10M Users |
Communities where you can access knowledge articles, or QA for Products and Services |
| Customer Community Plus – Named User based – Login count based |
B2C or B2B Communities for Support and non-sales scenario – Max 1 M User and 500K Account Roles |
All above +Role Hierarchy +Sharing +Delegated Admin +Reports & Dashboards |
| Partner Community – Named User based – Login count based |
B2B Communities with Access to CRM Data and PRM features – Max 1 M User and 500K Account Roles |
All above +CRM |
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Max Community Users:
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Login vs. Named Users Licenses.- Member based (Named Users): Each user consumes a License
- Login based: monthly pool of Licenses – you are paying baed on the number of Logins you consume!
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Login based is based on a 12-month usage, if 100 logins per month, you can have months more than 100.
- To know the logins, install AppExchange package: Salesforce Community Management.
- Another App: OSF License Optimizer to re-assign user to the right license based on usage, if you have a mix of license types.
- Careful: No Migration across license Type! Make sure to pick the right license from the start!
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Make sure you choose an adequate Domain name:
- mydomain.force.com/communityname
- once you choose a domain name, it cannot be changed
How to enable Salesforce Multi-currency, and what are its implications?
Hey folks!
As part of my study for the Sales Cloud Consultant certificate, I cam across Multi-currency, how to enable it, how to configure it, the difference between the Corporate currency and the different currencies that you add, what about the conversion? What currency show in the Reports? In the Dashboard?… Lots of stuff to worry about. Initially I thought it was a complex thing, but then after studying it,it is very simple! And here I am, summarizing this topic in this post.
Initially, when you create your Organization in Salesforce, you choose a single currency, and work on your Records using only this currency. This is the standard approach. What if your company has many branches in many countries? What if your company requires multiple currencies? Here comes multi-currency!
Before enabling multi-currency, check the implications of enabling this features:
- After being enabled, multiple currencies can’t be disabled for your organization
- Enabling this feature needs lockout duration that depends on the data space used by your organization.
- The currenct Currency Locale will become the default currency stamp
- Upon enablement, existing records are stamped with a default currency code that you provide in your enablement request
- After enablement, all currency fields display the ISO code of the currency before the amount. For example, $100 displays as USD 100
- If you have only one currency in your multi-currency organization, you can set a preference to display currency symbols instead of ISO codes: Go to “User Interface”, and then select “Show currency symbols instead of ISO codes”
To enable Multi-currency, you should:
- In Setup, select Company Information and click Edit. Ensure that your selected currency locale is the default currency that you want to use for current and future records.
- Check the checkbox “Allow Support to Activate Multiple Currencies”, and then save your changes.
- Open a case with Salesforce support, and mention your Org. ID and your confirmation that you understand the implications of enabling multi-currency
When you enable Multi-Currency:
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Setup Currency:
- Go to company Profile – Manage Currency:
- Click on New. Enter the Currency, and the conversion rate.
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