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Salesforce B2C vs B2B
Salesforce is primarily set up using a Business to Business (B2B) model as compared to a Business to Customer (B2C) model. It uses Accounts to represent a Business and Contacts to represent ...
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What to expect in the Sales Cloud exam?
Sales cloud examination ,you will need to put your consultant hat .The first and foremost thing that you should be aware of is "Typical Sales Cycle".Right from campaigning to opportunity closure you ...
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Salesforce Integration - An exception occurred while saving the integration
I've seen this error a bunch of times and the only solution that has worked 100% of the time is to delete the package and reinstall. But you should follow these steps below before deleting and ...
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Data Extension Synchronisation of child BU
Yes, but you would have to upgrade to multi-org. With multi-org, you would be able to connect the parent with your Salesforce org using one API user and choose which objects should synchronize, and ...
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How can I see emails sent from Marketing Cloud on Salesforce Records?
This is a standard feature of the Marketing Cloud Connector. It is built by default to transmit the tracking information back to Salesforce. Here's what you need to do
In Marketing Cloud -
Tracking ...
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Salesforce: Log in as other user
Please follow below instructions to Enable the "Organization Admins Can Login as Any User" feature:
Enable the "Organization Admins Can Login as Any User" feature
With this feature enabled, ...
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Replacing Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connect with REST API
I will not recommend replacing the Marketing Cloud Connect, with REST API. If your use case is sending a confirmation email, when e.g. a new consumer is created as a contact, you can either use ...
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Bidirectional Data flow between SFDC and SFMC
Nope, nothing out of the box apart from the things you mentioned.
Here's a little visual I did some time ago showing all the OOTB data synch features of Marketing Cloud Connect. Anything beyond ...
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How to Activate an Order Programmatically without setting the Status field to a String value
There is no way to programmatically get a specific status that is has a Status Category (StatusCode) of Activated ('A') or Draft ('D').
If you don't care about the specific status but just that you ...
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How to restrict uploading exe file in salesforce
We can control the download behaviour of the files using configuration(Point & Click). However as far as i know we do not have any standard declarative way in which you can control the file to be ...
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Marketing Cloud Campaigns Vs Sales Cloud Campaigns?
They are entirely different features to start with.
In Marketing Cloud the 'Campaign' is just a way to tag your content with a keyword to easily find related content and activities, and see it on ...
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Querying sales cloud object
You can't do this in Query activity, however it is possible in AmpScript (e.g. in an email or CloudPage). You can a.o. fetch all leads where their region is set to 'west':
%%[ var @rs
Set @rs= ...
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Correct Sales Cloud life cycle understanding?
Can you all tell me whether this flow/understanding is proper?
Also if you have much more detailed & simplified flow charts, please do share.
You can see the precise ERD (Entity Relationship ...
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Salesforce: Log in as other user
Verify if that user is active by navigating to Setup > Administration Setup > Manage Users > Users. Locate your user in list and verify Active column is checked.
Verify if user has granted you login ...
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manual sharing in partner community
You can't share an opportunity with a user you don't have permission to see can you? If your Partner Portal Users aren't visible to one another, then manual sharing isn't going to work for them. You'...
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Avoid SOQL inside For loop in trigger
i think that your better solution is dont use a query
public static void mostRecentRead (List<Book__c> bkList){
Case[] updateCases = new Case[]{};
for(Book__c b : bkList){
if(...
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Salesforce history log
Does anyone know if Salesforce keeps a history log of record changes and is able to provide that for a fee?
They can provide a log of records that were changed via Historical Event Logs, but that ...
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Salesforce Contact's Email Sends empty
The Email Sends list will only populate with email sends made to individual contacts / leads. If it's added onto the page layout, you will see that Send Marketing Cloud Email link in addition to the ...
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Email Address updated in Sales Cloud, MC Email sent to Old Email address
You can set up a scheduled automation that reads the updates from the synchronized data extensions and writes them to the All Subscribers list.
The necessary activities in the automation are:
SQL ...
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How do we scan barcode in Salesforce?
In my experience, handheld scanning devices act just like any other input device. Simply put your cursor in the field where you want the bar code's numbers and scan the barcode. The numbers will show ...
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why i'm seeing "Standard page view" & "Standard page edit" link on every visualforce page
Figured it out, this is due to another chrome extension.
I removed it and those links doesnt show up anymore.
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Email Delivery Settings Salesforce
Someone from System Admin profile has activated Email Relay.
So, before activation, you will see a menu link (Email Relay Activation). After clicking that link following screen is displayed.
And ...
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How to see tracking of emails sent through marketing cloud in sales cloud at lead & contact level?
If you have already done the integration, you are just probably missing this step: https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=mc_co_update_page_layouts.htm&type=5
You can find all the info about ...
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Synchronize MobleConnect Opt-in/Opt-out with Sales Cloud or Service Cloud
Run a script in Automation Studio in SSJS:
<script runat="server">
Platform.Function.TreatAsContent(Platform.Function.ContentAreaByName("contentarea"))
</script>
Then in the Content Area,...
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Using just Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud - to have the same contacts, do I need Sales cloud?
Synchronized Data Sources work with the Sales or Service Clouds. So you do not need to have both.
Documentation on Synchronized Objects can be found here: Synchronized Data Sources
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Is it possible to inject a contact into a Marketing cloud journey based on an event in SalesCloud?
It is indeed possible and very simple. You should use Salesforce Data Event in Journey Builder:
A Salesforce Data Event is an action in Sales or Service Clouds, such as creating or updating an ...
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Facebook to Salesforce Sales cloud / Service cloud Integration
First of all, depending on what actions you would like to take with those leads, remember that some form of consent is needed in order to send them an email, etc. Grabbing everyone who liked your fan ...
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Not getting custom field on Add Contact Roles
This is quite doable (in Lightning only). When editing the OCR page layout, you have to edit the Multi-Line Layout, not the layout for the OCR detail page. This is covered in a Knowledge Article
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Marketing Cloud journeys from MC connect
Well.... "it depends".
If your journey is relying alone on the journey data, and you don't have any contact deletion process in place, the contact will just continue through the journey. If there are ...
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What are the differences regarding Cases in Sales and Service Cloud?
Mohith mentions "field service management" as being included with Service Cloud. This is a bit squishy. I wouldn't say that there is anything that is inherently Field Service-y about service cloud. ...
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