5 Ways to Optimize Google Chrome for Salesforce Admins and Developers

1. 5 EXTENSIONS TO OPTIMIZE GOOGLE CHROME
FOR SALESFORCE ADMINS AND DEVELOPERS
BACKUPIFY – JUNE 2012

2. 5 EXTENSIONS TO OPTIMIZE GOOGLE CHROME FOR SALESFORCE ADMINS AND DEVELOPERS
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INTRODUCTION
Salesforce.com offers the indisputably most popular Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) product on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market, but that
doesn't mean using Salesforce is always straightforward. Salesforce is capable of so
many tasks it's easy to get lost in the quirks of its feature set. These five Chrome
extensions make the life of a Salesforce user appreciably simpler and more
productive.
Salesforce.com ID Clipper
Every record in Salesforce has a unique 15- or 18-digit alphanumeric ID; copy that
ID number into a search box within Salesforce and you'll be taken to the
associated customer record. Sounds simple, right? Not usually, as the record ID is
often buried in a complicated URL with lots of additional, extraneous parameters.
You can't always copy the full URL of a customer record and share it, as the extra
data in URL could produce some strange or broken results when you navigate to it
later, so you must selectively copy the ID out of the URL. (Also, the 15-digit ID is
case-sensitive, whereas the 18-digit ID is not.) That's where Salesforce ID Clipper
comes in, as this Chrome extension will copy just the customer ID (15- or 18-digit),
or just the cleaned-up customer record URL, to your clipboard for pasting into
spreadsheets, emails or chats. It sounds rather basic, but it's a real timesaver.
Salesforce.com Quick Login As
Salesforce allows admins (and in some cases developers) the option to log in as
another user, both for sales and technical support tasks. The trick to making this
functionality work is remembering which user you're logged in as at any given
time (a task that gets doubly confusing if you're using Chrome Incognito tabs to
log into multiple Salesforce sessions at once). The Salesforce Quick Login
As extension simplifies this task by keeping a running tally of every Salesforce user
that has granted you delegated login permissions — and it lets you log into any
individual Salesforce page as any of those users. Just pull up a menu of your
eligible user IDs and instantly view a Salesforce page as that user. You can toggle
between user views quickly and keep support overhead to a minimum.

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Salesforce Sandbox Favicon Extension
It sounds simple, but for anyone running a Salesforce Sandbox (a non-production
test copy of your Salesforce application, where you can play with custom code) in
one tab and the real Salesforce in another, it's easy to forget which is the real
Salesforce and which is the fake. The Salesforce Sandbox Favicon extension
changes the icon of any Sandbox instance to include a handy little S-imprinted
version of Salesforce logo, so you always know if you're playing with test data, or
the real production environment. Embarrassingly useful.
Salesforce.com Enhanced Formula Editor
Salesforce formulas are like spreadsheet formulas — only more complicated,
because they can execute actions that change customer records or cause the
Salesforce platform to advance workflows in one direction or another. In other
words, getting formulas right is serious business; too bad the Salesforce formula
editor is ultra-minimalist in its formatting and features. Thankfully the Enhanced
Formula Editor extension adds such vital features as color-coding formula
functions, data fields and mathematical operators; matches sets of parentheses;
adds a find-replace function, and enables fullscreen editing. If you build Salesforce
formulas on a regular basis — or are ready to dip your toe into Salesforce
formulas by adding formula fields to a couple of Salesforce objects — you need
this Chrome extension.
Force.com Utility Belt
Force.com is where developers go to build custom Salesforce applications; it's both
the platform that runs advanced custom Salesforce apps and the knowledgebase
that developers use to guide their Salesforce coding efforts. Unfortunately,
Force.com documentation and the Force.com dev environment are very separate,
even though you often need access to one while you're working in the other.
There is no simple way to access Force.com's reference materials while in the
development environment, nor can you easily grab code samples from within the
editor. The Force.com Utility Belt extension breaks down that wall by adding links
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search box to scour the full set of Force.com reference materials to help you while
you code. And, just for a little extra help, the Utility Belt comes with a converter
that translates 15-digit Salesforce record IDs into 18-digit case-safe IDs — because
the need comes up more often than you'd expect.
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