Configuration and Setup Flashcards
Locale
Controls the language and format of date and time, address, currency, name, and number fields
Language Settings
Defines the default language of the Salesforce org and the languages that users will be able to use in their personal settings
Default Language
- Set on the Company Information page and will be applied to new users
- When this is selected. this will be the language used in the SF org
Translation Workbench
Allows translations to be applied to custom fields, labels, and translations from managed packages and custom picklist values
3 Levels of Language Support
1.) Fully Supported
2.) End User
3.) Platform
Fully Supported Language
- Means ALL Salesforce features, including UI, Setup, and Help, will display in the selected language
- There are currently 18 of these types of languages, including English, German, French, and Spanish
End User Language
- These languages will have translations for ALL standard object field labels and pages but not for Setup and Help
- There are currently 17 of these types of languages available, including Vietnamese, Polish, and Greek
Platform Languages
- For these languages, it is possible to provide translations for customizations and standard fields
- If translations are not provided, labels fall back to English
- There are over 30 of these types of languages, English, Irish, Hindi, and Tamil
3 Ways Users can change their own display language
1.) My Settings
2.) Personal
3.) Language and Time Zone
Organization (Org) ID
- A unique 15-character identifier that identifies each Salesforce org and is different for each Salesforce org
- This is found on the ‘Company Information’ page
- Will be different across environments (ex: Development, Test, and Production)
- Needs to be provided when requesting support from SF and other AppExchange vendors
Licenses
- Defines what features and services are made available to an org
- Total, used, and remaining _________ are displayed on the ‘Company Information’ page
- Assigned to users to grant access to features
3 Types of Licenses
1.) User Licenses
2.) Feature Licenses
3.) Permission Set Licenses
User Licenses
- Defines the baseline of features available to a user
- Each user MUST be assigned 1 license to determine the level of access to the org and which Profiles can be selected (ex: Salesforce, Chatter Free, Force.com, etc.)
Feature Licenses
- Grants access to additional features that are not included in a standard license, such as Marketing, Knowledge, or CRM Content
- Grants a user access to Campaigns
- Assigned via checkboxes in a user’s profile
Permission Set Licenses
- Can be used to assign Users specific settings and permissions to use various tools and functions
- Gradually grants users access to features that are not included in their user licenses
API
- Stands for ‘Application Programming Interface’
- Allows access to Salesforce programmatically instead of using the UI
- Ex: Bulk data loading tools such as Data Loader, integration tools such as Informatica, or integrations with other systems
- Available for Enterprise, Unlimited, Developer, and Performance editions
- Can be monitored from the ‘Company Information’ page
Time Zone Setting
- Determines how Time and Date Fields display
Organization Time Zone
- Set on the ‘Company Information’ page and is used as the default for new users
User Time Zone
- Users can set this themselves, which will override the org setting
- Time and Date Fields will display according to this setting
Single Currency Orgs
- Can set the org-wide currency on the ‘Company Information’ page using the ‘Currency’ locale
- The currency symbol in amount fields will reflect the currency locale
- Single currency is the default
Multi-Currency Orgs
- Allows users to utilize more than 1 currency within the SF org
- MUST be enabled on the ‘Company Information’ page by an Admin
- The corporate currency is defined in these types of orgs
- Currencies MUST be made Active for them to be used
- Reporting and Forecasting can be done in the record currency and corporate currency
- Users can set their individual currency in the ‘Personal Information’ page. This type of currency can be used in reports, quotes, forecasts, and other records that use currency amounts
- Exchange rates between active currencies can be set on the ‘Manage Currencies’ page
2 Categories of Currencies for Reports that support Multiple Currencies
1.) Primary Currency
2.) Secondary Currency
Primary Currency
Reflects either the default corporate currency or the currency selected for the record
Secondary Currency
Reflects the personal default currency of the user running the report, or the currency specified in the report criteria