Tip #283: Create a limited customizer role

In most deployments, users who need to manage customizations in an environment are granted the System Administrator or System Customizer role. This gives them the ability to create or edit entities, relationships, fields, views, charts, dashboards, the whole enchilada. But what if you want a nibble of the enchilada? Not all customizations carry the same […]

Tip #97: CRM Administrators Don’t Take this Shortcut

CRM System Admin

Okay, I understand, we are all busy and have more to do than time to do it. As CRM Administrators we can often spend most of our day reacting to requests with little time to actually plan our response. Here is the typical scenario – The marketing manager calls you and lets you know that […]

Tip #79: Limit use of System Admin and System Customizer Assignments

CRM System Admin Role

At the risk of significant human induced catastrophe, don’t assign the System Administrator or System Customizer security roles to anyone that hasn’t received in-depth training in customizing, configuring and managing the CRM system. No matter how expedient it might be to assign the role to a marketing team member that needs to go into the […]