How to use Salesforce inspector in Salesforce?
Now let’s move on to presenting the details and basics of using Salesforce Inspector. If we have installed the browser plugin, after logging in to Salesforce, we will notice a transparent arrow on the right side of the screen (marked with an arrow in the image below). Clicking on it will expand the Salesforce Inspector menu.
What is the use of Salesforce Inspector Chrome extension?
Salesforce Inspector as a Chrome Extension also serves the purpose of transacting Data in and out from Salesforce. The Exported Data can be further formatted to Excel or JSON or CSV file. It also enables the user to transport any deleted data in the recycle bin or transport an archived record.
What was your first task as a Salesforce admin?
As an early admin of Salesforce, my first tasks were doing data cleanups of our accounts and contacts. Cleaning up 100k accounts with Salesforce’s data loader was a nightmare. Workbench can work, but it has major limitations, and Dataloader.io has a limit of 10k records per month.
How do I change the manager of a report?
Without the tool, I’d go into the reports tab, create a new report, select the users report type, search for and drag in the appropriate fields, then export the data to a csv. Open the csv in excel, manipulate the data to change the “manager” field to the new manager, and save it as a csv.
What is Salesforce Inspector?
The “Show all data” feature of the Salesforce Inspector is an advanced version of View Field feature available in the quick access menu of Force.com, which helps the user to identify API Name, Field Label, and data type of all fields. But, Salesforce Inspector gives a better and detailed view of the field types by displaying the values of the fields. Also, it lets you view the values of the fields which are not present in the page layout.
What is Chrome Extension for Salesforce?
This Chrome Extension for Salesforce will help you gain profound insights into your organization in a single look with the help of multiple visual meters that indicate the critical points and limits of your organizational processes in the form of percentages. Some of these attributes are Hourly Time-based Workflow, Daily API requests, Daily Async Apex execution, and other relevant parameters.
Is Salesforce Inspector available for Firefox?
This Chrome Extension is now also available for the Firefox internet browser. Salesforce Inspector offers you the key benefit of quick glancing, batch operations, and a set of multi-purpose tools, all packed concisely, so you can get quickly close all the time-consuming non-cerebral tasks and focus on the more complicated challenges that you encounter.
Introduction
As an early admin of Salesforce, my first tasks were doing data cleanups of our accounts and contacts. Cleaning up 100k accounts with Salesforce’s data loader was a nightmare. Workbench can work, but it has major limitations, and Dataloader.io has a limit of 10k records per month.
Salesforce Inspector
I came across a random blog post mentioning a Google Chrome extension that helped with SOQL queries, and I was intrigued. I added it to Chrome and was immediately blown away. I was able to run a simple SOQL query, copy to Excel, and manipulate as needed. From there, I could copy from Excel back into the extension and paste.