This week ButtonClickAdmin is proud to host a guest post from Salesforce MVP Andy Ognenoff. Andy is a Certified Salesforce Admin, Advanced Admin, Consultant, Developer, and admintted Salesforce.com Junkie. Andy has worked out a very useful tip for adding reports directly to the Account page. Before we get started, there is a very good post on how to create a dynamic report from a custom button on the Interactive Ties site that provides us with a base set of knowledge for creating dynamic reports. You can read that post by clicking here, it’s very well written and gives a nice blueprint to get started. That being said, I’ll let Andy take over from here and show us how to do some pretty useful things with dynamic reports and visualforce. If you’ve been a Salesforce.com administrator for a while, you’re probably familiar with how useful custom links and buttons can be.  They’re a powerful way

The Salesforce community is among the best in the world. But a community is really the summation of its members, you can’t have a great community without awesome members. So when I had a situation that I had to solve for my users I turned to the Salesforce community for help. And they responded, in a big way. The situation. On multiple occasions I have had requests from users and executives to have text and hyperlinks appear on a record like a webpage. Maybe you have as well, and for the most part as I dug deeper into the request it usually turned out to be a training issue or one that can be solved with some clever text in the help bubble of a field. That was until the other day when one department needed specific text instructions with links listed on the activities page. Tried as I could, this Button-click

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Now it’s time to shake off that turkey-coma and do some final preparation for Dreamforce. I want to thank Brandy Colmer (@forcedotmom) for pointing out this session to me, as it really embodies the Button-Click credo. We are all really good at being Button-Click Admins so why not take our skills to the next level? #1- Moving from Clicks to Code (12/7 12:45- 1:45) Ready to intensify? If you’ve been a Salesforce administrator for a while and are looking to expand your knowledge, this is just the session for you. We’ll introduce advanced concepts such as Force.com pages (Visualforce), Force.com code (Apex), platform fundamentals, and other relevant topics to help you better understand how you can go from admin to hero in 0 to 60. Woo-hoo! Why you should attend- Dreamforce is all about making the most of your time and getting new

It was a little over a year ago that I had an executive walk up to me and  say “We should be tracking our competitors in your Salesforce. Get started on that.” Sound familiar? It happens to us Button-click admins all the time- they need something  and you have to make it go… yesterday. To answer that executive’s request I turned to the Appexchange. If you have never been there- because you are a new admin- its a wonderland filled with candy and toys. Well, at least to us admins it is. Working for a non-profit my budget to do things in Salesforce is always $0. I don’t even have to ask anymore because I get the “that’s what we have you for” answer. Unfortunately for me Salesforce Labs had not yet introduced “Know your Enemy” so I had to build a competitor and related objects from scratch. But I