#FridayFive
Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read
This is the first of what is hopefully many #FridayFive posts. (By me, and hopefully you too!)
Read more about the idea and what inspired me in my previous post “#BAM / Intro to #FridayFive: Five Things I Recently Learned.”
I have been working on a POC for a customer using communities so there is a bit of a theme for me this week.
- A Salesforce Community can be for both customers and partners. I’m not sure if this was a change in security or just marketing, but a single community can be used for your customer licenses and partner licenses. It used to be that the conversation around communities was, “This is a PARTNER community,” and “We are creating a CUSTOMER community,” but now you could just create one community (one URL) and have it serve multiple license types. The templates are still geared toward one or the other for the most part, licensing restrictions still apply (if you add Content Libraries, that doesn’t mean your customers can see them), but it seems like a more natural fit, especially if you have a single admin trying to juggle multiple user groups.
- In old news to anyone working with these daily, “CRM Content” and Files underwent a bit of a transformation a few releases ago. “Files” in Lightning and Communities will pull up all your Files, including Libraries, which used to be the purview of “CRM Content” only, behind a license wall. Still lacking though is the ability to tag library files in the LEX interface. Read more from Vic Novak.
- Lightning List View sharing stinks. I already knew this was limited, but it was underscored working on the community, where I’ve got to go back to Classic just to make sure community users can’t see extra list views. It also means, if I really care about that as an admin, that I would need to train, lockdown, or police other users who are allowed to create and share list views. Heres an idea exchange listing that promises it is coming in the next release. Thank goodness.
- Sometimes, work-life balance DOES mean “work-life integration”. This was a phrase from a past employer that I loathed. However, I bought a new desk on Monday, which is small enough that I now have an office space in the hallway between my kitchen and our back room (which has morphed into a playroom). The garage door is directly behind me. It might seem like a chaotic location, but it gets me out of the basement (where I keep my studio) and into natural light. I am finding that having this space more accessible, I am able to steal little snippets of time where I can knock out busy work (order batteries, fire off a quick email) and when I get the longer blocks of time, I am really able to dedicate myself to undistracted work, increasing my quality of work.
- A year can go by really fast. This one is not directly Salesforce related, but ohana means family, and my family is my life. Wednesday this week, my baby turned 1. How did that happen?

What is your #FridayFive this week?
