Michael Kolodner
- Apr 10
- 7 min
These Are Not The Components You're Looking For
Salesforce's "Industries" solutions come with access to many new components. I wish they worked better.
281 views
Michael Kolodner
- Mar 27
- 6 min
Deeply Skeptical About Person Accounts
Despite being the official solution for dealing with individuals on Salesforce, Person Accounts are difficult to use.
749 views
Michael Kolodner
- Mar 13
- 15 min
The Emperor's New Clouds
New Nonprofit Cloud and Education Cloud are more expensive and less functional than NPSP and EDA. Most nonprofits should stay away.
3,686 views
Michael Kolodner
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Thing I Learned: Email Encoding Has Changed
Salesforce's default email encoding has switched to UTF-8 (unicode). Make sure you update yourself and all existing users.
197 views
Michael Kolodner
- Feb 14
- 5 min
My FlowLog Object
I use a custom object to log when automation fires and what steps are completed. Here's what I built and how I make it easy to reuse.
318 views
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Michael Kolodner
- Jan 31
- 7 min
Email to someone not [yet] in Salesforce
How I solved the challenge of emailing someone that might not be in Salesforce and still relating that message to the right record.
224 views