After 4 years of using Salesforce I need to get more certs to remain a partner. Of course, you get stuck in your ways and don't look too much beyond what you know. So here's a few things I learnt about Salesforce
- Limits on CM edition (I know a lot about limits on Group edition)
- Only 3 tabs
- Dashboards (I haven't done much with dashboards unfortunately).
- Filtered Dashboards https://ap1.salesforce.com/help/pdfs/en/salesforce_dashboard_filters_cheatsheet.pdf
- Scheduled Refreshes
- That dynamic dashboards (per user basis) didn't used to be a thing (introduced 2010) https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=dashboards_dynamic_overview.htm&language=en_US
- Activities (I don't use them much, I use chatter).
- 10 years maximum schedule for a yearly activity
- 50 contacts can be added to an activity - wow, why?
- 100 users can be assigned to a task - wow, I hope I never have to set up a task like this.
- Outlook (as I don't use Outlook, I try to not get involved).
- Tasks 10 minutes to sync tasks and activities to outlook
- Picklists https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=picklist_limitations.htm&language=en_US
- Users can select upto 100 values on a multi select picklist
- Wheras MS picklists are 40 chars, picklists are 255 chars.
- Territory Assignment Rules
- 15 Territory Assignment Rules
- Validation Rules
- 20 per object
- Reports
- 20 Report Filters (I'm sure I have hit this limit before) - but if you do, your reports are too complex - build a formula and then report on that.
- Approvals
- 25 Approvers per step - I'm sure you are doing something wrong if you ever get near this!
- Fields
- Autonumbers can be 30 chars long - good to know.
- Teams
- You can have 30 sales team members - Wow, that is a big sales team!
- Sharing
- 50 Criteria Based Sharing Rules per object - again, you are getting a bit complex if you get this far.
- But 200 sharing rules
- Imports
- 100MB file size limit - seems small
- Campaigns
- Add 250 members via search
- Custom Settings
- 300 fields max - generous
- Workflows
- 50 Active workflows per object - yep, unfortunately run into that one - there is really no need for this many
- 500 time triggers per hour.