New Salesforce Org
The things you do on every new Salesforce Org. Updated for Lightning.
(originally appeared on http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/302/when-setting-up-a-new-salesforce-instance-for-an-organisation-what-are-the-defa)
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First things!
- Turn off the advertising - User Interface. Uncheck Enable Salesforce Notification Banner.
- Turn off the Lightning nag screen - User Interface. Check
- (NOTE that the two turning off advertising checkboxes are opposite you check one and uncheck the other!)
New Features
Even without the new Lightning Experience, all new orgs come without excellent new features enabled, and you will miss out on great functionality if you do not enable them.
- History Tracking on Standard Objects
- Chatter Feed Tracking
- Actions! Global and Quick Actions
- Salesforce Mobile App (needs to be set up properly)
- Einstein Activity Capture and Email Side Panels
- State and Country Picklists
- One Contact to Many Accounts.
- Files - Feature Settings > Salesforce Files > General Settings
- Files uploaded to the Attachments related list on records are uploaded as Salesforce Files, not as attachments.
Company Information and Admin
- Set Fiscal Year
- Set Business Hours
- Set Password Policies
- Set Session Settings
- Set Trusted IP Ranges
- Set Login Access Policies to be only for Admins to request Salesforce.com help.
Security Settings
- Ask client about restricted users and times they should be restricted to.
- Ask about Email Footers. (However, see Emails for issues with Email Footers).
Other
- Enable State and Country Picklists.
- Set up Salesforce Mobile App settings.
- This is a big job!
- Rename Apps and Tabs if needed.
- Enable My Domain, or ensure it is set to the name you actually want.
Apps
Create a Lightning App for the organisation.
Global Actions
Add Follow Up Action - New Task, default to 2 days from now, assigned to the owner of the record, with the subject of Follow Up.
Global Actions Layouts
Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Layout
Add Log a Call Action
Add Follow Up Action
- Add Mobile Smart Actions
Hide Polls Action
Hide Questions Action
- Hide Email Actions
Hide Thanks Actions (unless your organisation has a formal methodology around open thanks and praise, otherwise, it's just a bit naff).
Hide all New record actions unless your organisation is always creating Leads and Opportunities from wherever - (I don't think that is wise at all).
User Interface
- Enable the following
- Collapsible Sections
- Hover Details (not really much of a thing in Lightning though, which is a shame)
- Related Lists Hover Links
- Separate Loading of Related Lists
- Ignore External Objects, they aren't a thing anymore
- Inline Editing
- Enhanced Lists
- Classic 2010 User Interface Theme, yes yes, you still need to enable this
- Tab Bar Organizer
- Customization of Chatter User Profile Pages
- All Calendar items
- Enhanced Page Layout Editor
- Improved Setup User Interface
- Advanced Setup Search
- Do not enable
- Collapsible Sidebar (if using Classic)
- Show Custom Sidebar on all pages (unless using Classic, which you aren't, right)
- Enable Printable List Views
- Turn off customizable Most Recently Used (MRU) actions
- Disable the "Lightning Experience Turns On Soon" Admin Reminder
- Anything in the Setup unless you know what you are turning on
- Disable the following
- Disable Nav Bar Personalization (you want this)
- Show Quick Create (not really a thing in Lightning, but still disable it)
- Enable Salesforce Notification Banner (maybe enable it in Sandbox)
- Check
- Mail Merge (it doesn't actually exist anymore
- Make Choices
- Name Settings
- I don't know
- Google Chrome Storage Partitioning
- ICU formats for en_CA (unless you are in Canada maybe)
- Streaming API (unless you are using it).
- Visualforce
User Interface > Density Settings
- Compact
User Interface > Record Page Settings
- Grouped View