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@Gryph911 @grok what is the Shakespeare reference?

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Salesforce is a Ferrari with a monthly subscription for the steering wheel. Odoo is a project car… you build it yourself, but you own every bolt. The real question isn’t which is better. It’s which one matches how you think.

@salesforce I'll pass.

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App of the Day: Record Hunter Ever wished you could search for records directly from a record page? Record Hunter lets you build custom search boxes right into your Lightning pages. Drop it on an Account page to find Contacts. Add it to a Case page to locate related records. Configure it in App Builder - no code required. Free from Salesforce Labs. Open source if you want to customize it.

Salesforce App of the Day: Quick Actions Everywhere Tired of your Lightning action bar getting overcrowded? This free open-source tool lets you put Quick Actions directly in related lists. Example: Add a "Log a Call" button right on the Activities related list that pre-fills the Account ID. No more scrolling up to find the action. Works in Lightning, Classic, Mobile, and Communities. GitHub: github.com/jmdohn/Quick-A… Great setup video: youtu.be/Tpf4Nn2_jIs

Salesforce App of the Day: Data Fetcher This free Salesforce Labs component lets you query records dynamically inside screen flows using SOQL or SOSL. Users can filter and select records themselves - no more rigid flow paths or tons of decision elements. 4.93 stars on AppExchange. Created by Josh Dayment.

Salesforce App of the Day: Home/Child Kanban Built by Salesforce Labs. Free. Open source on GitHub. What it does: Drag & drop Kanban view for ANY object. Put it on home pages or record pages. Group by any picklist, summarize by any number field. I've used this on client projects. Simple to set up, works great for visual pipeline management. 60 reviews on AppExchange.

App of the day: Avonni Components Problem it solves: Standard related lists don't support inline editing. Updating 20 line items means 20 record opens. Avonni's Data Table lets users edit records spreadsheet-style right in a Flow. Click a cell to edit, bulk select, update multiple records at once. Free up to 10 users on AppExchange. 70+ Flow components included.

Need better charts in Salesforce? There's a free app for that. Lightning Web Chart.js Component (LWCC) from Salesforce Labs gives you 8 chart types: bar, line, pie, doughnut, bubble, scatter, radar, polar area. What makes it useful: - Drag and drop from App Builder - No code required - Pull data directly from SOQL queries - Works on record pages, home pages, and Communities Admins configure with clicks. Developers can extend with code. Free on AppExchange.

Flashforge AD5X tip: the bowden connectors twist off. Don't push down like standard fittings. Just twist and pull. Would have saved me 20 minutes of frustration if I knew this earlier.

Needed a Sharpie holder. Asked AI to write JavaScript code to generate the STL using Three.js. 5 minutes later: printed and on my desk. The barrier between idea and physical object keeps shrinking.

As the cost of making changes to systems keeps dropping, does technical debt matter as much as it used to? When you can refactor in hours instead of weeks, maybe "good enough now" isn't the liability it once was. Or does cheaper change just mean we accumulate debt faster?

If you only had one week to live, would you change anything? What about one year? Five years? Twenty? The gap between "what I would do" and "what I am doing" is worth examining.

Found CPQ Mastery - a social network built specifically for Salesforce CPQ professionals. Forums, courses, job boards, private groups for consulting teams. If you work with CPQ or Quote-to-Cash, worth a look. cpqmastery.pro

Sharing ideas publicly takes courage. You never know how people will respond, and that uncertainty can be paralyzing. But growth happens when we push past that discomfort. The ideas that resonate find their audience. The ones that don't teach us something valuable. Ship the idea. Learn from the response.

App of the day: PaintedPath Cloud113 Problem it solves: Salesforce Path looks generic and doesn't match your branding Customize colors for active, complete, and incomplete stages. Match your company colors. Even has confetti effects for celebrating closed deals. Free on AppExchange

With the new Salesforce tooling available, you can go from idea to working proof of concept in under an hour. That speed changes how you approach problems. Build it, show it, iterate.

Reminder: Workflow Rules and Process Builder officially unsupported after Dec 31, 2025. If you still have them running, now's the time to migrate to Flow. Not sure what you have? Setup → Process Automation → Migrate to Flow Don't wait until it breaks. #Salesforce #SalesforceAdmin

@partnerforce This links to splashthat and not slack... is that correct?