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Campaign Member Customization – More useful than you think!
Sep 1st, 2009 by Marc Baizman

EveCampaign with Membersr since this feature was requested by our old pal Steve Andersen, I’ve been waiting to play around with this.  This feature makes looking at a specific Campaign wayyyy more useful. First thing you should do (if you haven’t already) is add  the CampaignMember Related List to the Campaign Page Layout.   Ta-da!  You can now see which Leads or Contacts are members of your Campaign without running that sucky, uncustomizable Campaign Call Down Report.  But wait!  You can now customize that Campaign Call Down Report too!  Woo-hoo!

Okay, so now you’ve got the report of your Campaign Members.  Wouldn’t you love to indicate payment information on each of those members?  Of course you do!  Sure, you could customize the Campaign Member statuses to indicate RVSP, Paid, etc.  But I’m sure you’d love to capture their payment details.   Well, now you can go ahead and add custom fields to the Campaign Member object, like a Check #, Credit Card #, Amount, etc.  Then, whenever you have events that you want to see if people have paid for, you can use the Campaign Member customization you just did.  There are all sorts of ways to use this, and I’ve only touched on one.  How are you using Campaign Member customization?  Do you like the new Campaign Membership Management?

Winter ‘08 Release for Nonprofits
Nov 5th, 2007 by Sonny Cloward

Since Dreamforce, there has been a lot of talk about how Apex will help nonprofits better leverage Salesforce.  Oh yeah, did I mention Apex is available for all nonprofits: http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/upgrade.  For more info see: http://tinyurl.com/2ej42w .  Over the weekend, sf.com released Winter ‘08 with all sorts of goodies that I think will be valuable for many of us. See Features page: http://blogs.salesforce.com/features/winter_08_release/

  • Campaign EnhancementsSteve Andersen may be single handedly responsible for many of the Campaign enhancements we see in Winter ‘08 (Thank you Mr. Andersen).  Similar to Accounts and Cases, we now have the ability to create hierarchies in campaigns.  Many programs use campaigns to do both outreach and event management, but until now those campaigns have remained disparate from one another (or grouped with a kludgy custom object). Now under a single parent campaign its possible to track and report on all activities in a single effort. 
  • Relational Business Rules:  This is huge!  This provides us the ability to create cross object validation and approval rules. For example you can trigger a workflow rule on multiple criteria on both the account and opportunity records. However, its only possible to base these rules on standard fields.
  • Salesforce to Salesforce: This new feature allows data to be shared across instances of sf.com. Perhaps I’m off on this one, but I see possibilities for affiliated networks, intra-organizational program collaboration (those pesky joint funding collabs), and perhaps inter-organizational instance sharing (one for fundraising, one for program).  Be interested in hearing how others think this new feature might be utilized.
  • Safari: Don’t forget to try sf.com in Safari…its incredibly fast and a great production environment.

While I am very grateful for the donation of Apex to nonprofits, I would love to see the addition of other features in future releases (either donated or at a reduced cost):

And please please…add roll-up summaries to all objects. (Pretty please).

What are your the features that you find most valuable?

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