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Ability to reference Parent/Child Account fields in formulas
This should be pretty simple yet painful if not impossible to implement today from the web interface. I want to be able to create a formula field in a Child Account that gets its values from fields in the Parent Account or vice versa.
I see that when you create a Field Update formula, there is a drill down to related Objects. It's a step to the right direction. Please replicate this to other formula dialog boxes and add drill downs to Parent or Child Account.
Confirmation request when you want to send an EMAIL
I made already several mistakes sending emails to persons I don't want to. Two examples:
1) Creating or modifying an event that has several invitees. If you click on "Save & send invitation" by mistake, all your invitees will receive the comments you placed in there about how was the meeting!
2) Using the templates to send an email, you may click involuntary to "send" and there you are sending a Happy Birthday card to someone who has a relative that passed away!
A confirmation box will solve those painful mistakes. On Set up sections users may choose to use or not this option.
Public directory to connect with other salesforce.com customers?
Have you ever wondered who is using salesforce.com and how you'd connect with them?
Now that we've released salesforce to salesforce S2S, you can easily connect with companies and contacts you know and then share data with them.
But what about finding companies based on a profile search or a set of attributes like type of company, vertical focus, market coverage, business need, location etc etc?????
Would you opt in to publish your business profile and make it publicly visible?
Salesforce.com Certification Program
In the 5 years that I've been my company's salesforce.com administrator, my fellow employees have been able to obtain industry recognized certifications from Oracle and Microsoft. At the same time as improving their skill sets, these certifications improve their opportunity for job security, career advancement and better compensation. My salesforce experience doesn't mean as much during my HR review as my friend's Microsoft certification. And I don't want to be penalized for focusing on salesforce.com instead of SQL, .NET or Oracle.
I know that you have some courses available but it's easier to get funding for courses that are part of a certification program that a stand alone course. And how about a self study option for some of the classroom courses?
Salesforce has a certification program for partner companies but how about one for the system administrators that actually make your product work for your customers?
Thanks.
Aiden
Allow Date Comparison in SOQL Statements
It would be nice to be able to run queries, filtered on the results of comparing two date fields. e.g.:
Contact[] contacts = [SELECT id,
name,
member_status__c,
last_update__c,
renewal_date__c
FROM Contact
WHERE member_status__c = 'Active' AND renewal_date__c < last_update__c];
(This could also be used in setting the flters/criteria for views and reports)
Adjustable column widths
The ability to quickly click and drag to adjust the column widths in views and reports (like in Excel). Should be able to save these view preferences so that you don't have to re-adjust it every time.
Filter on Lookup
I would like to filter lookup view to restrict records return based on some condition.
Example: On opportunity screen, we have Accounts as lookup. When you click on lookup it displays all the types of accounts (Like OEM / Parent / Customer / Partner etc ...) I would like to filter this result set to show only "Parent" type. Condition may change based on the screen where lookup is implemented
Allow in-line editing for views
Please enable in-line editing for views similar to forms. This would be incredibly useful when you need to quickly edit data in a list view instead of going to each individual record.
Name and Type for all SObjects
No more wasting queries.
Today when you want to get the name of an SObject that is a lookup on another SObject you have to use a query.
ie:
You have Account on Contact, through the Force.com platform technologies if you want the name of the Account you have to do another query to get it.
select Name from Account where Id = contact.AccountId.
In Apex this is a waste of a very valuable query.
It would be nice that all SObjects come with Name and Type.
ie: (in an Apex Trigger)
for(Contact c : Trigger.new){
//To get the Account name you could do something like,
String accName = c.AccountId.Name;
}
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