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Welcome to the Custom Metadata party with Vladimir Gerasimov Apr 23, 2018

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Have you joined the Custom Metadata Type party yet? Join us with Salesforce Product Manager Vladimir Gerasimov as we discuss what Custom Metadata Types are and how Salesforce Admins can use them.

We also share a horrible joke from Daniel Sieff, make an exciting announcement about Midwest Dreamin 2018, and wonder why our intern this episode hasn't brought us our drinks (Kristin Cecil).

Show Overview 00:00 Mark accidentally destroys the world 01:58 Intro Music 02:20 Horrible joke from Daniel Sieff https://twitter.com/sirsieff/status/966838899879436293 03:20 Affiliate Spot - Libsyn podcast hosting. Free Month with promoCode: podmagic 05:00 Introducing Vladimir Gerasimov https://twitter.com/vladimge Product Manager Custom Metdatypes 06:30 What is a custom Metadata types. Brian & Mark are late to the party 09:50 Custom Metadata Types for Admins 12:20 Custom Settings vs Custom Metadata types 15:30 Some short comings of Custom Metadata Types 19:06 Formula Fields & Default Values (Safe Harbor) maybe Winter '19 19:50 Custom Metadata Types for Admins - Use Cases 22:00 Multi-currency in Custom Metadata Types 25:00 Custom Metadata Types in Flow. Shout out to Jenn W Lee https://twitter.com/jenwlee Jenn W Lee Blog 27:00 Admin Friendly Development with Custom Metadata Types 29:50 Cheating in Apex Unit Tests 31:40 Should an Admin of a Mature Org, spend the resources to update to Custom Metadata Types 34:20 Other Resources: TrailheadX, future blog posts 36:20 Global Picklists 38:00 Unrestricted Picklist Values 39:30 Find me a Dreamforce and we'll make someone cry 41:00 Vladimir's elevator pitch to Parker Harris 44:32 thanks to Vladimir for being an engaged product manager at Salesforce 46:00 Hypothetically, how would one bribe Vladimir? Show him the impacts, data as a bribe... plus cavair 49:19 Exciting Announcement: MidWest Dreamin' 2018: Know the Flow Code. 50:10 Closing Credits with Kristin Cecil https://twitter.com/kececil 51:33 Closing Music 52:13 Post credit commentary Reach out to Vladimir Gerasimov

Twitter: https://twitter.com/vladimge
Custom Metadata Types Trailblazer group: https://success.salesforce.com/_ui/core/chatter/groups/GroupProfilePage?g=0F9300000001t77
Global Picklists Trailblazer group: https://success.salesforce.com/_ui/core/chatter/groups/GroupProfilePage?g=0F9300000009PDt
Custom Time Field Trailblazer group: https://success.salesforce.com/_ui/core/chatter/groups/GroupProfilePage?g=0F9300000009PDt

Links in This Show

Jennifer W Lee Blog
MidWest Dreamin 2018
NY World Tour April 26
TrailheadX Custom Metadata Types with Validation Rules with Vladimir Gerasimov and Cheryl Feldman https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=8ScWAZjVemI&ab_channel=SalesforceDevelopers

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Salesforce Certification Strategies with Adam Olshansky WizardCast 68 Apr 10, 2018

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Adam Olshansky is a Salesforce MVP, Developer at YouTube and holds 14 Salesforce Certifications. He shares what Salesforce Certification means with him and shares his tips on how he got 6 Salesforce certifications in 8 months.

"Don't think of it as a failure, but more of a learning opportunity." - Adam Olshansky on failing Salesforce Certification exams.

Show Overview

00:00 Last Time On the WizardCast 01:10 Introduction 02:01 A Tearable Joke 03:25 World Tour Shout Out 03:46 Coffee Break https://twitter.com/petercoffee/status/979800598802415616 Moore's Law Rate 05:39 Mark Hamill TrailheadX marketers https://twitter.com/matthewsalibi/status/979490597055578113 08:47 Affiliate Mention: Libsyn Podcast Hosting Service. Free monthw with Libsyn PromoCode: podmagic 09:37 Introducing Adam Olshansky https://twitter.com/adam17amo 11:00 Salesforce Certification counterpoint to Carlos Siqueira. Why does Adam have so many Certifications? 14:40 Adam Olshansky's quick acquiring of Salesforce Certifications. 6 certs in 8 months! 21:20 Adam Olshansky's tips and process for preparing for Salesforce Certification exams 28:00 Methods for taking the certification exams 32:00 Advice for the actual Salesforce certification test 35:00 Mark's tip: Drink a lot to get better answers 36:58 Adam Olshansky talks about failing Salesforce Certification tests 40:45 RAD Women - Help teach women to code in APEX http://radwomen.org/ https://twitter.com/RADWomenCode 43:00 Mark wonders if Adam has bested Professor X's X-men. 44:30 Adam admits to having a Death Eater mask. 44:50 What 1 question would Adam Olshansky as Parker Harris? 45:50 What's the next iteration of Salesforce? 46:00 Why didn't Parker make sure Lightning worked "right" to begin with? 47:40 What's it like to do Salesforce at YouTube? 51:00 Outro with Thanks to Intern Micah Perry https://twitter.com/MicahDPerry 52:39 Closing Music 53:02 Post Credits bloopers Links in This Show

Mark Hamill TrailheadX Marketing Conference https://twitter.com/matthewsalibi/status/979490597055578113
Peter Coffee Twitter Coffee break: https://twitter.com/petercoffee/status/979800598802415616
Adam Olshansky Twitter: https://twitter.com/adam17amo
Salesforce Certification Study Guides http://certification.salesforce.com/
Rad Women: http://radwomen.org/
Rad Women Twitter:https://twitter.com/RADWomenCode
Adam's Pluralsight Lightning Migration Course http://bit.ly/lightningmigration

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Your Salesforce Idea Highlights April 2018 WizardCast Episode 67 Apr 02, 2018

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In Idea Highlights, we take recommendations from listeners on what they want to see improved in Salesforce. These ideas are posted on Salesforce's IdeaExchange, where customers can post suggestions, comments, and vote on their desired features.

This episode, we hear ideas submitted to WizardCast from Amber Boaz, Yohan Yu, Sarah Pilzer, and Jen Bowen. Thank you for your contributions!

Show Overview

00:00 Last Time on the WizardCast a very Grav-E jokes 00:42 Podcast Intro 02:01 Joke from Carrie Anderson https://twitter.com/carrie_msp/status/967935009368805377 02:54 NEW SEGMENT *cash register sound* Salesforce enters agreement to purchase MuleSoft 11:03 Libsyn Podcast Hosting Affiliate mention. Get a free month & help the Wizardcast when you use the promocode: podmagic 11:57 Mark Introduces Parker Harris (Belated April Fool's) Segment: LIGHTBULB 12:40 Amber Boaz: Average as Roll-up Summary Type 14:50 Rankles afterschool snack 15:16 Johan Yu Add Recycle Bin to Lightning Experience 17:18 Sarah Pilzer: Support top-Down tab key order in Lightning Experience 19:23 Jen Bowen: Allow Tasks to be assigned to a Queue 20:50 Salesforce is in the process to get rid of the underlying Oracle Database? 25:12 Closing Credits with Mike Welch as our episode intern. 26:36 Closing Music 27:01 Post Music gag HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share #WizardCast with your twitter followers. Click here to post a tweet! https://ctt.ec/23f7u Ways to subscribe to The WizardCast

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Salesforce Trailblazer Story of Carlos Siqueira WizardCast Episode 66 Mar 19, 2018

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Brian Kwong and Mark Ross talk to Salesforce Trailblazer Carlos Siqueira. Carlos is an immigrant from Brazil and Salesforce MVP

Carlos has over 200 Trailhead badges and 4 certifications. He's fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Join us as we talk about Carlos' journey from Mainframes to Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning Field Service, and MVP Office Hours Portuguese.

We also chat about Peter Coffee's tweet regarding caffeine and tell a really bad joke from listener Lorna O'Callaghan.

Show Overview

00:00 Last Time on The WizardCast 01:54 Introduction 02:59 Dental Joke: https://twitter.com/lornaocall/status/966897430477197317 03:44 Belated Pi Day but Tau is twice as good 04:12 Happy Saint Molis Day WizardCast Saint Molis day Episode 22 05:40 Was Mark Funny? Tweet and let us know! @Wizardcast_pod 06:20 coffee Break - Caffeine https://twitter.com/petercoffee/status/972875105431883781 Article: https://boingboing.net/2015/02/18/caffeine-can-really-mess-with.html 13:05 Libsyn Promo, free month for podcast hosting with promocode: podmagic 13:58 Introducing Carlos Siqueira 15:25 From end user to MVP in 19 months 22:15 Journey to Salesforce 28:12 Why Carlos left Brazil. To be a famous singer 31:35 How he became and MVP 34:30 Process Builder for custom field history 37:10 Failing the first certification and Carlos' response 39:00 Giving back 39:44 Translating for Portuguese 43:39 MVP Office Portuguese https://success.salesforce.com/_ui/core/chatter/groups/GroupProfilePage?g=0F93A0000001zic https://twitter.com/MVPOHPortugues 48:50 Field Service Lightning Certification 55:00 Carlos' advice: Have Faith, Work Hard, Don't give up hope 1:00:07 What 1 question would Carlos ask Parker Harris? 1:02:00 How to contact Carlos

Twitter: https://twitter.com/akaCarioca
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csiqueira/
Trailblazer Community: https://success.salesforce.com/_ui/core/userprofile/UserProfilePage?u=0053000000CSisTAAT&fId=0D53A00003TvRE9SAN&tab=sfdc.ProfilePlatformFeed

1:03:00 Closing Credit with Robin Dupre intern (https://twitter.com/robindupre) 1:04:30 Closing Music 1:05:00 Post Music Gag Links mentioned in the show

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Working with Salesforce Mobile, Support, and Product Managers with Cheryl Feldman WizardCast 65 Mar 05, 2018

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Do you ever have to call Salesforce Support? Do you wish you could make Salesforce mobile a better experience for your users? Would you like to talk with a Salesforce Product Manager?

Then you want to listen to this episode as Mark and Brian talk with Cheryl Feldman. Cheryl Feldman is an MVP, User Group Leader, Admin for a large Enterprise company and so much more.

You may have read about Cheryl when Trailhead featured her story: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazers/cheryl-feldman

There's even a better chance that you've seen her photo on the login page.

Show Overview

00:01 A very dramatic retraction about Dashboards 01:28 Introduction 02:25 Joke from Amy Oplinger https://twitter.com/SalesforceAmy/status/966836693192998912 03:00 Public Service Announcement due to Budget restraints 04:18 Fake Sponsor: Podcast anonymous 04:35 Libsyn Affiliate: 1 month free with promo code: podmagic 05:17 Coffee Break AI on a poor adopted Enterprise platform Https://twitter.com/petercoffee/status/963129134078615553 09:06 Introducing Trailblazer Cheryl Feldman 10:00 Only the best bosses... Happy place on earth 10:47 Mobile escapades 12:48 Lightning now and shout out to Michael Orr https://twitter.com/orrdeal 14:50 Mobile only page? 17:45 Specific Lightning Components to make Salesforce Mobile amazing 19:00 Flows in mobile with the Flow Action 21:44 Shameless plug: Using Flows in Actions https://thewizardnews.com/2017/10/18/favorite-salesforce-winter18-feature-flow-object-action/ 22:45 Cheryl's list for must need for mobile: Mobile only pages and login as other user on mobile 28:44 Interacting with Salesforce Support 29:14 Cheryl's tips for interacting with Salesforce support 32:55 Simulator on Chrome for mobile 38:00 Working with Salesforce Product Managers 41:00 Product Managers in the Trailblazer community 48:25 We Love & Miss you Shawna Wolverton. 53:20 What one question would you ask Parker Harris? 55:43 The First time Cheryl met Parker Harris 56:45 And now you're on login Page/How she found out she was on the login page 58:47 If Brian & Mark were Sesame street's Bert and Earnie... who is who? 49:42 When Marc & Parker are on stage at Dreamforce, which WizardCast host is Marc and which is Parker? 1:02:32 Why Cheryl feels unworthly of being on the podcast. It's a Star Wars thing. 1:04:20 Star Trek Vs Star Wars, Salesforce vs Microsoft Dynamics 1:05:20 A girl things Mark & Brian are super cool BECAUSE we watched Star Wars 1:07:35 Closing Credits and Kudos to Jean Hawthorn as intern via @WizardCast_pod 1:08:00 Tell us your ideas, your questions for Parker! Submit Questions for Parker Harris: http://bit.ly/parkerquestions Submit Ideas:http://bit.ly/ideahighlight 1:09:19 After Credits Scene

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Insights from Trailhead Ranger Jessica Murphy Feb 13, 2018

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This episode of the WizardCast we're joined by Jessica Murphy. Jessica shares her Trailblazer story.

She's and Admin/Developer that started 2017 with no certifications. By November she's gotten 5 certs! She's also a Trailhead Ranger with 125 badges. Did I mention she also has a Master's in Education?

We talk about how someone with a Master's in Education became a Salesforce Admin & Developer. Jessica shares her incredible story of going from no certs and no badges to a Trailhead Ranger with 5 certifications.

We also discuss the visibility of Women in Technology, How the Salesforce community is special, and Jessica reveals evil secrets of using her Master's in Education in her Salesforce career.

Show Overview

00:01 A squirrel's ransom 01:28 Intro Music 01:53 Setting the Atmosphere Joke 03:02 We got Nothing 03:56 Affiliate Libsyn, Free month with promocode podmagic 04:43 Jessica Murphy Introduction 05:40 Jessica corrects Brian 06:41 How far a master's with education gets you 08:50 User Group Meeting, Chris Duarte, and a hoodie act as the hand of fate 09:40 SouthEast Dreamin' and Mary Scotton continue the push 10:14 2016 starts Trailhead Badges, 2017 Certifications with Destination Success 12:20 The power and uniqueness of the Salesforce community 13:40 Visibility of Women in Tech 15:10 Not just helping out, it's community of lifting each other up 15:45 Brian Admits he has a problem with Trailhead 16:40 Credit to Salesforce Saturday 18:00 Rob Alexander encourages certifications 19:50 Certifcation Celebration Dance 20:50 Jessica reveals her evil secrets with her Master's in Education 23:40 More evil secrets 25:05 Brian requests to learn how to use education principles in our jobs 31:10 Jessica's recommendations on how you too can excel with Salesforce 34:30 Finding a Mentor 37:00 Close Out & Rachel Watson intern 37:51 What 1 question would you ask to Parker Harris? Submit http://bit.ly/parkerquestions 38:00 What idea from IdeaExchange should we highlight? Submit http://bit.ly/ideahighlight 39:45 Jessica confirms that Mark was wrong about Dreamforce

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Salesforce Spring 18 Highlights Jan 30, 2018

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Spring is nearly here! Some believe the first evidence is the robin, but they are wrong. It's the Spring release of Salesforce!

The release notes are over 450 pages long. Don't bother reading them, listen as Mark and Brian cover some of the highlights and chat about implications.

00:00:01 Brian experiences a strange mirror xfiles 00:02:05 Joke that won't let you down 00:02:25 Correcting episode count 00:03:30 Daniel Stange convinces us to do advertising 00:03:50 Libsyn Podcast Hosting Affiliate mention. 1 free month with promo code "podmagic" 00:05:26 Join the Salesforce UX Research, signup to help shape the future of Salesforce bit.ly/salesforceux 00:07:10 start of Salesforce Spring 18 discussion 00:07:57 Mark starts reading all 400+ pages of the release notes 00:09:00 GDPR - The new EU privacy laws 00:10:42 Individual Object for GDPR support 00:12:40 GDPR Trailhead module: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/modules/european-union-privacy-law-basics/units/get-to-know-eu-privacy-law 00:14:00 List View Tabs on a user-by-user basis 00:15:44 Lightning UI Theme and Branding 00:16:50 Surveys! Free in Health Cloud otherwise paid add on 00:19:00 Critical updates! New URl Format 00:22:00 Critical Updates! Sharing with AuraEnabled Components 00:22:48 Critical Updates! Removing Instance Names in URLS 00:23:00 Critical Updates! Console change 00:23:40 Critical Updates! API Access for Container access revoked 00:24:33 Accordian Components 00:25:30 Component Visibility Updates with running user 00:26:45 Dashboard Component Embed them everywhere! 00:27:10 Branding... branding... force.com RIP Long Live Lightning Platform. 00:30:50 Lightning Report Builder updates! 00:33:30 Search for report and dashboard folders 00:34:00 Default color scheme of Dashboards makes Mark blue 00:34:20 Einstein Activity Capture. Marks predicts its future cost 00:36:45 Default to not create Opportunity on Lead Convert 00:37:58 Campaign updates for Lightning Experience 00:38:05 Pardot Campaign and Salesforce Campaign get fuzzy 00:39:30 Opportunity Splits are in Lightning Experience 00:39:45 Text improvements on Opportunity Product selector 00:40:28 Quick Action Emails can have predefined values for To, CC, bCC 00:41:00 Articles can be embeded in the case emails 00:41:15 More service cloud, marcos, knowledge, chat and more 00:42:50 Mass Quick Actions up to 200 items on Cases, Leads, and Custom Objects 00:43:25 Community Updates including Journey Builder 00:45:20 Flow! Upload Files! 00:45:58 Lightning Components in Flow! Shot heard around the world 00:49:38 Turn off the header and footer in Flow 00:50:00 Flow Stages 00:51:00 Flow Actions General Available! 00:51:44 Critical Update in Flow! Execute all Auto-Launch Flow when invoked in Bulk 00:58:28 Pilot: Lightning Flow for Service 01:03:20 We finally close the episode 01:05:30 After music banter

Quips about Salesforce Quip Jan 15, 2018

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(2:50) Terrible Joke

(3:30)WizardCast_pod Twitter Handle. We also announce that WizardCast podcast is now available on Spotifiy and TuneIn

(05:00) Brian and Mark talk about how thankful they are for Mike Gerholdt's support and how we will miss him on the Salesforce Admins podcast.

(06:43) No Sponsor Spot - Happy New Year!

(07:19)Brian and Mark talk about Salesforce's acquisition of Attic Labs. You can read about the purchase at TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/salesforce-acquires-attic-labs-the-startup-behind-decentralized-database-noms/

(09:00)We talk about Salesforce's quip product (not the toothbrush) and how we think it compares to Google docs. We also talk about how we use the feature.

(21:10) One with Ninjas ... 3 electric chiminey

(24:10)We also mention Elements.cloud will have one of the first live apps for Quip. (Want to sponsor Ian Gotts?) https://elements.cloud/elements-and-quip/

(27:40)Changes to theWizardnews.com

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WizardCast Happy Holidays 2017 Dec 21, 2017

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WizardCast Happy Holidays 2017 Episode 58 Click logo to subscribe RSS Feed https://thewizardnews.com/feed/wizardcast Happy Holidays 2017 We want to wish everyone a happy winter holiday. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyful Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, and any other holiday you celebrate that I didn't include. This year, the Salesforce Team beat us to the bunch for parody […]

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WizardCast Imposters! Imposters Everywhere! with Amy Oplinger Dec 12, 2017

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WizardCast Imposters! Imposters Everywhere! with Amy Oplinger Episode 57 Click logo to subscribe RSS Feed https://thewizardnews.com/feed/wizardcast Imposter Syndrome with Amy Oplinger Amy Oplinger hold 4 Salesforce certifications, is a Salesforce MVP, and a freelance consultant. She's also both a WIT and Non-Profit User Group Leader. At Dreamforce 2017, she gave a presentation on Imposter Syndrome. […]

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