Life of the Salesforce Admin

This is life, as an admin.

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When a user says they need a field to be both required... AND optional.

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When, in the middle of an all-night deployment, you discover that you have to manually recreate 50+ fields because someone else’s code won’t allow your change set to deploy successfully.

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When a user who never offered an opinion during any phase of development or testing pipes up after you've deployed a change and says “that’s not going to work for me.” Uh..... (via GIPHY)

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The relationship between an admin and users. (At least, sometimes it feels this way.)

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When you have a speaking roll at Dreamforce.

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When receiving a call to help a user.

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When you don't have the budget to go to Dreamforce.

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Right after you say "sure, I can totally do that in Salesforce. It'll take like 5 minutes." And you realize it's not possible with standard functionality.

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Friday afternoon, after a long de-duping session.

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When you create a complex formula, click "Check Syntax" and get the "No syntax errors in merge fields or functions" message.