As an Admin, I always look for tools that make tasks easier. Salesforce itself is a simple tool that make tasks easy but there are few scenarios I experienced are time consuming. One of the org that I worked on had large number of process builders, flows, workflows, validation rules and triggers which I needed to deactivate and activate at certain times for data migration and mass data deletion. One of the tool (Switch) from this toolkit came into use for me for simply disabling and enabling all those automations.
Using custom permissions and custom settings in automations, we can disable/enable all the automations, but that’s not the scenario for me at that time.
I came across this tool from Salesforce MVP and mentor Michelle Hansen.
This Toolkit for Salesforce is a collection of Heroku hosted applications. It contains the following applications:
Access the toolkit here
1. Org Doctor:
This tool provides a report by scanning an org against a set of metrics. Useful for org health checks and getting an idea of org maintenance.
2. Org Compare:
It compares the metadata between two orgs and shows the differences between those two orgs.
3. Data Compare:
It is used to compare data between two orgs.
4. Switch:
It is used to turn on/off the automations(Workflow rules, process builders, flows, validation rules, and triggers) in an org with a simple UI.
5. Schema Lister:
It is used to list all the objects and fields in the org, along with their data types and help text if available. Also provides ability to export to excel (single or multi tabs).
6. Field Creator:
Helps to create many fields on a single page. It saved lot of my time by reducing number of clicks.
7. Package Builder:
I have started using this recently to build a package.xml for ANT migration tool.
8. Code Scanner:
I haven’t used this so far. It scans all the (non-packaged) Apex Classes in your Org to builds a table of where each property, variable and method is used. Useful for cleaning up unused code.
Thank you for Ben Edwards for creating such an awesome tool.
Give it a try, you will love it…
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