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[VIDEO] Speed Up Your Work Using Free Tools

Scraper, SFDC Workbench, and Sublime Text Save You Time

February 5, 2020

How would you like to spend 10x less time in Salesforce doing data entry?

A lot of Salesforce administrators got their start on tooling like "DemandTools," which got acquired and subsequently does a lot of price gouging. The appeal of these was it made data operations fairly point-and-click. The downside is it can be expensive to use tools like these.

So, what do you do if you don't have the budget to outsource handling data that needs to be paired with an external data source? Or how can you spend less on having people do data manipulation that you just sense it could probably be done more easily? What if you had the technical know-how to do it faster and more accurately?

Well, this video was made for those who want to know how to speed up the work that they do. If you've ever grinded through a couple hundred or thousand rows of data manually, hopefully this can make your life a bit easier. Although this video is a couple of years old, it still works... Even though there are even more powerful methods than the ones shown here, I was able to take on mountains more work than I would otherwise have been able to do without these techniques.

How do you handle work that requires you to match Salesforce Ids across objects and external data sources? Leave a comment below!