Salesforce Admin/Dev Essentials

A discussion started by Tim Wiech led me and quite a number of friends from the Salesforce Ohana to discuss the very tools each dev or admin should know and probably use most of the day. It took us roughly 2 hours to share our thoughts and come up with even more and even better ideas. But eventually, we had the list to end all lists: Salesforce Admin/Dev Essentials (use the comments to share your ideas)

Browser Extensions

• Boostr for Salesforce (Chrome)
• Salesforce Organizer
  • Chrome
  • Firefox
• Grey Tab (Chrome)
• Salesforce Inspector (Chrome)
• Changeset Helper (Chrome)

AppExchange Packages

• Declarative Lookup Rollup Summaries Tool
  • AppExchange
  • GitHub
• Home of just too many great packages: Douglas Ayers’ repositories
  • Github
• Some Magic from David Litton
• Metadata Search
• Config Workbook
• Qandor FieldTrip
• The Permissioner
• Form Assembly
• Octopus

Swiss Army Knives

• Workbench
• Perm Comparator
• SF Toolkit
• Schema Puker
• Field Creator

SFDX

• Salesforce DX
  The Salesforce CLI
• SFDX Plugins
  • Wade Wegner’s WAW
  • Shane McLaughlin’s MSM

IDEs

• IntelliJ IDEA CE
• Illuminated Cloud
• JetForcer
• The Welkin Suite 
• VS Code

Documentation and Process Design

• elements.cloud/
• Lucid Charts (and SchemaPuker exports)
• Avonnicreator (Lightning Experience Wireframe tool)

Versioning and Deployment

• bluecanvas.io
• AutoRabit
• Gearset (Free version allows only test execution)
• Talend (There’s a free edition)

Data Integration and Backup

• Copy Storm
• Jitterbit Cloud Data Loader
• dataloader.io

Shoutout and thanks to Tim Wiech, who raised the question and Luke Freeland, Medhanie Habte, Szandor Knapp, Mark Adcock and Randi Thompson who contributed and discussed the ideas.