This post will read like "inside baseball" for people who are familiar with Salesforce, the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), various iterations of the NPSP over the years, and other automation features in Salesforce. However, if you don't regularly engage in those topics, I hope there's still ideas worth discussing in here! For more than 5 … Continue reading recurring thoughts on recurring donations in the Salesforce NPSP
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Dear Spreadsheet Whisperer: HALP! Unusable Email List Format!
Dear Spreadsheet Whisperer, I am working with a political mobilization org that shared their email list with me so that I could engage their members in the upcoming election. Time to get involved! However, when opened the file with the list of emails, the spreadsheet was oriented landscape style and the emails looked like they … Continue reading Dear Spreadsheet Whisperer: HALP! Unusable Email List Format!
exploring “spoonable hours”
Exploring the intersections of freelancing and fair pricing and disability justice in a very imperfect world
a dilemma in form assembly
How to handle forms with conditional content that are divided into different pages.
5 user onboarding tips from Animal Crossing
This is NOT sponsored by animal crossing (lol) but would I say no... ??? [absolutely, I would say no. This blog is 100% unsponsored and I plan to keep it that way!] For Chanukah, Mr. Spreadsheet Whisperer and I purchased a new videogame device (the kind that you play animal crossing on!!! they don't need my help … Continue reading 5 user onboarding tips from Animal Crossing
my internet habits are changing
I'm experimenting with Notion and Reddit and some new strategies for productivity management (ugh) ... and having a great time doing it!
demystifying the INSUFFICIENT ACCESS ON CROSS REFERENCE ENTITY error in salesforce
This Reddit commenter says it all: "Insufficient access rights on cross-reference id? Could mean a permissions issue, could mean the record is deleted, could mean the id was wrong. Big pain." In this post, I detail 3 scenarios that have caused the Insufficient Access error, and how I debugged them.
I’m learning text banking!
Playing with three vendors for mass social justice SMS texting!
How to view a Lightning Web Component (lwc) in VS Code for beginners
Follow these 7 steps to view the underlying code files for an LWC on your local computer! This took me about 2 hours the first time (including troubleshooting) but it really should be much faster! Remember, if I can do it, you can do it! I've written so so so so many blog posts for … Continue reading How to view a Lightning Web Component (lwc) in VS Code for beginners
did ella baker have a rolodex? pt 2
What can today's data managers and activists learn from how Ella Baker managed contact data for SCLC and SNCC?