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Legacy chat retirement (Messaging for In-App and Web)

Salesforce will retire legacy Chat products (LiveAgent, Salesforce Chat, Embedded Chat, and Service Chat) on February 14, 2026. Below are the editions affected by this retirement.   We can continue using current Chat services and implementations through the announced retirement date. However, all customers will need to migrate to our new Messaging for In-App and

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Leveraging Colored Favicons in Salesforce: Chrome Extension

For individuals like myself who often find themselves juggling numerous tabs simultaneously—perhaps one for sandbox UAT, another for testing, and yet another for client production instances, among others—keeping track of each tab’s purpose can be quite the challenge. However, an effective and efficient solution lies in leveraging favicons. These small but mighty visual cues provide

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Shield Platform Encryption: Deterministic encryption scheme considerations

Shield Platform Encryption offers several types of encryption. Users never see encrypted data because it is encrypted immediately prior to database insertion and decrypted immediately following a database query. These encryption types offer varying levels of security and functionality, allowing organizations to choose the most suitable encryption approach based on their specific requirements and use

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“Safeguarding Secrets with Salesforce Shield Encryption”

Salesforce Shield Encryption is a set of security features offered by Salesforce to help organizations protect their sensitive data within the Salesforce platform. Salesforce Shield Encryption includes the following components: This article focused on platform encryption, which allows us to encrypt data at rest.  “At rest” means any data that’s inactive or stored in files,

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SSO Made Simple: Streamlining Access to Salesforce

Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication method that enables users to access multiple applications with one login and one set of credentials. The below artcile covers the fundamentals of Salesforce Single Sign-On (SSO), exploring implementation steps to configure in your organization to enable third parties as authentication providers to login to Salesforce. For example, logging

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How to send messages to Slack from Marketing Cloud

As we all know, Salesforce Marketing Cloud has many builders and studios to send messages as emails, SMS, and push notifications using Email Studio and Mobile Studio. Also, WhatsApp messages can be sent to subscribers. Recently, with increased popularity, clients are asking for message delivery to the Slack channel. Salesforce has acquired Slack, and there

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How to use date-type fields in the duplicate Matching Rules criteria?

In a typical healthcare or customer-centric organization, individuals’ names, emails, and date of birth are commonly used to identify duplicates. However, many are perplexed by the fact that Salesforce matching rules do not support date fields, which presents a significant drawback in identifying duplicate contacts. How do I get rid of this problem??

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