Salesforce Username Tip
October 7th, 2009
If you are like me you probably have 1.35 million Salesforce usernames. You have usernames for productions orgs, sandboxes, developer orgs, pre-release orgs, partner portals, etc. and they all must be unique. So how do you manage this chaos in a manner that doesn’t drive you insane with password resets and security tokens?
If you are using Gmail or Google Apps there is a easy way to manage your Salesforce usernames using address aliases. For instance, if your email address is coolsalesforceguy@gmail.com, you can add a “+” and some sort of identifier to your Gmail address to create unique email addresses that are delivered to your one Gmail inbox. Therefore, you could do things like:
- coolsalesforceguy+prd@gmail.com
- coolsalesforceguy+sandbox1@gmail.com
- coolsalesforceguy+de7@gmail.com
- coolsalesforceguy+customer1prd@gmail.com
You can then set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox, or forward to another email account.
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Categories: Google, Salesforce
Another neato tip is to create bookmarks with your username encoded in the URL using the following format:
https://login.salesforce.com/?un=username%40domain.com
The %40 encodes the monkey sign. If your browser can manage passwords, you’ll get prompted to save your password and the password should link to this specific URL. Since each org/sandbox you setup will effectively have a different url, you can have different passwords and they will still be remembered separately. I can jump from one org to another without ever touching the keyboard. If you’re willing to forgo security, you can even encode your password with the pw flag in the URL, although its not recommended.
[...] Thanks Jeff Douglas for the great tip! [...]
Wow, I can’t believe I’ve lived all these years without knowing this. Thanks for the tip!
Seems to work if you have your own domain purchased through google as well. This is handy.