Setting up the users

To get more out of Salesforce, we have to allow our business users to access Salesforce. For this, a system administrator has to set up his or her user account. Before setting up a user account, the system administrator needs to gather basic information about users and their preferences to fill out a few mandatory fields. These fields are as follows:

  • Last Name: This is the user's last name.
  • Alias Name: Salesforce automatically creates an alias name for you. It is the combination of the first character of your first name and the last four characters of your last name.
  • Email: This is the e-mail address of the user (it is used by Salesforce to send notifications).
  • Username: This is in the format of an e-mail address.
  • Nickname: This ...

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