{"id":16397,"date":"2023-10-27T07:11:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T07:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigworks.co\/?p=16397"},"modified":"2023-10-27T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T07:13:11","slug":"16397-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigworks.co\/16397-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce communities and file storage, everything you need to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What are salesforce communities?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salesforce Communities represents a platform and suite of tools provided by Salesforce, enabling organizations to establish private online communities for external stakeholders and employees, encompassing clientele, partners, workforce members, and other pertinent stakeholders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These communities are strategically designed to encourage engagement and facilitate autonomous support delivery within a securely maintained online workspace. It is common practice for enterprises to harness Salesforce Communities as a conduit for building connections with external demographic segments. Key attributes of the Salesforce Communities platform encompass:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roles and Permissions: You can define different user roles and assign permissions to control who can access various sections of the community and what actions they can perform.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Content Management: Communities allow you to share content such as articles, documents, and videos with your community members. It supports knowledge bases, FAQs, and other types of resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Collaboration Tools: Salesforce Communities include collaboration features like discussion boards, forums, and chat capabilities that enable members to interact with each other and with your organization&#8217;s representatives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Integration: Communities can integrate seamlessly with Salesforce CRM and other Salesforce products, as well as with third-party applications and data sources.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With features like these, no wonder companies and businesses flock to make use of Salesforce communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Limitations in document storage for Salesforce Communities<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, even with all the features readily available, Salesforce communities have the following disadvantages:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Data Storage Limits: Salesforce has file storage limits based on your organization&#8217;s edition, including documents uploaded to Salesforce Communities. This requires you to purchase additional data from time to time.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Usually, the file size is limited to 25 MB while uploading. And many types of file formats are not even supported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2. User access: Salesforce only allows a specific number of users to access and upload documents to a community. This means for additional people, license&#8217;s are required, making file sharing and viewing restrictive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, settings are required to who can control the access, edit files and share them externally.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3. Native version control: Salesforce doesn\u2019t offer any control over files within communities, which calls for the need for your own document system.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This also brings other limitations, especially for documents within salesforce communities, like API requests, storage operations, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a04. File size: Salesforce communities can also be slow to load and face a negative impact on performance when faced with large-sized files. This again is a restriction as some files with graphics would be inevitably greater in size.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 5. Cost: Once you take the storage limits, version restrictions, user license&#8217;s and file size into account, you will most likely need to upgrade your account, and none of this is cost-effective.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that we\u2019ve discussed some disadvantages of file storage in salesforce communities, let\u2019s discuss how these can be easily countered:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>DocuVault:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s your one-stop solution to every limitation we\u2019ve discussed above.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quick and easy upload: Instead of one at a time (typically in Salesforce) you can upload multiple files simultaneously. Bulk upload or drag and drop, take your pick!\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s more, you can bid adieu to the 25 MB size limit, or actually, forget limits altogether. Upload as many files as you want, no matter how big.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02. User access: While sharing documents in Salesforce is restrictive<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DocuVault has a very powerful and advanced file permission feature. This allows to configure permissions at a very granular level.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s more, once shared, the owner is notified of the activity, eliminating the worry of version control, user access, and emails altogether. As opposed to Salesforce Attachment, DocuVault has the Salesforce Record sharing Model (Roles, Profiles and Sharing rules) giving Admins more flexibility on access permissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a03. Version control: As DocuVault uses AWS S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob storage as the backend storage platform, you can Integrate and share documents between multiple systems, like Salesforce as well as third-party applications (Heroku, Communities, SAP, Dynamics etc).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04. Cost Efficient: Limitless file storage actually comes cheaper than Salesforce file storage. DocuVault uses Amazon S3 as the storage platform with Storage Costs starting as low as $ 0.0030 Per GB\/Month! Obviously, the better option.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Want to find the perfect document management system that will help you make your community work? Try out DocuVault. DocuVault helps customers and partners can view and upload documents using Salesforce Communities in a hassle free and secure manner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are salesforce communities? 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