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Cake day: December 12th, 2023

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  • This is extremely heartfelt, wonderful advice. I’m glad your story has a happy ending. But I can’t imagine a better way to prepare your family. I am going to save this somewhere, for in case I ever need it, because this is exactly the sort of thing I would want to do.

    I also totally get what you mean about your wife and you growing into adulthood together. I have the same thing with my husband. If he were gone, I literally am not sure what I would do in many small parts of my life. I’d adapt eventually, but knowing I’d be struggling with grief in addition to suddenly need to consider a dozen crucial but small things is dizzying to think about.



  • So in Salesforce that IS possible. An admin, using Lightning App, could for example create a filter on some fields so that they’re shown or hidden depending on the value of other fields. It would only be possible using the Lightning App builder since that gives you the most tools–standard page layouts don’t let you filter viewability of values like that. Alternatively, though, you COULD make an “inactive contact” page layout & corresponding record type and just change the record type either manually or using a Flow (or workflow) whenever the contact is marked ‘inactive’.

    EDIT: Your admin can also modify what fields are shown on a Related List. So you can be on Account, looking at related Contacts, and have the Inactive field prominently displayed on that related list, and sortable. Again, this is assuming you operate out of Lightning, not Classic.


  • If you’re talking about users, Salesforce you toggle active/inactive. You actually can’t delete them, unfortunately. If you’re talking about Contacts, there are probably a number of standard, out of the box fields you could use, but a good setup will have a picklist or a checkbox or whatever you want. You can also delete contacts, but it’s a good policy to keep data around for a while and then archive it instead of just deleting stuff straight up.

    Am Salesforce admin. Happy to answer any Salesforce related questions.








  • Let me put things in this perspective.

    It’s not realistic to expect to be able to put trigger warnings for a large population of strangers on the internet. You’re right; when putting it in blanket terms like that, it is silly.

    However, there are two things where you could be mindful of others. The first are talking about highly prevalent and violent topics in detail: rape, csa, domestic abuse springs to mind. Things where you probably either know of, or have heard of, someone suffering long term as a direct result of the trauma these events inflict.

    But if that’s still too broad for you, then you should keep your close friends and family into consideration and talk to them if you know one of them has gone through an extremely difficult life event. If nobody in your personal circle has experienced such things, then like the other commenter said: I’m very happy for you and them. If someone has, then even just saying “Hey do you want a heads up if this topic comes up in our group chat?” is enough. Maybe they’ll say yes. Maybe they’ll say no. But now you know what their wishes are and can act accordingly with respect to that.

    Honestly that’s all people really want, I think.