Salesforce.com Cold Call Greasemonkey script
Want some recent news on your next call's business and competitors? With this script installed, we'll automatically add search links to Hoovers, Google News, Yahoo News, Technorati, YouTube and Wikipedia on your Account pages in Salesforce.com. The query words for your account's company name are built into the links. (Already have Greasemonkey? Get the script now.)
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How does it work ?
- Runs on top of the Saleforce.com Account web page. Doesn't alter the salesforce.com application.
- Injects a tiny bit of javascript every time you pull up a Salesforce.com Account page
- Locates the area to the right of the "Account Detail" header
- Finds the name of the company in the Account Name field
- Builds new html and image links to the news resources and inserts this html in the Account Detail header, on the right
- This script only functions on the Account page
- Has no affect on the rest of the salesforce.com web pages or any other web pages.
- This script only works on the Firefox browser
- This script only affects your local view on your machine. i.e. nobody else sees it this way unless they've also installed the Salesforce Cold Call script. The Salesforce application has no knowledge of this script running on your machine.
- Security is not an issue. You are not providing your salesforce.com password to the script or anything like this. The script only runs on your local browser, and you need to be signed into salesforce.com as usual. This script simply adds the html to the news links.
How do I get it ?
- If you don't have the Greasemonkey Extension installed on your firefox browser, the setup involves 2 steps
1.) Install the Greasemonkey Firefox Extension 2.) Install the Salesforce Cold Call Greasemonkey script (rides on top of the Greasemonkey Extension)
- Open your Firefox browser (PC or Mac), and install the Greasemonkey Firefox extension if you don't already have it. Get that here: Greasemonkey extension. (skip this step if you already have the little monkey in the lower right corner of your firefox screen)
- Be sure the little monkey icon is lit up in the lower right corner of your browser. You can turn Greasemonkey on and off by clicking on this icon.
- Install the Salesforce Cold Call script from here salesforcecoldcall.user.js
- If Greasemonkey is on, it should ask you if you want to install the script, click the "Install" button.
- Goto any Account page in Salesforce.com. You should see the news site's icons similar to the image above.
- Click on any icon-link, and it opens a new page or new tab (depending on your setting) with the search for your company name performed.
- The search query is not wrapped in quotes. You may need to do that on the search results page if you're company's name is to general of a term.
- I suggest you alter your Firefox preferences to open New Page in a New Tab. Else you'll get many new browser windows when using this script. Goto Firefox > Preferences > Tabs.. then click the "a new tab" option. Here is a screenshot on OS X.