The Eclipse IDE for Salesforce Admins

As a Salesforce system administrator, you may have heard that the Eclipse IDE application can be very helpful for doing certain tasks like:

• Finding out all the places where a custom field / object is used
• Searching for all reports that use a specific custom report type
• Mass-moving reports from one folder to another

However, the Eclipse installation process and user interface are quite intimidating. 

This document will guide you through the installation process and show you how to use Eclipse's features to carry out those tasks.

This guide comes from our consultant David Cheng, a Salesforce MVP and Idealist Consulting all-star. Get to know more about David here. 

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