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I've enjoyed using Connect for Outlook, but my new laptop has Windows 7 and Connect for Outlook will not work.  I hope you'll make this available soon.

It would be great if individual users could choose their own salesforce skin color. That way regardless of the default color everyone could set it to something that is comfortable for their eyes.

I'd love to be able to create one dashboard that could suffice for all reps in a region or globally - i.e., instead of giving them a view from their one common executive's perspective, the one dashboard would instead update based on their particular records they were allowed to see.

For example, VP of Sales dashboard might currently show a bar chart that shows 650 leads broken out into 6 statuses. I'd like to set the Running User to "current user" instead of "VP of Sales" - so my proposed dashboard would show a particular rep in that region their 29 leads and the 3 applicable statuses those leads are in, instead of the overall perspective that might not be so relevant to them.

(Note that the current "static" Running User option should stay available too, as it's good for times when competition is desired.)

Our sales reps have meetings where they could literally speak to thirty contacts or have tasks where they could involve 30 contacts. We too, want to track that activity. We want our reps to get credit for all thirty of those talks but we all know our sales people, they don’t want to take 20 to thirty minutes to log the same activity 30 different times. Having the ability to clone activities, tasks and events, and change the contact would be a huge improvement. The best solution would be the ability to add contacts in the same fashion you can add contact roles to an opportunity. This would mean that when running a report for the rep for their activity on the account this activity would show 30 times, once for each contact. The history would also show on the contact record. I cannot tell you how much easier this would make our reps lives!

It would be good to add a sorting step when creating reports. This will help put a default sort fields for the output. Right now, you have to run the report, then click on a field to do the sort for you. It's a waste of step, time and process since you have to do it two times. There are reports that needs to be sorted moreover, some reports are better presented with sort on more that two fields. By having this extra step, you can define sort fields and make reports a lot better.

widescreen monitors at 1650x1050 resolutions could probably fit 5-6 columns of dashboard components, why limit it to 3?? expand option to up to 6 columns

Dashboard components based on Summary Reports should show a "Grand Total" row, just like the source reports do. It's a burden to users to have to drill down into the report (or open Calculator) just to get a total value.

It would be great to be able to drag & drop report columns instead of always having to go into Customize; reorder the columns; regenerate the report.

One week in, it is already difficult to take a quick look at Chatter and find only those items I need to see at that moment.  I would like to have a simple drop down box or checkbox at the top of the page to filter the Chats I see to one type of Chat.  For example, I may want to quickly see updates only on Opportunities I am following without having to find them among all of the People status updates and their related Comments.  Alternatively, I may want to filter out one or more types of Chats, like removing all of the People status updates.

I downloaded Google Chrome for an entirely different reason, then as i was moving around the web on multiple screens i inadvertently opened salesforce within the web browser Google Chrome. How can i tell you that to click on the lead tab in firefox from the home tab takes 6.4 seconds as an average 10 attempts. Google Chrome opened the leads tab in less than 1.5 seconds everytime. When your day is time and time is money this is a significant difference. Please add Google Chrome access fully so i can use emails and templates etc... Peter Sydney Australia

With so many Standard and Custom Report Types it can be extremely difficult to teach users how to "fish" and create reports for themselves. Have you ever tried troubleshooting a report someone has handed you when you have no idea which report type they started with? Let's make it simple and put the name of the report type somewhere in the report wizard, or at the very least on each report. Yeah, I know, you could just send the example report to everyone and their Uncles, letting them deal with it. But really, wouldn't it be better to let them see the report type and say, "Okay, so THIS report type ain't got the fields I need."

I would like to submit a real 'advanced search' request. The current advanced search is not advanced at all. It only provides a single field that searches throughout every field. The only advanced option is that you can select in which information you search (e.g. cases). In general, this results in far too many records.

I would like to see an option where you can search in any combination of fields. So if I want to search for something in a case, I want to be able to search in the case subject and/or description and/or status and/or account and/or etc. etc. This should of course also be possible for all information (accounts, contacts etc).

We used AccPac before SalesForse. That system had an advanced search screen for each entity, and you were also able to customize the thix screen. It also allowed you to save your search criteria for re-use.

I now created a 'Search cases' report as a workaround, because that allows me to specify very advanced filters. The 'bad' thing with this is that you have to run the report and then edit the filter. It would be great if the advanced filter options from reports could be added to the advanced search screen.

Do not hard code the Object (see above image) when creating Workflow Field Updates. Allow administrators to choose a field to pass based on a relationship (lookup or master detail). For example, a Workflow Rule based on Case would be allowed to have a Workflow Field Update change a Contact field for the Contact record associated with the Case.

 Usually, developers use debug statements where a complex or lengthy logic is written. But unfortunately the logs ends up showing Maximum log size limit and we do not see all the debug statements added in the code. This is because the logs show so much of extra information that a developer is not concerned about. The most important lines that a developer wants to see are the System.debug statements that they have added. 

we do not have any filter option where ONLY System.debug statements are listed and nothing else. Please come up with this filter option.

Automatically give warning message when you are entering a duplicate account or contact. Add the "Find Duplicates" function currently available on Leads to the Account and Contact pages
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Salesforce partner CRMfusion has a product called Dupe Blocker that provides this functionality. Dupe Blocker is available for 30-day free trial and is competitively priced. Please see the Dupe Blocker page on CRMFusions site for more information: http://crmfusion.com/dupeblocker/ .

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Other feature Ideas in the comment thread for this idea have been moved to new Idea posts. If you are interested in any of the following features, please follow the links to read about and vote on them:

• Data cleansing tool for duplicate records - http://sites.force.com/ideaexchange/ideaView?c=09a30000000D9xt&id=08730000000Br9AAAS
• Find duplicates on-demand for any object - http://sites.force.com/ideaexchange/ideaView?c=09a30000000D9xt&id=08730000000BrFNAA0
• Duplicate detection on records from external sources - http://sites.force.com/ideaexchange/ideaView?c=09a30000000D9xt&id=08730000000BqfLAAS
• Merge Any Object - http://sites.force.com/ideaexchange/ideaView?c=09a30000000D9xt&id=08730000000BrPeAAK

To reduce scrolling and keep the contacts page as compact as possible it would be nice to have 3 columns (or even more) to display in the page layout. We use check boxes quite a bit and they could easily be displayed in more than 2 columns to save space.

I'd like Salesforce to provide a native application (or mobile web page/interface) which allows Salesforce Administrators to perform routine system/user changes via a mobile device such as an iPhone. Several examples of this would include resetting a user's password, deactivating a user, changing a user's Role or Profile, modifying an entire Role or Profile, and monitoring system logs. Salesforce administrators sometimes called upon to make changes quickly, when a laptop and Internet connection are not immediately available. In most cases though, a mobile phone is in hand. An immediate change could be made with such a device using the existing connection. A real life example for me happened last week. I had turned off visibility to the Cases tab for all users but administrators and operations. Our users now use a Visualforce page to submit cases. I had mistakenly taken the tab away from one group of superusers who needed access to the standard case tab for other reasons. The problem was, I was aboard public transportation, with no laptop at hand. I was, however, able to activate the IP address of my iPhone, log into Salesforce, and add the Cases tab back to that Profile, all through Safari, on the iPhone, immediately. They could once again, continue their work. While some functions such as the one I described above can be done in Safari on the iPhone, it's not optimized for it in any way, and the browser will sometimes crash. Other administrative features such as the new Enhanced Page Layout Editor, I don't really expect to work via the iPhone, but I tried anyway. No real surprise, it was not able to function. There are however, some very valuable functions that could be made available to administrators via such an application/interface. While I realize there are far fewer administrators of Salesforce than there are users, this feature could provide a great benefit to at least one person at 51,800 organizations. One final request on such a feature though would be that it not be a licensed feature which requires a Salesforce Mobile license. This feature should not be tied to the Mobile client licensing. Many organizations which may never purchase Salesforce Mobile would gain from this feature being given to their administrator.

Sometimes when reporting, we'd like to be able to report on a parent object and multiple child objects, rather than straight down the parent-child-grandchild chain. In our company, child contracts are produced from parents opportunities. Our finance team want to be able to look at the contracts and the Opportunity Products in the same report to allow them to work out what products are being sold for each contract we produce. Could this not be a possibility or is there a way to link all three objects together to allow for combined reporting?

It would be really nice if a user could have multiple profiles. We have run into an issue where we have a group of call center users that have the standard Call Center Profile. But now 5 of those users need to be able to add/modify solutions. So now i have to have a Call Center Profile and a Call Center w/ Solutions Profile. Now if one of the sales users needs to be able edit solutions, I now have to have 4 different profiles: 1. Call Center Profile 2. Call Center w/ Solutions Profile 3. Sales Profile 4. Sales w/ Solutions Profile It would be ideal if you could have a Call Center Profile, Sales Profile, and then a Solutions Profile. Then based on the multiple profiles the user will have access to additional items. And be able to have any combination so you are managing fewer profiles. Especially since you can't have a description for a profile.