Comments on: 100 Free Force.com licenses on your normal Salesforce account

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:43:43 +0000

D'oh! It appears they're no longer offering the free 100 force.com licenses.

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:53:22 +0000

@SDev “Does the free edition allow custom objects to be shared among users?”

Yes, custom objects are available to ‘free edition’ users. You can clone the “Free Edition” profile — just click the ‘New’ button and copy the existing Free User Profile, then give whatever permissions you want. Finally, assign the user(s) to that new Profile.

By: SDev

SDev — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:57:08 +0000

Does the free edition allow custom objects to be shared among users?

I just signed up for the force.com free edition.
As an admin, I can create custom objects, but the other “free” users are having trouble seeing them. I’ve set the custom objects to “Deployed” and set all fields to visible.
When I go into setup->manage users->profiles, I’m unable to change the custom object permission to “view all” and “modify all”. Can free users access custom objects built by others?

By: Guy W

Guy W — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:03:23 +0000

‘@Guy The free licenses are only good for users — they won’t give you Admin access.’

Thanks E….

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:58:28 +0000

@Guy The free licenses are only good for users — they won’t give you Admin access.

By: Guy W

Guy W — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:44:10 +0000

Question for you.

The 100 ‘Free Licenses’ are they still available?

When I purchase licenses – should I count all users or just the developers?
Thanks!
Guy

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:45:51 +0000

@Cindy

If you add the (paid for, not free) Force.com licenses to your existing Salesforce instance, then they can access your Contacts and Accounts. You still only have the one Salesforce system, you’ve just added licenses.

If you obtain the “100 Free Force.com” version on its own, then you have none of your standard data.

By: Cindy Freeman

Cindy Freeman — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:14:50 +0000

If you purchase the Force.com licenses to access accounts and contacts, are these the same accounts and contacts in your existing Salesforce instance? Or do you need to use SalesForce to SalesForce to share the same data?

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:01:27 +0000

@lyw: The free accounts, if requested in this manner, are added to your existing Salesforce instance. However, these Free accounts cannot access standard CRM objects (such as Accounts and Contacts). You can purchase Force.com licenses that are able to access these objects, but they’re not free.

You could try and get tricky, I guess, by having a Free account call a private API that runs under a ‘paid’ account, which would give access to standard objects. However, that’s a bit of a mess.

By: lyw

lyw — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:10:36 +0000

When you sign up this free 100 users with existing CRM accounts (PE), are they using the same contact and account DB? Or Force.com will have it’s own contact and account DB separated from existing SF CRM?
If they share the same DB, will I be able to update my SF CRM (PE) accounts and contacts from Force.com API?

Thank you for your help in advance!