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Overview

Brobench is a Salesforce productivity toolkit. It is installed as a Chrome/Edge extension. It is a secure, high performing, well-designed, and easily accessible without much configuration.

It is intended for following Salesforce audience.

  • Admins
  • Developers
  • Data Analysts
  • Business Analysts
  • Power Users

What's up with the name?​

Brobench is a portmanteau of Browser Workbench, homage to Salesforce Developer Workbench, which helped us all get going many times.

Why should I use Brobench?​

Here are some of the reasons we think you would want to give Brobench a try.

  • It is really an all-in-one extension. It can replace at least 5–10 other extensions.
  • It has many productive features which will save you at least 30 minutes per day
  • It is well-designed with easy-to-use information architecture and UI
  • It is secure by design. It is one of the core, not a side effect, features of Brobench. App doesn't connect to any third-party cloud services to process your data. It would connect to Datasert license servers, but your data is never transmitted there.
  • We have 10+ years of experience of building great products for Salesforce, like Realfire
  • We are here to provide you support, add/enhance features, and continue to the application

Install/Setup​

This page walks you through how to install the extension and initial usage. You can also go through this short video guide.

Supported Browsers​

Brobench is a browser extension that adheres to Chrome Extension Manifest v3, and it is supported in the following browsers.

  • Chrome Latest
  • Edge Latest

If you use Firefox or Safari, we may extend the support later depending on the adoption of the extension.

Launch App​

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Except Logins, most of the other Brobench features needs API access to connect to Salesforce. If you do not have API access, discuss with your Admin team and see if you can get access to it.

Launch the app by clicking on Brobench Logo on the right edge of your Salesforce UI. It should open the App Popup. You can also Cmd+Click or Ctrl+Click to open the app directly in full page mode.

If you are not in Salesforce Pages, for ex., to log in to Salesforce, then you need to launch it from the browser toolbar (Pin Extension for easy access).

UI Overview​

Here is how the Brobench UI layout looks like

View Full Page​

Brobench by default is shown as a popup with in the page, which is great for quick peek into Record data, or quickly edit the records. However, if you are using Brobench to query and other things, opening the app in full page view gives you the complete screen real estate and view more data without scrolling.

There are two ways to open the app in full page view.

  • Ctrl+Click or Cmd+Click the Brobench Icon in Salesforce Page

  • Click on the Full Page icon within the Brobench Popup

View Help​

We understand that it is hard to get to know new application/tool. We are here to help and provide you with details necessary to get familiar and get on your with day.

Click on the Help Icon in the Global Actions to open Help dialog.

It should below dialog with appropriate help. If related help is not shown, search for the topic name which should bring related help articles.

Activation​

Make sure you have installed Brobench from Chrome Web Store.

By default, free features are enabled when you install the extension from Web store. If you would like to give full features a try, please email us at support@datasert.com and will send an activation code free of charge, which would be valid for 6 months. After that, we can extend again as appropriate.

To Activate goto App Menu -> Support -> Activation, enter the Email and Activation Code. It should show the dialog below once it is activated. If you want to remove activation, click on Remove Activation

Next Steps​

You have installed Brobench, activated, and have a brief idea how to launch the app. Next, go through the Modules related help to understand