Salesforce Simplified: A Faster Way to Work Inside Your Salesforce Org

Salesforce is incredibly powerful. But sometimes the hardest part of working in Salesforce isn't building something.

It's finding something.

You know an Apex class was changed this morning. You know someone modified a Flow. You need to find a field, check a debug log, identify who changed a configuration, or build a package.xml for a deployment.

And then you leave the page you're working on.

You open Setup.

You search.

You click through menus.

You run queries.

You come back.

For a small question, you've taken a long trip.

Salesforce Simplified was built to remove that trip.

It puts a small launcher directly inside your Salesforce org. Hover over it and a panel opens with the tools you normally need to leave your current page for.

No separate application. No new account. No external server.

Just a faster way to work with the org you're already inside.

Everything you need, without leaving the page

Salesforce Simplified gives you a single place to explore the metadata and operational information in your org.

You can browse:

• Apex classes and triggers

• Lightning Web Components

• Aura bundles

• Flows and Flow versions

• Custom objects and fields

• Page layouts

• Validation rules

• Buttons and links

• Record types

• Custom Metadata Types

• Custom Labels

• Email Templates

• Static Resources

• Custom Applications

• Tabs

• Permission Sets

• Named Credentials

• Connected Apps

• And many other metadata types

The list isn't a hard-coded menu.

Salesforce Simplified discovers the metadata types exposed by your own org, so the panel reflects what your org actually has.

That matters when working across different Salesforce environments.

"What did I change?" and "What did everyone change?"

Every metadata list is split into two views:

Yours — the most recently created or modified components associated with you.

Whole Org — the most recently changed components across the organization.

This solves two very different problems.

You might ask:

What did I change this morning?

Or:

What did someone change that could have caused this problem?

You shouldn't need a different workflow for each question.

Each result links directly to the relevant Salesforce record, with contextual actions such as viewing, editing, downloading source, checking field-level security, or cloning where supported.

Search the entire org

Recent components are useful until the component you're looking for was last modified six months ago.

That's where Search All comes in.

Search across the selected metadata type and increase the result limit when necessary — up to 500, 1,000, or 2,000 records.

You can also use Navigate by Users to see who has been changing a particular type of metadata and quickly narrow the results to their work.

This is especially useful when investigating deployments, troubleshooting configuration changes, or helping another developer find something they believe has disappeared.

Work as another user

Sometimes you don't want to see your recent work.

You want to see someone else's.

Salesforce Simplified lets you switch the user being viewed. Your "recently changed by me" lists then become that user's lists.

Nothing is changed in Salesforce.

You're simply changing the perspective from which the extension reports activity.

That makes it useful for:

• Deployment investigations

• Production support

• Reviewing another developer's work

• Troubleshooting missing components

• Understanding recent changes made by a colleague

Debug logs without the Setup round trip

Debug logs are another common reason developers jump into Setup.

Salesforce Simplified brings them into the same panel.

Filter logs by:

• Operation

• Status

• Application

• User

Then open the log directly in Salesforce.

You can also delete individual logs or bulk-delete the logs currently displayed.

Bulk deletion is deliberately explicit: the extension tells you how many logs are going to be removed and whose logs they are before proceeding.

If some deletions fail, you get the failure count and the reasons rather than a generic success message.

Build package.xml while you browse

One of the most useful parts of Salesforce Simplified is the package builder.

As you browse metadata, simply select the components you want.

The extension continuously builds your package.xml.

You can select components across multiple metadata types, select an entire list, review the running manifest, and edit it manually.

Salesforce metadata naming can be surprisingly unforgiving.

For example, an object's custom field needs the object prefix:

Account.Rating__c

A validation rule is represented differently:

Opportunity.Close_Date_In_Future

A layout uses the object's name and layout name:

Account-Account Layout

And certain metadata types have their own platform-specific naming rules.

Salesforce Simplified handles these details when generating the manifest.

Retrieve the actual package

Building the manifest is only half the problem.

Salesforce Simplified can also retrieve the package from the org.

The result is a real ZIP containing the metadata folder structure and -meta.xml files.

That means you can take the retrieved package and:

• Deploy it with Salesforce CLI

• Use it with Ant

• Commit it to source control

• Inspect it locally

• Share it with another developer

If Salesforce cannot include a requested component, the extension reports which components were affected and why.

That's important because a package that appears complete but silently excludes something can create much bigger deployment problems later.

You can also download the package.xml separately.

Export what you're looking at

Any list can be copied or downloaded as raw JSON.

The exported data represents the records returned by Salesforce's API, without the extension's internal bookkeeping fields.

That makes it easy to:

• Paste results into a script

• Attach them to a support ticket

• Analyze them in a spreadsheet

• Keep an investigation record

• Process them with another tool

Know what is happening in your org

Salesforce Simplified isn't only about metadata.

It also provides an operational picture of the org.

Trust Status

The Trust Status section retrieves live service-health information for your Salesforce instance from Salesforce's public status API.

You can see:

• Current status

• Open incidents

• Incident details

• Planned maintenance

• Maintenance windows

You don't have to figure out your instance name and manually look it up.

Setup Audit Trail

See the latest setup changes, filter them by section or user, and search through them.

When someone asks:

Who changed that?

you have somewhere to start.

API Monitor

See your daily API consumption against the org's limit.

Instead of discovering API exhaustion after an integration starts failing, you can monitor usage before it becomes a problem.

A news ticker for your org

Salesforce Simplified also provides a lightweight activity ticker.

It can surface events such as:

• Apex changes

• Flow modifications

• Test executions

• Debug logs

• Failed sign-ins

• Unusual sign-ins

• Record activity

• Pipeline movement

• Trust incidents

When a headline points to something actionable, it can take you directly to the relevant list.

The ticker also has a history view, allowing you to look back over the period you've chosen.

Understand how much time you're actually saving

Salesforce Simplified includes Usage Analytics.

It records usage locally in your browser and shows:

• Which features you use

• How frequently you use them

• How many days you've used them

• A calculated estimate of time saved

• The weighting used for that estimate

The goal isn't to produce a mysterious "you saved 17 hours" number.

The calculation is visible so you can decide whether the estimate makes sense.

There's also a usage streak showing consecutive active days, your longest run, and your next milestone.

Make the launcher fit your Salesforce UI

The launcher is intentionally small, but you can customize it.

Choose from:

8 colours

5 shapes

• Square

• Circle

• Triangle

• Diamond

• Hexagon

3 finishes

• Normal

• Subtle

• Shiny

And opacity can be adjusted from 10% to 100%.

There is also an adaptive opacity feature that changes gradually based on whether you've been using the extension.

Use it frequently and it becomes less visually prominent.

Stop using it for a while and it becomes easier to notice.

You can always override the value yourself.

Built for every Salesforce environment

Salesforce Simplified works across:

• Salesforce Classic

• Lightning Experience

• Setup

• Visualforce pages

• Production orgs

• Sandboxes

• Scratch orgs

• Developer orgs

The goal is simple:

One extension. The same workflow everywhere you work.

No separate login for most orgs

In most Salesforce orgs, Salesforce Simplified can use the Salesforce session you already have.

Some organizations intentionally restrict access to session cookies. For example, they may enable settings that prevent scripts from accessing the session cookie or mark it as HttpOnly.

For those environments, Salesforce Simplified provides a Connected App authentication path using OAuth Authorization Code with PKCE.

There is no client secret embedded in the extension.

You can choose where authentication starts:

• Current org

• Production

• Sandbox

• A Salesforce login URL

If an organization only allows its own Connected Apps, the extension guides you through creating one and provides the callback URL and the place to enter the Consumer Key.

Your data stays yours

Salesforce Simplified is designed around a simple principle:

Your Salesforce data goes to Salesforce.

The extension does not operate a backend server.

There is:

• No analytics service

• No telemetry

• No extension account

• No external application server

• No advertising network

Usage statistics are stored locally in your browser and separately per Salesforce org.

The only external service contacted by the extension is Salesforce's public Trust Status API for the Trust Status feature.

The extension requests only the permissions it needs:

• storage

• clipboardWrite

• identity

And its host access is restricted to Salesforce org domains.

Open source and MIT licensed

Salesforce Simplified is free and open source under the MIT license.

The source code is available on GitHub, and contributions, issues, and pull requests are welcome.

The idea behind the project is straightforward:

Salesforce professionals spend enough time inside their orgs. They shouldn't have to leave the page every time they need a small answer.

Salesforce Simplified puts those answers one hover away.