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  • Tag: Launch a Flow from an Object-Specific Action (Beta)

    • Salesforce Spring18 release quick summary

      Posted at 7:46 PM by Rakesh Gupta, on December 18, 2017

      Currently, Spring’18 release is available under the pre-release program. On the 5th and 6th of January, Sandboxes will be upgraded; as a result, your organization will get the look and feel of Spring’18 release. In this release, you will find lots of new features, as well as, new enhancements related to Lightning Experience and Communities.

      For example, features like, Get Guidance for Data Protection and Privacy Regulations, Show Your True Colors with Themes in Lightning, Get Search Results for More Objects, and  Opportunities: Opportunity Splits, Opportunity Product Name Visibility, Price Book Selection are now available in Lightning Experience. 

      Also, check out these beta and pilot features:

      • Einstein Forecasting: Intelligent Predictions About Your Sales Teams (Beta): – Let Einstein take the guesswork out of forecasting. Use artificial intelligence to get more certainty and visibility into how your sales teams are doing. Einstein improves your forecasting accuracy with predictions about your sales team’s opportunities based on past data. 
      • Set Different Login Policies for Salesforce and Community Users (Beta): – If you have a community set up in your org, you can now specify different login policies for internal and external users. For example, you can set up less restrictive access policies for employees that log in to your community, but external users are subject to profile IP restrictions.
      • Track Progress Through a Flow with Stages (Beta): – Now you can indicate a user’s point in the flow using the new stage resource and two new system variables: {!$Flow.ActiveStages} and {!$Flow.CurrentStage}. For example, indicate where in a purchasing flow the user is with breadcrumbs or a progress indicator. 

        Reference Salesforce release notes

      • Lightning Experience Report Builder: Buckets, Cross Filters, and Summary Formulas (Beta): – The second beta release of the Lightning Experience report builder lets you categorize report data with buckets, include or exclude results from related objects with cross filters, and summarize data in new ways with summary formula columns. 
      • Set Up Call Monitoring (Beta): –Improve selling techniques by enabling Call Monitoring from the Dialer Settings page in Setup. This feature is new in Lightning Experience.
      • Call JavaScript Directly from Your Flow with Local Actions (Pilot): – Now you can pull data from an on-premises or private cloud database directly into your flow without going through the Salesforce server. Or do things directly in the browser, such as open a particular URL or confirm that a record was created with a toast message. With flow local actions, you can call the JavaScript controller of an associated Lightning component, which means you can integrate directly with the browser. 
      • Encrypt Activities, Email Messages, Emails to Case, and Custom Object Name (Pilot): – Emails and time management tools play an important role in your day-to-day workflow. For another layer of security and compliance controls, you can now encrypt Activities, Email Messages, Email-to-Case messages, and Custom Object Name. 

      You can upload files from a flow by adding the forceContent:fileUpload Lightning component to a flow screen.This change applies to Lightning Experience and Salesforce mobile web. However, it only works for the Lightning flow runtime.

      Lightning Experience is supported by Apple® Safari® version 11.x+ on Mac OS X. The most recent stable versions of Microsoft® Edge, Mozilla® Firefox®, and Google Chrome™ are also supported. Salesforce now offering Extended Support for IE11. This extended support is available through December 31, 2020. You ca not access Lightning Experience via a mobile browser.

      Salesforce Classic is supported with Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 9, 10, and 11, Apple® Safari® version 11.x on Mac OS. The most recent stable versions of Microsoft® Edge, Firefox®, and Google Chrome™ are also supported.

      Below is the quick summary of Spring’18 release from user’s /customer’s

      Customers/Users Point of view

      1. Supercharge Your Productivity with Personalized Navigation in Lightning Experience: – You can now personalize navigation in Lightning Experience is similar to customized tab sets in Salesforce Classic but better. In Lightning Experience, the navigation bar can contain more than just object-level items, like Accounts. You can add granular items, like a dashboard, list, or record.

      Salesforce has given you more ways to navigate with temporary tabs. Use temporary tabs to access important items directly from the navigation bar. For example, open a frequently used dashboard in a temporary tab to access it instantly from anywhere.

      2. Organize Lightning Page into Collapsible Sections: – Manage screen clutter by grouping components into collapsible sections. The new Accordion component is like the Tabs component, but vertically stacked. You can use the Accordion component on all record pages. This feature is new in Lightning Experience.

      You can have up to 25 sections, but we recommend no more than 10. You can also embed multiple components in each section, each with its own heading.

      Read the rest of this entry!

      Posted in Spring'18 Release | 4 Comments | Tagged Add Account Team Members to Opportunity Teams in Lightning Experience, Add Campaign Members Lightning Experience, Add Products to Price Books Lightning Experience, Add Tables with Up to 10 Columns to Dashboards (Beta), Alert Users Before They are Redirected Outside Salesforce, Apex: Platform Cache, Assign Separate Standard Action Overrides for Different Experiences, Associate Paused Flow Interviews with a Record, Automatically Remove Content After a Specific Time Salesforce community, Build Richer Flow Screens with Lightning Components, Call JavaScript Directly from Your Flow with Local Actions, Case Path for Lightning Experience, Chat Smarter with Lightning Knowledge, Collaborate with Community Members with Quip, Deactivate Orgs You Don’t Use Salesforce, Delete Field History and Field Audit Trail Data, Detect the Lightning Console UI Theme in Visualforce Pages, Einstein Forecasting: Intelligent Predictions About Your Sales Teams (Beta, Generate Leads from LinkedIn Salesforce, Get Guidance for Data Protection and Privacy Regulations, Get Search Results for More Objects, Include Related Fields and Other Objects in Component Visibility Rules, Increase Your Efficiency by Managing List Emails in One Place, Launch a Flow from an Object-Specific Action, Launch a Flow from an Object-Specific Action (Beta), Leads, Make Your Lightning App and Home Pages Dynamic, or Person Accounts, Organize Lightning Page into Collapsible Sections, Override the Default Header and Footer on Flow Screens, Personalized Navigation in Lightning Experience, Preview Files on the Go Salesforce, Resume Paused Flow Interviews from Lightning Experience, Resume Paused Interviews That Other Users Own, salesforce release, Salesforce Spring'18 key date, Salesforce Spring'18 pre-release org, Salesforce Spring'18 release, Salesforce Spring'18 release dumps, Salesforce Spring'18 release exam, Salesforce Spring'18 release exam admin, Salesforce Spring'18 release exam App builder, Salesforce Spring'18 release exam Developer, Salesforce Spring'18 release exam Pardot, Salesforce Spring'18 release exam Platform Developer I, Salesforce Spring'18 release HTML, Salesforce Spring'18 release PDF, Salesforce Spring'18 release question, Salesforce Spring'18’, Search for Folders with Salesforce Search, See the Most Relevant Reasons Behind Each Score, Set Different Login Policies for Salesforce and Community Users, Set Up Call Monitoring, Share Credit for a Deal in Lightning Experience, Show Your True Colors with Themes in Lightning, Spring'18 release quick summary, Spring'18 Salesforce, Spring'18 Salesforcea release HTML, Spring'18 Salesforcea release PDF, Spring'18 Salesforcea release summary, Start Flows Dynamically from Apex, Subscribe to Dashboards to Schedule Refreshes and Get Email Updates, Track Progress Through a Flow with Stages (Beta), Turn Emails from Unknown Addresses into Contacts, Upload file from Flow, Upload file from Visual Workflow, Use without sharing for @AuraEnabled Apex Controllers with Implicit Sharing
    • Top 5 Lightning Component Gems of Salesforce Winter’18 Release!

      Posted at 1:33 AM by Rakesh Gupta, on September 4, 2017

      The Lightning Component modern framework is a User Interface framework to develop dynamic web apps for mobile and desktop devices. As is the case with each release, the latest Winter ‘18 release is packed with rich features including, the newly added Lightning Component features!

      Currently, Winter’18 release is available under the pre-release program. On the 8th and 9th of September, Sandboxes will be upgraded; as a result, your organization will get the look and feel of Winter’18 release. 

      If you have not read the entire 559 pages of Salesforce Winter’18 release notes yet, check out Winter’18 release quick summary and, the Top 10 Lightning Experience Gems of Salesforce Winter’18 Release! written by me. 

      I combed through the release notes and highlighted the added capabilities to the Lightning Component features. Believe me, it was hard to stop at just five! To kick things off, here is my take on the coolest Lightning Component features from Winter’18 release. 

      1) Build Exciting User Interfaces with New Base Lightning Components:- Now you can accelerate your development with a fresh medley of 30 new built-in Lightning components. The new components cover a broad range of user interface elements and give you a whole new tool bag for your development. Following are few of the new component features. Please note that these features require API version 41.0 or later.

        a) lightning:datatable: – It will display a table with columns of data, formatted according to type.

        b) lightning:checkboxGroup: – It will display a checkbox group that enables selection of single or multiple checkboxes.

      Read the rest of this entry!

      Posted in Winter'18 Release | 4 Comments | Tagged Check Your Encryption Coverage with Encryption Statistics (Beta), Control Access to Apex REST Services, Create Custom Page Templates with Lightning Components, Custom Page Templates with Lightning Components, Embed Dashboards on the Home Tab and in Lightning Apps, Explore Salesforce DX, Get Your Visualforce Pages Ready for Lightning Experience, Launch a Flow from an Object-Specific Action (Beta), Lightning Components, Lightning Data Service, lightning:checkboxGroup, lightning:datatable, lightning:dualListbox, lightning:fileUpload, lightning:flow, lightning:progressIndicator, Make Your Lightning Pages Dynamic, Meet the Refreshed LockerService API Viewer, Query Millions of Records with Async SOQL, Refreshed LockerService API Viewer, salesforce, salesforce release, Salesforce Winter'18, Salesforce Winter'18 key date, Salesforce Winter'18 pre-release org, Salesforce Winter'18 release, Salesforce Winter'18 release dumps, Salesforce Winter'18 release exam, Salesforce Winter'18 release exam admin, Salesforce Winter'18 release exam App builder, Salesforce Winter'18 release exam Developer, Salesforce Winter'18 release exam Pardot, Salesforce Winter'18 release exam Platform Developer I, Salesforce Winter'18 release HTML, Salesforce Winter'18 release PDF, Salesforce Winter'18 release question, Translate Lightning Component Tabs, Use Case Milestones in Lightning Experience, Winter'18 release quick summary, Winter'18 Salesforce
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