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    • 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.

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    • Salesforce Summer17 release quick summary

      Posted at 5:31 AM by Rakesh Gupta, on April 23, 2017

      *Image credit – Daniel Peter

      Salesforce Summer’17 release notes preview are out. The Summer’17 release of Salesforce is now in available under the pre-release program. On 05th and 06th May Sandboxes will be upgraded so that your organization gets the look and feel of Summer’17 release. In this release, you can find lot of new features as well as new enhancements related to Lightning Experience, and Search functionalities.

      For example, Make the Lightning Experience the only experience, Navigate to a Record Directly from an Action Success Message, Lightning Console Split View, Access Field History related lists in Lightning Experience, and  See Results from External Search Engines with Federated Search are now available in Lightning Experience. 

      Also, check out these beta and pilot features:

      • Connect Your Content Management System to Your Community (Beta): – CMS Connect lets you bring your Adobe Experience Manager content, such as headers, footers, and banners, into your community. CMS Connect is available in communities that are based on Customer Service (Napili), Partner Central, and any Lightning Bolt solutions.
      • Encrypt Sensitive Lead Fields (Beta): -You can now encrypt 10 standard fields containing personally identifying information (PII) in Lead records.
      • Dynamically Update Flow Screen Fields (Pilot): -Use field rules to control when to show, or hide, particular screen fields. Turn your flows into guided UIs that respond to users’ inputs and selections. This feature is available in Lightning Experience, Salesforce Classic, and all versions of the Salesforce1 mobile app. However, it takes effect only for flows that use Lightning runtime.
      • Lightning Console JavaScript API (Pilot): – The Lightning Console JavaScript API provides JavaScript methods so that developers can programmatically control tabs, subtabs, and the utility bar in Lightning console apps. 
      • Lightning Data Service (Beta): – Use Lightning Data Service to load, create, edit, or delete a record in your component, without using Apex code. Lightning Data Service handles sharing rules and field-level security for you. Lightning Data Service also improves performance and user-interface consistency.
      • Use Advanced PDF to Render Visualforce Pages as PDF Files (Pilot): – Advanced PDF renders Visualforce pages as PDF files with broader support for modern HTML standards, such as CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5. 

      You can now convert an existing object level picklist to a Global value Set. To promote a single picklist field into a global value set, edit your picklist field by clicking Promote to Global Value Set button.

      Promote Your Picklist Fields to Global Value Sets

      Promote Your Picklist Fields to Global Value Sets

      Lightning Experience is supported by Apple® Safari® version 10.x+ on Mac OS X and Microsoft® Edge for Windows® 10. The most recent stable versions of Mozilla® Firefox® and Google Chrome™ are also supported. Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 11 is retiring starting in Summer ’16(EOL December 31, 2020). You can’t access Lightning Experience in a mobile browser.

      Salesforce Classic is supported with Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 9, 10, and 11, Apple® Safari® version 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x on Mac OS X, and Microsoft® Edge for Windows® 10. The most recent stable versions of Mozilla® Firefox® and Google Chrome™ are also supported. Below is the quick summary of Summer’17 release from user’s /customer’s

      Customers/Users Point of view

      1. Use Your Classic Email Templates in Lightning Experience: – Now it is possible to use Salesforce Classic email templates in Lightning Experience. You can use your Text, Custom HTML, and Letterhead email templates in Lightning Experience. This change applies to Lightning Experience only.

      Reference – Salesforce release notes

      2. Filter Your Case Feed in Lightning Experience: – Support agents can find what they are looking for in a case faster by using filters in feed-based case page layouts. This change applies to Lightning Experience only. For support agents, Lightning Experience feed filters work just like Salesforce Classic filters. Lightning Experience users see any custom feed filters created in your instance of Salesforce. 

      Reference – Salesforce release notes

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