This presentation contains the main key changes and enhancements that I pieced together from Salesforce's Summer 12 release notes. Highlighted in red are the changes/enhancements that have great impact or importance. Tal Carmi

1. Salesforce Summer 12
Main Changes Summary
Out of Scope: Knowledge, Mobile,
Data.com, API
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2. Main Changes
• Chatter Messenger
– Needs to be activated
– Can be integrated into visualforce pages
• Multi Contact Tasks
– Needs to be activated
– Allow you to connect a task to up to 10 contacts,
one of which is defined as the main contact
– Will not be returned by queries on Task in code
saved in API 24 or below
– Do not work with old Office integration to
Salesforce (connect to outlook)
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3. Main Changes
• Improved “Search & Add” Products
• Cases
– New case feeds functionality
– New case feed visualforce components
• Chatter Answers is now available in
Partner/Customer portals
• Reports Home Page
– You can now drag reports between folders
– Different icons for report and dashboard
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4. Main Changes
• Reports & Dashboards
– In joined reports, formulas can now include values
from different blocks
– Charts can be added to joined reports
– Charts can now be defined regardless of the
underlying report’s grouping or summary fields
– Combination charts are now available in
dashboards and not only in reports
– Report Timeout Warning – a warning that appears
if the system suspects a report may timeout,
needs to be enabled
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5. Main Changes
• Reports
– New date-literals are available
• Force.com & Setup
– Visual workflows now support sub-flows (you can
incorporate an existing flow as a part of another
flow)
– New way to read/write to flow variables
– Flow sorting & UI enhancements
– Flows can be accessed and used by visualforce
pages
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6. Main Changes
• Force.com & Setup
– Describe for field sets is now available (i.e. get
what fields are included in a given field set)
– The development mode footer can be disabled
– Workspaces are now available in the developer
console
– Schema Builder is now available and you can
create & edit objects and fields within it
– Permission sets can now define which tabs a user
can see
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7. Main Changes
• Apex
– JSON Methods improvements in Apex
– New System.Type methods (allows to dynamically
create an instance of any type)
– Asynchronous processes are now run at the end of
a test class if the StartTest/StopTest are not
specified (from API 25)
– List.sort can now be used on lists of non-primitive
data types (i.e. custom classes or sObjects)
– SOQL “Offset” is now available (queries the
records after “jumping” x records)
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8. Main Changes
• Additional Enhancements
– Log-in as any user (activation through Salesforce)
– Data export size has increased
– Recent Items in setup (beta)
– Incoming email snapshot (helpful to debug email
services)
– Master-Detail records can be re-parented (i.e. change
the parent of a child record)
– New lookup behaviors (main one – can automatically
delete related records when the parent is deleted)
– Time dependent workflows can re-trigger workflows
Created by Tal Carmi, Salesforce Specialist