BrightGen's Winter 17 Salesforce Release webinar deck, presented by Service Manager Cllive Platt and CTO Keir Bowden. The webinar recording is available at : https://youtu.be/BM0_zaD1QsA
4. Fond farewells
• Salesforce for Outlook 2007/Exchange 2007 –
Spring 17
• Upgrade to 2010/2013/2016
• Stay in touch – Summer 17
• Cloud Scheduler – Winter 18
• Removal of ‘New Meeting Request’ button
disables
• Not available in new orgs since Winter 17
• Classic mobile app – Dec 17 (details later)
8. Favorites
• Appear on all browsers
• Appear on navbar
• Up to 200 favorites
• Record home standard/custom objects
(including VF overrides)
• List views
• Dashboards
• Reports
• Chatter groups
• Dashboards
11. Person
Accounts
• Now available in Professional Edition
• Matching and duplicate rules
• Customize person account pages
• Create indirect relationships with contacts
• Merging not supported
12. View/Edit Converted
Leads
• Requires permission
• View and Edit Converted Leads
• Appear in list views, related lists and search for
LEX/Classic
• Recent Leads only in Salesforce 1
• Cannot unconvert leads
13. Sales Path
• Renamed to path
• Supports quotes
• Supports custom objects
• Respects fields required by page layout
Opportunities only in Salesforce1
24. LEX Analytics
• Subscribe to reports
• Up to 5
• Daily, weekly or monthly
• View dashboard as specific user
• Me (author)
• Specified User
• Running User
• Can allow viewers to change
• Follow dashboards
26. Housekeeping
• Pre-Winter 16 templates not longer supported
• Koa, Kokua and CS (Napili)
• Locker service for communities now rolled into locker
service
• Enabled for communities only = disabled!
• Locker service restricts <HEAD> tag contents
• sforce.co/2kihIxw
38. Housekeeping
• Salesforce1 requires iOS 10 in Spring 17
• Classic mobile app to retire in December 2017
• Will stop working December 1
• Will be removed from App/Play store
• iOS 10 and Android 7.0 are the final versions for Classic
compatibility testing
39. Quotes and
Orders
• Quotes now in navigation menu
• Create/active/deactivate orders
• Change order owner
• Order products related list
42. Unified On/Offline Create and
Edit
• All changes are saved as pending
• Online used to pause until save completed.
• Background sync with Salesforce
• Notification when complete
48. Visualforce
• <apex:slds /> tag
• Latest version!
• $Asset global variable
• Images, sprites etc from SLDS
• Force.com site disable access to standard pages
49. Platform - Other
• Only one @testSetup method per class
• Will not run otherwise
• Web service callouts allowed from chained queueable jobs
• Previously just the original job
• Improved lightning component error messages