Salesforce Spring ‘14 Developer Overview
This is the slide deck for the presentation delivered at the South West UK Salesforce Developers User Group
March 5th 2014
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Salesforce Spring ‘14 Developer Overview
Simon LawrenceSW Community LeaderCertified Force.com Developer
Christopher Alun LewisForce.com MVP
Certified Advanced Developer
Salesforce Spring ‘14
The most important thing about any Salesforce release is…
The new logo.
Key DatesFebruary 7 and 8: Sandboxes upgraded
February 14: NA1 upgraded
March 7: The second release weekend This is when another set of instances -- NA6, NA7, NA8, NA9,
and NA13
March 14 and 15: The final release weekend All remaining Salesforce systems will be upgraded over this
weekend in March. This is also the upgrade weekend for any Sandboxes you’ve opted not to include in the Sandbox preview
Key Developer ChangesSalesforce 1
New Sandboxes
Even more Developer Console
Visualforce updates
Apex Updates
SOQL, Chatter, Autonumbers, Enhanced Lookups
Salesforce 1Salesforce 1
Custom Apps + Partner AppsCustom Tabs + VisualForceCustom Actions – Take photos / Provide Feedback
(Contextually aware)
Salesforce AAdministrators can reset passwords from mobileActivate/Freeze accounts
Private AppStoresCustomized/limited by role, department or theme
Salesforce 1 ChatterSalesforce file sync
Drag and drop files to a local folder on your PCAutomatically sync/update/view files through PC or
MobileThink Google Drive/Dropbox for Chatter files
Endorse knowledgeable people with badges for Communities
Private messages to Community members
Topics can now be added to records directly
Partial Data SandboxesNew Sandbox type between Config Only and Full
Copy
Contains all metadataReports, Dashboards, price books, products apps
Can contain up to 5Gb of record and file dataMax 10,000 records per object type
Can be refreshed every 5 days
Sandbox e-mail refreshBefore Spring ‘14
[email protected]@domain.com.sandboxname
After Spring ‘[email protected][email protected]
Any time the sandbox is refreshed, users who want to continue receiving sandbox emails must modify their email address.
Developer Console UpdatesSearch and replace within files
Standard keyboard shortcuts workUse CTRL+SHIFT+H to search files not even
in current viewChange file API version from the DC
Developer Console UpdatesFull screen file editing using browser F11
controlNew pre-built themes and font setting
preferences
Developer Console UpdatesContext Menus
Right click on tabs for file “Save options”Right click on log headers to open or download
file
Clear test coverage statistics
No half coverage
VisualforceVisualforce development mode disabled in
preview
Visualforce page property “Mobile Ready” renamed to “Salesforce Classic Ready”
<apex:actionFunction> now supports a namespace attribute to avoid Javascript function name collisions
Changing Apex Attributes<apex:page title=“”> behaves more
consistently
<analytics:reportChart> now in GA
PageReference URIs Support Anchors
PageReference p=new PageReference('/home.jsp#logTicket');
ElsewhereLimits.getScriptStatements fixed to respect
legacy code
Chatter in ApexConnectApi provides static access to Chatter data
Auto-number fields can optionally not be consumed by tests using Independent Auto-Number Sequence
ElsewhereCompound Address and Geolocation fields can be
included in SOQL SELECT statements over the APIsSELECT BillingAddress FROM …
File storage per user licence increased from 612Mb to 2Gb
Enhanced lookup now searches all fields in User and OpportunitiesCannot start searches with %Cannot search a single characterIf you free type and save, a search is automatically
performed
That’s your lot
Read the full 339 page Release Notes document at:
http://www.salesforce.com/newfeatures/
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