Spring '16 Release Overview - Bilbao Feb 2016
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Slide presentation from my talk in Bilbao Spain. This was an overview of Salesforce major release Spring 16. Primary areas of focus were Lightning in Visualforce and the new Durable Generic Streaming API.
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Spring '16 Release Overview - Bilbao Feb 2016
- 1. Salesforce Dev Group Bilbao Spain Spring ’16 Release Overview 19 February, 2016
- 2. Looking-Forward Statement Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of any litigation, risks associated with completed and any possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year and in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter. These documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
- 3. Speakers Peter Chittum Senior Developer Evangelist @pchittum
- 4. Go Social! @salesforcedevs / #AskForce @salesforceadmns / #AwesomeAdmin Salesforce Developers Salesforce Admins Salesforce Developers Salesforce Developers ButtonClick Admins
- 5. ▪ www.salesforce.com/newfeatures ▪ Release Readiness Community ▪ trust.Salesforce.com ▪ Trailhead Release Prep Trails Stay up-to-date with Release Information
- 7. Lightning
- 8. • Lightning UI Updates • Lightning Experience Navigation Menus • Visualforce for Lightning Experience • Design Tokens for Unified Look and Feel • Lightning for Visualforce • Lightning Out • Lightning Components Inspector Lightning Feature Highlights
- 9. • Campaigns • Person Accounts • Opportunity Teams • List Views • Inline editing • Global Actions • S1 Enhanced dashboards Lightning UI Updates
- 10. • Assigned by Profile • Respect Tab Perms • Possible Content Includes: - Custom Objects or Apps - Standard Objects - Visualforce or LCF Tabs - Canvas App Tabs - Web Tabs Custom Navigation Menus
- 11. New places to add VF - Add VF pages to the LEX Navigation Menu - Detect where a user is viewing the page from (S1, Classic, LEX) with the UITheme context variable Not so new…Just FYI - Run VF from the App Launcher - Display VF page embedded in standard Page Layout - Create VF component for App Builder - VF custom actions, buttons, and links Visualforce for Lightning Experience (Beta) Visualforce is GA, VF pages with LEX enabled is beta
- 12. • Header and sidebar are always suppressed and page title can’t be set • Don’t set window.location, use sforce.one utility object • Static URLs might break in some contexts -in VF markup use: {!URLFOR($Action.Conact.Edit, recordId)} -in Javascript use: navigateToSObject(recordId) • Detect user context to potentially adjust style to the app environment • Some VF override actions are not available in LEX • Some related lists are currently blacklisted in LEX • <apex:iFrame> is deprecated in LEX Visualforce for Lightning Experience (Beta) Extra considerations you need to know
- 13. Other Lightning Features • Capture design variables with Lightning Components tokens (developer preview) <aura:tokens> <aura:token name=“myBodyTextFontFace" value="Arial"/> <aura:token name="myBodyTextFontWeight" value=“normal"/> </aura:tokens> .THIS p { font-family: token(myBodyTextFontFace); font-weight: token(myBodyTextFontWeight); } • Improved performance with secure client-side caching
- 14. Lightning Out facilitates using Lightning Components in Visualforce Pages • Use components directly in Visualforce • Integrate on the client via JavaScript and Lightning Events • Build “hybrid” pages that leverage the best of Lightning Components and Visualforce • Use Lightning Components in both Classic and LEX Lightning Out (beta) Lightning Components for Visualforce (GA)
- 15. • Chrome Plug-in • Understand internal state of Lightning Components lifecycle Lightning Inspector
- 16. Demo Lightning
- 17. Apex
- 18. • Testing Enhancements • Flex Queue Position Apex
- 19. • Create test suites of commonly used Apex Classes • Stop a test run that’s failing miserably • Bug fixes: - currency to decimal comparisons - some MIXED_DML_OPERATION errors - resetting limits for test.startTest() Apex Testing Enhancements
- 20. Locate Jobs in the Apex Flex Queue Query the FlexQueueItem object to find: - position of an asynch Apex job in the Flex Queue - fields from the AsynchApexJob object with the AsynchApexJobId SELECT JobPosition, AsyncApexJob.ApexClass.Name FROM FlexQueueItem WHERE JobType = 'BatchApex' AND AsyncApexJobId = '707xx000000DABC' (find the position) SELECT JobType, AsyncApexJob.CreatedDate FROM FlexQueueItem WHERE JobType='BatchApex' AND AsyncApexJob.ApexClass.Name LIKE '%'BatchAJob'%' ORDER BY JobPosition DESC (find all batch jobs)
- 21. API
- 22. • Durable Streaming API (replay messages) • SOQL Enhancements • JSON support for Bulk API • REST API - Friendly URLs - Make REST requests with fewer API calls - Access records by traversing object relationships to retrieve, update, or delete the record • Wave REST API has gone GA API Enhancements
- 23. • Query records saved in all users’ private folders with the allPrivate query scope • DISTANCE() supported with location-based SOQL queries SELECT Id, Name, Location, DISTANCE(Location, GEOLOCATION(latitude, longitude), ‘mi’) FROM Contact • Formatting for number, date,time, and currency fields in SELECT clauses API Enhancements - SOQL
- 24. • Replay Generic Streaming Events (GA) - Salesforce stores for 24hrs - Subscribers choose events to retrieve with replay options API Enhancements - Streaming API
- 25. • Replay PushTopic Streaming Events (Beta) - identical to generic streaming with replay for 24hrs - subscription channel should include PushTopic “channel”:“/topic/MyTopicName” Contact Salesforce to enable this API Enhancements - Streaming API
- 26. API Demo
- 27. Spring ’16 for Point and Clic
- 28. • Lightning & Classic • Immediate analysis • Actionable links • Password Policies • Session Settings • Network Access Config Security Health Check
- 29. • Reuse a single list of values • Manage a recurring picklist in one place • 40,000+ Idea Exchange points • Keep picklist data clean • Restrict ability to create values Global (Pilot) & Restricted (Beta) Picklists
- 31. Trailhead and Release Readiness bit.ly/sf-release-trail
- 32. Join the Conversation!post to: bit.ly/ReleaseReadinessSalesforce with #askforce
- 33. Q&A
- 34. Thank you!