Description
Set your clocks everyone, it’s time to spring forward and learn about the new features in Spring ‘16 for Admins and Developers. We’ll dig into the gems from the release that will help Admins be productive and make life easier like updates to Collaboration, the Lightning User Experience and Lightning Setup. We’ll also cover the exciting new features for Developers including the ability to surface Lightning Components anywhere with Lightning Out, add Visualforce pages to the new Lightning Experience, and several API enhancements.
Key Takeaways
- See various ways you can use existing Visualforce pages in the new Lightning Experience
- Surface your Lightning Components anywhere with Lightning Out
- Learn about several new API enhancements around SOQL, Asynch SOQL, Apex, Streaming, and more!
- See the latest updates to Lightning Setup for Admins
- Explore the newest Collaboration updates for your User’s experience and social management
- See the latest Lightning updates for interacting with your data like Inline Editing and the new Lightning Navigation Menu
Intended Audience
This session is geared towards existing Salesforce developers and admins that want to learn about the latest features and technologies in the Spring '16 release.
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@salesforcedevs / #DevSpring16
@salesforceadmns / #AwesomeAdmin
Salesforce Developers
Salesforce Admins
Salesforce Developers
This webinar is being recorded!
The video will be posted to YouTube and the
webinar recap page (same URL as registration).
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6. • Post your questions with #askforce
bit.ly/ReleaseReadinessSalesforce
-There are community members waiting to answer your questions
• Don’t wait until the end to ask your question!
-Technical support will answer questions starting now.
• Respect Q&A etiquette
-Please don’t repeat questions. The support team is working their
way down the queue.
• Stick around for live Q&A at the end
-Speakers will tackle more questions at the end, time-allowing.
Have Questions?
7. 1.Visualforce for Lightning Experience
2.Lightning for Developers
3.Apex Testing & FlexQueue Enhancements
4.Various API Enhancements
5. Lightning Setup & Health Check
6. Global & Restricted Picklists
7. Process Builder & App Builder
8. Lightning UI Updates
9.Q & A
Agenda
10. 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
11. • 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
12. 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
13. 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
15. • 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
16. 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)
17. • 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
18. • Replay Generic Streaming Events (GA)
- Salesforce stores for 24hrs
- Subscribers choose events to retrieve with replay options
API Enhancements - Streaming API
19. • 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
20. • 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
Other Various API Enhancements
21. • 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
Other Various API Enhancements
22. Get started today with Wave in Trailhead!
bit.ly/wave-de-org
bit.ly/wave-trail
bit.ly/wave-dev-guide
28. • 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
30. • Almost 9000 idea points for
Process Builder delivered!
• Drag & Drop Criteria reordering
• Reuse names & descriptions for
new process versions
• Full field names now visible on
hover
Process Builder Updates in Spring ‘16
31. • Open Pilot
• DE & Admin Playground
• Add set of tabs
• Custom tabs
• Customize record pages
App Builder Customize Record Home (Pilot)
32. • Campaigns
• Person Accounts
• Opportunity Teams
• List Views
• Inline editing
• Global Actions
• S1 Enhanced dashboards
Lightning UI Updates