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Salesforce Winter ’16 Release – important updates and new features
below is the important updates and new features in Salesforce Winter ’16 Release
- No longer accessible from Setup or the Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Campaign Detail, and My Settings pages.
- Legacy Import “My Accounts and Contacts” is being retired
- Why? The Data Import Wizard is more capable.
- Consists of three things about the Lightning Experience:
- Lightning Experience Desktop App: 25 new features, modern UI, faster
- Lightning App Builder: Drag & drop to make customizations quick and easy
- Lightning Design System: Style guide, design patterns, and component library.
- Sales analytics are better and easier to configure.
- Create tasks, update a record, and share insights
- Ability to route incoming work items (Cases, chats, calls, leads, etc..) to specific users.
- Helps to eliminate queue cherry picking or the wrong people working your service calls/cases.
- Also helps load balance the incoming work
- New Sales & Service Events added
- Will listen for when specified records are created or updated to trigger customers into a specific journey, which is enhanced by personalized communications.
- Communities is now known as Community Cloud.
- Lighting components now available in Community Builder
Lightning Experience for Custom Objects
- Create and customize custom objects in a new streamlined setup
- Create pages by dragging and dropping components
- Related: The new Object Manager can be used to manage both standard and custom objects in one place.
- Rollup Summary Field limit increased from 10 to 25
- Multi-Select picklists can now have 500 values! (Don’t tell your users)
- “Restricted Picklists” This feature can prevent users from making up their own picklist values when loading data.
- Previewing files is fast and looks great.
- New: “Broadcast Groups” – type of group where only owners and managers can create new posts
- Ability to mute posts
- Write Chatter posts in rich text
- Connect for Outlook is now retired
- Duplicate rules now run as users complete fields on a record, not just when they hit “Save.”
- Enabled Lookup Relationship field for activities, but there is still a list of limitations.
- New: “Salesforce Console for Service” – should reduce time and clicks on service calls
- Enhanced search engine matching rules should make it easier when using punctuation in the search.
- Bulkified! The previous limit of 100 SOQL queries has been raised to 20,000
- Schedule multiple actions!
- Bulkified! The previous limit of 100 SOQL queries has been raised to 20,000
- Faster Org-Wide Default Sharing Recalculations
- New: “Object-Specific Share Locks” – make multiple sharing rule changes without waiting for recalculation across all objects to complete.
- Ability to Auto-Activate a refreshed sandbox