Spring is around the corner and that means good news for Salesforce passionates. The Sandbox Preview window for Spring ‘17 was scheduled to begin January 6, 2017, so we can start playing with the new features.
I want to hightlight those I consider the most important ones that we cannot miss.
Platform
- Continue to Be Impressed with Contacts to Multiple Accounts
- Email Files as Attachments or Links: You Decide
- Automatically Assign Cases to Queues When Customers Submit Cases via Email-to-Case
- Support Your Customers from Your Website with Snap-In Chat (Beta)
- Field Service Lightning iOS: Technicians, Rejoice! Here’s Your All-In-One Mobile Solution (Generally Available)
- Omni-Channel Routing for Chats is Generally Available
- Collaborative Forecasts: Sales Projections in Lightning Experience
- Automatically Add Emails and Events to Salesforce with Automated Activity Capture for Einstein
- External Services: Connect to Salesforce Using a Wizard, Schema, and Flow (Beta)
- Work Seamlessly Across All Your Salesforce Orgs—Cross-Org Connector with Write Support
- Introducing Lightning Console Apps (Beta)
- Assign Record Pages by App, Record Type, and Profile
- Customize Your Console App Record Pages with Lightning App Builder
- Customize Your Lightning Pages Even More with New Templates
- Lightning API
- Filter Reports via URL Parameters in Lightning Experience
- Debug Apex Code in Subscriber Orgs
- Lightning Bolt: Package More Easily and Distribute on AppExchange
- Skype for Salesforce (Beta): Saved Chats, More Editions, and Lightning App Builder
- Make Your Own Kanban View
- Apex Stub API Is Now Generally Available
- Create Shortcuts to Your Top Salesforce Pages with Favorites
- Path for Quotes and Custom Objects
- Enhance Your Lightning Apps with the Utility Bar
- Take More Actions from the Global Actions Menu
- Visualize Account Relationships by Using Account Hierarchy in Lightning Experience
- Pick an Object and Search It from Anywhere
- Get More Done Directly from Gmail
- Recently Scheduled Meetings Visible from Lightning Experience Home Without Browser Refresh
- Business Processes Use Name Field to Evaluate Person Accounts
- Account Autofill Now Called Automated Account Fields
- Lead Assignment Rules Visible in Lightning Experience
- Case Assignment Checkbox Visible in Lightning Experience
- Knowledge: Say Hello to Lightning Knowledge (Beta)
- Web-to-Case: Thwart Spammers with reCAPTCHA
- Review Pending Approval Requests from Lightning Experience
- Run Flows with a Lightning Skin (Generally Available)
- Embed Your Flows in Lightning Pages (Beta)
- Customize the Look and Feel of Flow Interviews with the REST API (Pilot)
- More Context for Flow Errors
- Enforce Field-Level Security for All Flow Operations
It’s a huge amount of documentation to read but they are really good changes and we have to be updated!
I would like to point out the new Utility bar and the potential that it has. It reminds me a lot to the footer bar that you can enable on the Service Cloud Console. Take a look to the following example: An Org Chart Lightning Component for the Utility Bar in Spring ’17