staying ahead of the curve with lightning - snowforce16 keynote

Staying Ahead of the Curve with Lightning

Mike Gerholdt Admin Evangelist

Samantha Ready Developer Evangelist

Gillian Madill Admin Marketing

Joshua Schneyer Product Manager

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The #AwesomeAdmins’ Journey


We are on Journey Together…

Spring ‘16 is Packed with Updates!

ISVForce

Campaigns in Lightning

Lightning Component Enhancements

Person Accounts in Lightning

Notes in Lightning

Opportunity Teams in Lightning

Collaborative Forecasting

Improved Apex Testing

Security Health Check

Exchange Sync

Broadcast Groups

Enhanced Charts in Salesforce1 Salesforce App for Outlook

Macros

Visualforce in Lightning

Cases in Lightning Multi-Component Assets

Social Customer Service

Wave for Communities

Customizable Navigation in Lightning

Flex Dashboard Designer

Lightning Out

Drag & Drop Criteria in Process Builder

Social Insights in Lightning

Global & Restricted Picklists

SalesforceA Updates

•  Instant analysis of your org

•  Identify and fix security vulnerabilities compared to Salesforce Baseline standards

•  Analyzes: •  Password Policies

•  Session Settings

•  Network Access Configuration

•  Available in both Lightning Experience & Salesforce Classic

Admins  Security Health Check

•  Almost 9000 idea points for Process Builder delivered!

•  Reorder criteria with drag and drop

•  Reuse names & descriptions for new process versions

•  Full field names now visible on hover

 Process Builder Updates in Spring ‘16

Admins

•  40,000+ Idea Exchange points

•  Reuse a single list of values for multiple custom picklist fields

•  Manage a recurring picklist in one place

•  Keep picklist data clean - users can’t add erroneous or redundant values

•  Restrict ability to create values

 Global (Pilot) & Restricted (Beta) Picklists

Admins

We are on Journey Together… Developers’ Path to Success


•  Places you can add Visualforce into Lightning Experience

•  NEW Add Visualforce pages to the Lightning Navigation Menu

•  Run Visualforce from the App Launcher

•  Create Visualforce components for App Builder

•  Drop Visualforce Pages into Record Home with Lightning App Builder or the Page Layout Editor

•  Visualforce custom actions, buttons, and links

•  NEW Detect where a user is viewing the page from (Classic, Lightning, Salesforce1) with the UITheme context variable

 Visualforce for Lightning Experience (Beta)

Developers

•  Detect user context to potentially adjust style to the app environment

•  Header and sidebar are always suppressed and page title can’t be set

•  For LEX or S1 use the sforce.one utility object. Only use window.location in Classic.

•  Static URLs might break in some contexts

•  In Visualforce markup use: {!URLFOR($Action.Conact.Edit, recordId)}

•  In Javascript use: navigateToSObject(recordId)

•  Who moved my cheese? •  Some Visualforce override actions are not available in Lightning

•  Some related lists are currently blacklisted in Lightning

•  <apex:iFrame> is deprecated in Lightning

 Visualforce for Lightning Experience (Beta): Extra Considerations You Need to Know

Developers

•  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 Classic, Salesforce1, and Lightning Experience simultaneously

 Lightning Out (Beta): Lightning Components for Visualforce (GA)

Developers

Visualforce Page

•  Create test suites of commonly used Apex classes

•  Stop a test run that’s failing miserably

 Apex Testing Enhancements

Developers

We are on Journey Together… End Users see Value and Success


•  In-context updates

•  Stay on top of news about the company

•  Increase ability to update records quickly

•  Improved User Experience

•  Easier Navigation

•  Customized & Personalized Workspace

 The Value for End Users

End Users

Josh Schneyer Product Manager, Salesforce

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