Winter17 Release Overview

-Vaibhav Vora

AGENDA
CONFIDENTIAL: For limited circulation only

Chatter

Lightning Experience

Salesforce1

Wave / Analytics

Customization & Development

Chatter
Lightning Experience

Feed

Play Video (LEX & SF1)

Upload Multiple Image files in one go

Rich text posts

Edit Posts / Comments

View Count for Posts

Question type post available in the Publisher

Improved Group create process

Live Group Feed & Comments (with limitations available only in LEX and not in SF1)

Customizable Groups (Beta)

Simplified setup of Files Connect using point and click on Azure Management Console
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Lightning Experience
New Navigation Menu (Horizontal Navigation Bar instead of Left Hand navigation)

Names instead of Icons in the navigation bar

Improved App Launcher experience with search enabled & ability to reorder apps.

LEX App Manager Bundle Tabs / Items in an app

Custom Home Page for LEX

Field level Help in LEX & SF1

Better Search Auto Spell correction in search results and also includes Knowledge base
Skype for Salesforce (Beta) Only in LEX
Browser Support (Link)

Microsoft Edge for Windows10, latest Chrome & Firefox, Safari 8.x & 9.x for MAC OS X

IE11 support expired in Summer16 release (continues until 16th Dec17 for existing customers)

Salesforce1
Updated Device / OS support policy (link)
iOS 10 as minimum OS requirement from Spring17 release
Feed is now called Chatter in SF1 navigation

Wave / Analytics
Embed Wave Dashboards on LEX Home Page or any Lightning Page created using App Builder
Wave Dashboard designer is GA Prebuilt templates available with layout for desktop / mobile / apple
watch.

Lets unleash
possibilities

India | USA | UK | Germany | Sweden | Belgium | France | Switzerland | UAE | Singapore | Australia | Japan | China

Customization & Security

External Objects Use in Reports, Feed based layouts & enhanced Search.
Associate Permission set to permission set licenses.

Development
Improved Lightning App Builder Configure for LEX & Salesforce1 in one go.
LEX App Manager Configure App / Tab per profile

Existing LEX Navigation menus are converted to Lightning Apps in Winter17

Lightning App Icons are uploaded as Chatter Files automatically

Custom Record Lightning App Page Default for All or defined per LEX App
Lightning App Page Templates - Link

Feed rebranded to Chatter in Record Feed layouts

Launch Lightning component from a Global / Object Action in LEX & SF1

Implement using either force:LightningQuickAction or force:LightningQuickActionWithoutHeader interface.

Restrict Custom Lightning components to specific custom objects using <sfdc:object> tag

Development Contd..
Wave Dashboard designer is GA Prebuilt templates available with layout for desktop / mobile / apple
watch.

Replication is GA Similar to Dataflow, but extracts data from SF to Wave Incrementally

Data Manager Prepare & Monitor Datasets
Create a new dataset from existing datasets (multiples) using Data Prep (Beta)
Embed Flows in Lightning Pages with one or two flow screens (Beta for both features)

Process Builder Invoke one process from another

Global Picklist is GA Use global value sets in Picklist dependencies as well.
Global Picklist renamed as Value Sets.

Activate / Deactivate picklist values instead of deleting them.

Update multiple Sharing Rules with object specific locks is GA
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Development Contd..
Update Org-Wide Defaults with Asynchronous Parallel Recalculation (Pilot)
Quick Deploy Time limit increased from 4 to 10 days
Locker Service auto-activation date postponed to Spring17

Clickjack Protection for Legacy Browsers for Visualforce Pages Without Page Header (Critical Update)
Impact on VF pages created using API versions before 27.0 (link)

Apex Stub API for Mocking Framework (Pilot) Streamline and create faster & better performing tests.

Use LDS in Lightning Apps by extending force:slds.

Process 10K batches a day using Bulk API (previous limit was 5K)

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