Written by: Amber Butler 1/15/2009 6:59 PM
The Spring '09 release of Salesforce and Force.com is scheduled to go live over the first two weekends in February. View the maintenance schedule if you'd like to see exactly when your SF instance will be ugraded. Be sure to check out the full release notes to get all of the details, but here are a few of the new features that we are most excited about: Enhanced Page Layout Editor: After just a few minutes of experimenting with the new page layout editor in our pre-release org, I believe this update is my favorite new feature. Some highlights: fewer clicks to do just about anything, lots of “drag and drop”, add blank spaces for better field alignment (I’ve wished for this capability forever), and the toolbar floats as you scroll vertically. But the absolute best part of this enhancement is the ability to click “Edit Layout” directly from a record (without going to Setup) and make any changes. Click Save and then you are taken directly BACK to the record you were working on … without being dumped back into Setup. Perfect!
The Spring '09 release of Salesforce and Force.com is scheduled to go live over the first two weekends in February. View the maintenance schedule if you'd like to see exactly when your SF instance will be ugraded.
Be sure to check out the full release notes to get all of the details, but here are a few of the new features that we are most excited about:
Enhanced Page Layout Editor: After just a few minutes of experimenting with the new page layout editor in our pre-release org, I believe this update is my favorite new feature. Some highlights: fewer clicks to do just about anything, lots of “drag and drop”, add blank spaces for better field alignment (I’ve wished for this capability forever), and the toolbar floats as you scroll vertically.
(This feature will be enabled automatically for all orgs, so no need to do anything … but if you want to revert back to the old editor, go to Setup > User Interface.)
Content Delivery: Pretty cool - you can convert your documents (PPTs, Word docs, etc.) into a web page and then track how often the content is viewed or downloaded. Allows you to make a doc only available for a specified period of time, and lets you set permissions as to whether or not the doc can be downloaded. One potential drawback is that hyperlinks within the document won't work on the delivered web page.
Email-to-Case: It's now available as a service using the Force.com email server, rather than having to host it yourself.
Campaign Enhancements: Changes make it easier to manage campaign members, including a “Campaign Members” related list on the campaign detail page and a new “Manage Members” page. New Features for Custom Summary Formula Fields: Two new functions are available to use for custom summary formulas for summary reports. In addition, you can choose where you want custom summary formulas to appear in reports (i.e. you may want summary totals for individual groupings, but not a grand total). Critical Updates: This new section in Setup shows any updates that may affect your existing customizations. Admins will also see a notice when they click on Setup. During the opt-in period for each update, you can manually activate and deactivate the updates while you test out your customizations. Dashboard/Report Folder Access: Until now, folders that were not shared with anyone (including the folder owner) were inaccessible. Please tell me I’m not the only one that has ever “lost” a folder because of making this mistake! Thankfully, these unshared folders will now be visible to any users who have the “View All Data” permission. Suggested Duplicates for Ideas: When a user enters the title of a new idea, a list of possible duplicates is automatically generated. Salesforce Mobile Enhancements: Lots of new mobile enhancements, mostly centered around the iPhone application. “Time-Picker” for Events: When you click inside the start time and end time fields, you get a nice little drop-down with half-hour increments.
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