Salesforce Spring 18 Highlights

WizardCast

Spring is nearly here! Some believe the first evidence is the robin, but they are wrong. It's the Spring release of Salesforce!

The release notes are over 450 pages long. Don't bother reading them, listen as Mark and Brian cover some of the highlights and chat about implications.

00:00:01 Brian experiences a strange mirror xfiles 00:02:05 Joke that won't let you down 00:02:25 Correcting episode count 00:03:30 Daniel Stange convinces us to do advertising 00:03:50 Libsyn Podcast Hosting Affiliate mention. 1 free month with promo code "podmagic" 00:05:26 Join the Salesforce UX Research, signup to help shape the future of Salesforce bit.ly/salesforceux 00:07:10 start of Salesforce Spring 18 discussion 00:07:57 Mark starts reading all 400+ pages of the release notes 00:09:00 GDPR - The new EU privacy laws 00:10:42 Individual Object for GDPR support 00:12:40 GDPR Trailhead module: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/modules/european-union-privacy-law-basics/units/get-to-know-eu-privacy-law 00:14:00 List View Tabs on a user-by-user basis 00:15:44 Lightning UI Theme and Branding 00:16:50 Surveys! Free in Health Cloud otherwise paid add on 00:19:00 Critical updates! New URl Format 00:22:00 Critical Updates! Sharing with AuraEnabled Components 00:22:48 Critical Updates! Removing Instance Names in URLS 00:23:00 Critical Updates! Console change 00:23:40 Critical Updates! API Access for Container access revoked 00:24:33 Accordian Components 00:25:30 Component Visibility Updates with running user 00:26:45 Dashboard Component Embed them everywhere! 00:27:10 Branding... branding... force.com RIP Long Live Lightning Platform. 00:30:50 Lightning Report Builder updates! 00:33:30 Search for report and dashboard folders 00:34:00 Default color scheme of Dashboards makes Mark blue 00:34:20 Einstein Activity Capture. Marks predicts its future cost 00:36:45 Default to not create Opportunity on Lead Convert 00:37:58 Campaign updates for Lightning Experience 00:38:05 Pardot Campaign and Salesforce Campaign get fuzzy 00:39:30 Opportunity Splits are in Lightning Experience 00:39:45 Text improvements on Opportunity Product selector 00:40:28 Quick Action Emails can have predefined values for To, CC, bCC< and Spell check. Plus emails searchable global searchable 00:41:00 Articles can be embeded in the case emails 00:41:15 More service cloud, marcos, knowledge, chat and more 00:42:50 Mass Quick Actions up to 200 items on Cases, Leads, and Custom Objects 00:43:25 Community Updates including Journey Builder 00:45:20 Flow! Upload Files! 00:45:58 Lightning Components in Flow! Shot heard around the world 00:49:38 Turn off the header and footer in Flow 00:50:00 Flow Stages 00:51:00 Flow Actions General Available! 00:51:44 Critical Update in Flow! Execute all Auto-Launch Flow when invoked in Bulk 00:58:28 Pilot: Lightning Flow for Service 01:03:20 We finally close the episode 01:05:30 After music banter