DF2UFL 2012 Morning Session: Developer's Den Presented by: Joshua Hoskins, User Group Leader, Senior Consultant

1. Developer’s Den
What’s New & What’s on the
Horizon?

2. Joshua Hoskins
Orlando User Group Leader
Twitter: @jhoskins
Blog: http://www.CRMified.com

3. Question: What Spring ‘12 delivered
features are MOST exciting?

4. GA Features
 Cloud Flow Designer
 Enhanced Schema Builder
 Updated Developer Console
 Mobile SDK
 Social Authentication

8. Get Started Today!
 With Spring ‘12, the Flow Designer is now generally
available and native to Salesforce.com. You can
access it directly from your browser:
1. Click Your Name > Setup > App Setup > Create >
Workflows & Approvals.
2. Click New Flow.
Visual Workflow Session by Riptide
TODAY @ 1:30pm Room # 121

9. #forcedotcom Horizon
 Deliver the conveniences and scalability of an
enterprise platform

10. Schema Builder
 Previously, Schema
Builder allowed you to
view your entity
relationships in an easy
manner, but now
provides more
functionality for building
out your data model as
well.
 You can access Schema
Builder via Setup, Quick
Links or on the Create
Objects page within
Setup.

11. Demo Time
 Schema Builder

12. Developer Console
 Support for LARGE
Log Files

13. Developer Console
 Simulated Breakpoints from
YOUR Browser in “The Cloud”

14. Demo Time
 Edit Code within Console
 Visualforce Code Complete
 Set Breakpoints to Debug your Code

15. The Salesforce Mobile SDK
 Slide Body Text

16. OFFSET added to SOQL (Pilot)
 Using OFFSET is helpful for paging into large result sets,
in scenarios where you need to quickly jump to a
particular subset of the entire results. For example, the
following SOQL query returns a result set that skips the
first 100 rows of the full query results:

17. + Concurrent Apex Jobs – YAY!!!
10 25
Before Spring ‘12 New Spring ’12 Limit
 With this higher limit, you can now schedule
more Apex jobs for concurrent execution.

18. Test Method Data Access
 Previously, unit tests would have access to pre-existing
data within your organization, as well as any test data it
creates for the purposes of proving assertions true or
false.
 By default with Salesforce API version 24.0 and later, a
unit test will only see data that it creates.

19. Social Authentication

20. Demo Time
 Social Authentication

22. It’s the little things

23. Developer Resources
 Spring 12 Release Notes
 Metadata API Developer’s Guide
 Discussion Boards
 Developer Preview
 @forcedotcom
 #askforce
 facebook.com/forcedotcom

24. Force.com
 Dynamic Visualforce Components GA
 Supported in production code & managed
packages
 Vary page content or look according to state
 Designed in APEX
 Developer’s Guide details

25. Thank YOU!