This document provides information on new features for Salesforce administrators in the Winter '20 release. It summarizes enhancements to the calendar, reports and dashboards, mobile app, Lightning app builder for mobile, and ideas delivered. It also introduces two product experts, Rado RAKOTOARIMANAN and Martin LEZER, who will discuss Flow for developers and Lightning message service.
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4. Calendar in Lightning Experience
Calendar is getting better and better!
Key feature enhancements include:
• Availability view allows you to see
your coworker’s availability when
scheduling meetings
• See the calendar view you used
most recently without selecting a
view from the dropdown
• Dig into event details faster without
clicking into an event
Read the blog for moar details!
5. Reports & Dashboards Highlights
Key feature enhancements include:
• RTL (Right to Left) Support
• Text Wrapping on Report Run Page
• Report & Dashboard Lists (Created by Me,
All Reports, etc) on Lightning and on
Mobile App
• Row Level Formulas (1 Row Level Formula
field per report, Summarize, Group, Filter
or use row level formula in custom
summary formula)
Read MOAR about Reports &
Dashboards
Calculate and filter within a report
6. Reports & Dashboard Beta Features
Unique Row Count
Calculate unique number of field values per
column
• Up to 3 unique row counts per report
• Almost all Field Types supported except
for Text Area, Encrypted fields, or Blob
• All report formats supported (Tabular,
Summary, Matrix, or Joined)
Field to Field Filtering
Filter Reports by comparing one report
field with another report field
• Up to 4 field to field filters per report
• Field Types supported: Number
(including percent, currency) and
Date/DateTime
• Edit field to field filter in Lightning
Report Builder or Report Run Page
7. The New Salesforce Mobile App
Switch to the mobile way of work
Next Generation Experience
Work fast with an app that knows who you are
and what you need, powered by Lightning
Voice-Enabled
Tap less, talk more using Einstein Voice (Beta)
Intelligent
Drive smart decisions with Einstein Analytics
Dashboards
Faster App Dev
Customize and build mobile apps faster with
low code
8. Lightning App Builder for Mobile
Use Quick Start to get set up
Customize using App Builder:
• Give your users Custom Record
Pages on their phones
• Show or hide Record Page
components by device
• Make your Lightning Apps
accessible on phone, desktop,
or both
Read MOAR about Lightning
Experience on Mobile!
10. List Views & Topics
View related records on a topic
detail page
Filter object list views by topic
Printable list views
Access Recycle Bin in Lightning
with a sortable list view
Ideas Delivered
Read moar about List
Views and Topics
11. Lightning Record Pages For Specific Record Types
Ideas Delivered
Assign a Lightning Record
Page to a specific Record Type
on an object, just like page
layouts.
Now you can make Lightning
Record Pages even more
useful.
Start thinking about creating
different Lightning Record
Pages for your objects!
12. Opportunity Contact Role (OCR) Customization
Ideas Delivered
Customize Opportunity
Contact Roles like you would
any other object. Use them in
Process Builder and flows, and
even triggers too.
For example, nonprofits can
use the Opportunity Contact
Role to identify if someone is a
donor.
13. Where Is This Field Used?
Check a field’s references and
find reports using it.
With the click of a button, view
the references to a custom field
before you edit it, such as
references in a formula, layout,
or Apex class.
Ideas Delivered
14. Lookup Fields in Flow Builder
Instead of having to create a
variable, then assign that
element to the variable... now
you just need to look it up.
It’s just one step to lookup!
Ideas Delivered
16. Two Big Features to Discuss Today
Flow for
Developers
Lightning
Message
Service
More details on the highlights covered in
this deck can be found at:
sforce.co/learnmoar
17. Aura Components in the ui Namespace Are Being Retired
A retirement party for our friends the Aura UI Namespace!
Everything in the UI: namespace (ie: ui:button) are
retiring, Summer ‘21
Use lightning: namespace (ie: lightning:button)
components as a replacement.
Not sure how to translate from Ui: -> Lightning:
check out the release notes
sforce.co/dpl-
namespace
18. CSS that Cascades!
Share CSS Style Rules
1. Create a LWC that only contains a .css file
2. In another component’s css, @import ‘myCss.css’
3. Reference the styles defined in the template as you normally would
4. Profit!
19. LWC: Navigate directly to an App or a page in an App
You can now create LWC Components that link directly to an App
Use the new ‘standard__app’ type, and ‘appTarget’ keys to specify where to go
20. BETA: Metadata Component Dependencies
Write SOQL, get dependency graphs for Metadata
Tooling API based
Help break up your org by understanding what a given piece of
metadata depends on
Up to 2000 rows returned per query
public class YourClass {
public void updateAccount(Account acc, String value){
acc.yourField__c = value;
update(acc);
}
}
SELECT MetadataComponentName, MetadataComponentType
FROM MetadataComponentDependency
WHERE RefMetadataComponentType = 'YourClass'
MetadataComponentId: "01p000000000SOMEID"
MetadataComponentName: "YourClass"
MetadataComponentNamespace: null
MetadataComponentType: "ApexClass"
RefMetadataComponentId: "00N000000000SOMEID"
RefMetadataComponentName: "yourField"
RefMetadataComponentNamespace: null
RefMetadataComponentType: "CustomField"
21. Lightning Message Service
Native client-side communication framework in Lightning Experience
Simplified Communication
Easily send complex data across the DOM between
Visualforce, Aura, and LWC without complicated
Javascript
Works with Utility Bar
Message between main Lightning page and popped-
out utility bar components
Developer Preview Winter ‘20
Available for Developer Edition and Sandbox
NEW
22. Lightning Message Channels
Metadata backbone of Message Service API
Metadata Benefits
Central location for Message Channel
definition
Referential integrity enforcement
Packaging support
Simple and Lightweight
Only one required field when creating a new
Message Channel
Namespace Isolation by Default
Option to expose communication to
components in different namespaces
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<LightningMessageChannel xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
<masterLabel>ModelChanged</masterLabel>
<isExposed>true</isExposed>
<description>Model changes.</description>
<lightningMessageFields>
<fieldName>recordId</fieldName>
<description>Record Id that changed</description>
</lightningMessageFields>
<lightningMessageFields>
<fieldName>recordData</fieldName>
<description>Data in the record that changed</description>
</lightningMessageFields>
</LightningMessageChannel>
23. Sending and Receiving Messages
Simple and flexible
Familiar Usage Interface
APIs are natural to developers of each
Salesforce UI Framework
Flexible Message Patterns
Messages are serializable JSON Objects
Message contents can be customized at time
of publish
Global Messaging Support
Publish to all components
Future: publish to visible components
handleClick() {
const message = {
recordId: "some string",
recordData: {
value: "some value"
}
};
publish(this.context, SAMPLEMC, message);
}
handleMessage(message) {
this.receivedMessage = message ? JSON.stringify(message, null, 't') : 'no message
payload';
}
24. Screen Flow Improvements
LWCs in Flow Screens
Create beautiful & seamless experiences from Aura
Components, Lightning Web Components, and
any of 20+ standard Flow components, side-by-
side
Conditional Visibility
Show or hide fields & components without having to
write a single line of code
New Record Lookup Component
Ever growing set of standard Flow components for
your app building consumption
Generally
Available
Winter ‘19
25. Apex-Defined Data Types
Decouple Tech Concerns & LOB
Concerns
Enable admins to implement business logic so
that you can focus on the meaty technical
problems
Collection Operators
Manipulate lists of complex web objects directly in
the Flow design time & run time experience
Compatible with LWC
Supported out of the box as part of LWCs in Flow
screens