Review Dreamforce 15 announcements like Thunder IoT and Salesforce IQ. Demo and review awesome new features in the Winter 16 release like Lightning Experience! Presented at the Nashville Salesforce Users & Developers Group on October 14, 2015.

1. Dreamforce Recap &
Winter 16 Release Notes
Nashville Salesforce Users & Developers Group
October 14, 2015

2. Doug Ayers
4 x Salesforce Certified
Senior Developer @ Virsys12
@DouglasCAyers
github.com/DouglasCAyers
douglascayers.wordpress.com

3. Dreamforce Recap
Watch Keynotes and Sessions
http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF15/
https://www.youtube.com/user/dreamforce/videos
Tell us about your experience! 

4. Salesforce Thunder
Event Processing Engine
Connected Devices
If..Then.. Actions
http://sforce.co/1LLV9a1
(quick video)

5. Salesforce IQ
Intelligence from Email
Filters & Surfaces Opptys
that need your attention
Mobile App & Chrome Extension
http://sforce.co/1OBxj68
(quick video)

6. Winter 16 Release Notes
http://docs.releasenotes.salesforce.com/
Read online, searchable, download PDF
http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/calendar
Check to see when you will be upgraded
http://sforce.co/1dUdze4
Release Readiness & Feature Adoption Group

7. NEW: Lightning Experience
Watch Global Preview - http://sforce.co/1EiGKFz
Webinar Series - http://bit.ly/1LIPt0v
Learn with Trailhead Modules
Admins – Starting with Lightning Experience
Admins – Migrating to Lightning Experience
Sales Reps – Using Lightning Experience
Developers – Lightning Experience

9. Schedule Multiple Groups of Actions
And scheduled actions always use current record data
rather than the values when the action was scheduled

10. Replicate a Picklist Field in a Flow Screen

11. Changes to Custom Fields
More Roll-Up Summary Fields: 25 (up from 10)
Add up to 500 values to Multi-Select Picklists
Pilot: Restricted Picklists
Pilot: Global PicklistsLearn more formula & analytics tricks from SteveMo
http://www.slideshare.net/Panayainc/stevemo

12. Restricted Picklists (pilot)

13. Global Picklists (pilot)

14. Custom Lookup Fields on Activities
Add custom lookup fields on Task/Event obj
No longer limited to “Related To” / “Name”
Each lookup field adds new Related List
Sorts by ActivityDate DESC (can’t change)

15. Set Audit Fields on Record Create &
Update Records with Inactive Owners
New Permissions
No longer have to contact Salesforce Support!
First enable feature at Setup | User Interface
Set audit fields, such as Created By and Last Modified
By, when you create a record (API only)
Update owner and sharing-based fields on records with
inactive owners (previously you’d get error on save)

16. Notes & Attachments Finally Graduate!
Have their own dedicated Related Lists
Notes support rich-text and sharing like Files
Files support sharing and revisions and syncing
Consider migrating to Files & Notes
https://douglascayers.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/
salesforce-convert-attachments-to-chatter-files/

17. Chatter Rich-Text Posts

18. Mute Chatter Posts

19. Mute Chatter Posts
Posts unmute when you
are @mentioned, or
You manually unmute post
New Muted filter to see
posts you have muted

20. Toggle Search Visibility of Custom Objects
New option on Custom Object Definition Detail page
Previously, only objects without tabs weren’t searchable

21. Access Salesforce During Maintenance
Access Salesforce in read-only mode
Browse most records and reports
Can’t add, edit, or delete data
Can’t perform any action that would modify data

22. Deployments: Choose Test Options
Choose which tests to run during deployment
For production, chosen tests must meet 75% coverage
Default – no tests to sandbox; local tests to production
Run All Tests – all non-managed & managed tests (slow)
Run Local Tests – all non-managed tests (faster)
Run Specified Tests (fastest)

23. Sandbox Enhancements
Auto Activate New Sandboxes – don’t wait
Let Users Manage Sandboxes without
“Modify All” permission – non-admins

24. Apex: Set Who Receives Exception Emails

25. Apex: Lock/Unlock Records
without an Approval Process
 Setup | Workflows & Approvals | Process Automation Settings
Approval.lock( record )
Approval.unlock( record )
Use Cases
Process Builder or Triggers lock/unlock records per criteria
Lock records without using an approval process

26. Apex: Platform Cache
Session Cache – stores data for individual user sessions
Org Cache – stores data that any user in org can use
Cache computationally complex data to save time
get(key)
put(key, value)
contains(key)
… many more methods!

27. REQUIRESCRIPT doesn’t run on page load
The REQUIRESCRIPT resources aren’t included in the page
until the user clicks the custom JavaScript button or link
Affects things like…
Custom Home Page Links loading Google Analytics
Custom Sidebar Links that manipulate the page
Anything you didn’t plan for the user
to have to click to cause the javascript
to execute

28. Writable External Objects!

29. Thank You!