This is an overview of the key developer changes that the Spring '14 release to the Salesforce.com platform is going to bring. From Salesforce 1 to the Developer Console. The presentation was delivered at the South West UK Developer User Group on March 5th by Force.com MVP Chris Lewis and Community Organiser Simon Lawrence.

1. Salesforce Spring ‘14
Developer Overview
This is the slide deck for the presentation delivered at the
South West UK Salesforce Developers User Group
March 5th 2014
For more information please visit our blogs at
http://srlawr.blogspot.co.uk/
and
http://christopheralunlewis.blogspot.co.uk/

2. Simon Lawrence
SW Community Leader
Certified Force.com Developer
Christopher Alun Lewis
Force.com MVP
Certified Advanced Developer

3. Salesforce Spring ‘14
The most important thing about any Salesforce release is…
The new logo.

4. Key Dates
 February 7 and 8: Sandboxes upgraded
 February 14: NA1 upgraded
 March 7: The second release weekend

This is when another set of instances -- NA6, NA7, NA8, NA9, and
NA13
 March 14 and 15: The final release weekend

All remaining Salesforce systems will be upgraded over this weekend
in March. This is also the upgrade weekend for any Sandboxes you’ve
opted not to include in the Sandbox preview

5. Key Developer Changes
 Salesforce 1
 New Sandboxes
 Even more Developer Console
 Visualforce updates
 Apex Updates
 SOQL, Chatter, Autonumbers, Enhanced Lookups

6. Salesforce 1
 Salesforce 1
 Custom Apps + Partner Apps
 Custom Tabs + VisualForce
 Custom Actions – Take photos / Provide Feedback (Contextually
aware)
 Salesforce A
 Administrators can reset passwords from mobile
 Activate/Freeze accounts
 Private AppStores
 Customized/limited by role, department or theme

7. Salesforce 1 Chatter
 Salesforce file sync
 Drag and drop files to a local folder on your PC
 Automatically sync/update/view files through PC or Mobile
 Think Google Drive/Dropbox for Chatter files
 Endorse knowledgeable people with badges for
Communities
 Private messages to Community members
 Topics can now be added to records directly

8. Partial Data Sandboxes
 New Sandbox type between Config Only and Full Copy
 Contains all metadata
 Reports, Dashboards, price books, products apps
 Can contain up to 5Gb of record and file data
 Max 10,000 records per object type
 Can be refreshed every 5 days

9. Sandbox e-mail refresh
 Before Spring ‘14
tester@domain.com
tester@domain.com.sandboxname
 After Spring ‘14
tester@domain.com
tester=domain.com@example.com
 Any time the sandbox is refreshed, users who want to
continue receiving sandbox emails must modify their
email address.

10. Developer Console Updates
 Search and replace within files
 Standard keyboard shortcuts work
 Use CTRL+SHIFT+H to search files not even in current
view
 Change file API version from the DC

11. Developer Console Updates
 Full screen file editing using browser F11 control
 New pre-built themes and font setting preferences

12. Developer Console Updates
 Context Menus
 Right click on tabs for file “Save options”
 Right click on log headers to open or download file
 Clear test coverage statistics
No half
coverage

13. Visualforce
 Visualforce development mode disabled in preview
 Visualforce page property “Mobile Ready” renamed to
“Salesforce Classic Ready”
 <apex:actionFunction> now supports a
namespace attribute to avoid Javascript function
name collisions

14. Changing Apex Attributes
 <apex:page title=“”> behaves more consistently
 <analytics:reportChart> now in GA
 PageReference URIs Support Anchors
PageReference p=new PageReference('/home.jsp#logTicket');

15. Elsewhere
 Limits.getScriptStatements fixed to respect legacy
code
 Chatter in Apex
 ConnectApi provides static access to Chatter data
 Auto-number fields can optionally not be consumed by
tests using Independent Auto-Number Sequence

16. Elsewhere
 Compound Address and Geolocation fields can be
included in SOQL SELECT statements over the APIs
 SELECT BillingAddress FROM …
 File storage per user licence increased from 612Mb to 2Gb
 Enhanced lookup now searches all fields in User and
Opportunities
 Cannot start searches with %
 Cannot search a single character
 If you free type and save, a search is automatically performed

17. That’s your lot
Read the full 339 page Release Notes document at:
http://www.salesforce.com/newfeatures/

18. ELEVATE LONDON – March 21st
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19. WORLD CUP HACK - BRISTOL
 Sunday April 13th 2014 10am – 10pm @ The Gryphon
 Design, Develop, Test and Deploy a Salesforce Org
based World Cup 2014 Company Sweepstake System
 Big screen
 Free food