The document summarizes the Force.com customization enhancements in the Spring '14 release. Key enhancements include the new Data Import Wizard, which provides a unified interface for importing data. Feed-based page layouts allow records to be viewed in both a feed and details view. Workflow rules now support launching flows using a new Flow Trigger action (pilot). Additional enhancements include permission set improvements, security login enhancements, sharing sets, and lookup filter expansions.

1. Spring ’14 Release
The Developer’s Goodies
Roy Gilad

2. Force.com Customization
Enhancements

3. Force.com Customization Enhancements Summary
Release
Type
Automatically visible
to all users. No setup
required.
Data Import Wizard
GA
GA
Launch Flows from
Workflow Rules
Pilot
Business Logic and
Process Automation
Enhancements
GA
Debug Logs for Flow
Triggers
Pilot
Permission Set
Enhancements
GA
Security Login
Enhancements
GA
Sharing Sets
GA
Lookup Filter
Enhancements
GA
Field Sets
GA
Not automatically
visible. Feature
is available
but requires
some setup.
P
Feed-Based Page Layouts
Automatically
visible to all
Admins. No
setup required.
Feature
Contact
salesforce.com to
enable this feature.
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4. Force.com Customization Enhancements Summary
Feature
Release
Type
TEXT() Function Picklist
Expanded Support
GA
Non-monthly Usage Based
Entitlements
GA
Field History Data
Retention
GA
User List View: Is Frozen
Field
GA
Components Category in
the Page Layout Editor
GA
Enhanced Lookups for
Users Enhancements
GA
Contact
salesforce.com to
enable this feature.
Salesforce Edition
Salesforce
License
EE, PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
Pilot
Enhanced Session ID
Management for VF
Not automatically
visible. Feature
is available
but requires
some setup.
P
GA
Hide Standard and
Custom Apps from the App
Launcher
Automatically visible
to all users. No setup
required.
Automatically
visible to all
Admins. No
setup required.
n/a
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5. Force.com Customization Enhancements Summary
Feature
Enhanced Lookups for
Opportunities
Release
Type
GA
Automatically visible
to all users. No setup
required.
Automatically
visible to all
Admins. No
setup required.
Not automatically
visible. Feature
is available
but requires
some setup.
Contact
salesforce.com to
enable this feature.
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REFERENCE: For a full list of Force.com features
and enhancements, please see the release notes.
Salesforce Edition
Salesforce
License
Personal, GE., PE,
PxE, UE, DE
n/a

6. What is the Data Import Wizard?
The Data Import Wizard provides a unified interface that lets you import data for a number of standard Salesforce
objects as well as custom objects.

7. What is the Data Import Wizard? (cont.)
The streamlined user interface makes uploading data files and mapping data fields easier than ever.

8. What is the Data Import Wizard? (cont.)
A simple, elegant feedback page tells you number of imported records, count of records from mapped fields, and
data that is not included in the import.
NOTE: Review the Import Wizard comparison table to see a list of
differences between the old and new wizards.

9. What are Feed-Based Page Layouts?
Make it easier for your users to work with account, contact, lead, opportunity, and custom object records by
creating feed-based layouts, which include two separate views: one for the record’s feed and one for its details.
4
1 Toggle between tabs to
switch between the feed
view and the detail view.
1
2
5
2 Create related records or
tasks from the publisher.
3 Record feed shows
activity on the record.
3
6
4
Custom buttons or links
your Admin has added.
Follow and see who else
5 is following the record.
Choose which information
6 in the feed you see with
filters.

10. What are the Enhancements to Workflow?
Spring ‘14 introduces a new workflow action, Flow Trigger (Pilot), which launches a flow when the workflow rule
criteria are met.
The new feature allows users the ability to trigger logic only Flows from a Workflow Rule:
 No longer requires a person to click a button or URL to kick off the flow
 Combines the trigger automation from a Workflow rule with the power of Flow to do work on multiple objects
 Powerful enough to replace some of your apex triggers.
NOTE: Flow triggers have special behaviors and limitations. See “Flow
Trigger Considerations – Pilot” in Salesforce Help for more information.

11. What are the Enhancements to Visual Workflow?
 Flows now support DateTime as a data type.
 Automatic Picklist Support shows available choices
in the Cloud Flow Designer.
Trigger a logic-only Flow from a Workflow Rule
(Pilot):
 sObject variables (Pilot) are available through the
Launch Flows from Workflow Rules (Pilot) program.
Flow now supports passing a reference to a
salesforce object within the Flow so that you don’t
have to map all the individual fields to variables. You
can access all the available fields in an object and
operate on them in a Flow.
 Collections & Looping (Pilot) - The ability to
operate on more than one record at a time via
Collections is now available in the Pilot. Query
multiple records, iterate and/or operate on each one
and save the batch.
 Debug logs now available for (Pilot) Flows triggered
from Workflow Rules
NOTE: Flow triggers have special behaviors and limitations. See “Flow
Trigger Considerations – Pilot” in Salesforce Help for more information.

12. What are the Enhancements to Permission Sets?
With Spring ‘14, you can now assign multiple users and revoke multiple user assignments from a permission set.
Assignments
button is in the
toolbar now
Add Assignments
takes you to the User
List Views page
Easily remove
users
assignments
NOTE: With the addition of the Manage Assignments button on permission
set pages, the Assigned users button and page has been removed.

13. What are the Enhancements to Permission Sets? (cont.)
Messages tell you
which users were
assigned and
which ones weren’t
Use existing list
views or create
new ones
This is the same
validation we do when
assigning any
permission set
Feedback screen
showing you the
results of assigning
users

14. What are the Additional Enhancements to Permission Sets?
 Some permission set licenses provide object permissions, such as “Read” access to cases. To support this
change, we also allow you to assign page layouts to users who received object permissions through a
permission set license.
 The Permission Set License Assignments page has been redesigned to make it easier for you to determine
which permission set licenses to assign to your users.

15. What are the Enhancements to Security?
A number of security enhancements have been made in Spring ‘14 to protect both your data and applications.
Below are the enhancements specific to logging in to Salesforce.
When logging in to Salesforce:
 You can now hide your answer to a password reset question.
 Salesforce’s login page remembers usernames from past logins, across multiple organizations or custom
domains, making it easier for users to keep track of their multiple accounts.
 Admins can:
– Specify a login_hint for the username to the authorization endpoint.
– Add a Custom Domain link to the Salesforce Login page if they created a custom domain for their
organization using My Domains.
REFERENCE: For a full list of the Spring ‘14 enhancements to
security, please see the Release Notes.

16. What are the Enhancements to Sharing?
Sharing improves your control over who sees what. With Spring ‘14, use Sharing Sets to grant portal or
community users access to records that are associated with their accounts or contacts, based on their profiles.
With sharing sets, you can:
 Grant users access to records.
 Grant users access to other users.
NOTE: This example
grants your portal
users access to users
whose contacts are
related to the
accounts identified on
the portal users’
managers records.

17. What are the Additional Force.com Customization Enhancements?
 Lookup filters are now supported on more objects, including:
– Campaigns, Cases, Contracts, Ideas, Leads, Opportunities, Products, and Social Personas.
– A Related Lookup Filters node has been added in Setup to support all newly supported objects.
 With Spring ‘14, Field Sets are now generally available.
 The TEXT() formula function now:
– Supports additional rule types as well as custom buttons and links.
– Converts picklist values to text in approval rules, approval step rules, workflow rules, auto-response rules,
escalation rules, and custom buttons and links.
 Use the App Menu settings to control whether users see only connected apps in their App Launcher.
 Usage-based entitlements are no longer limited to monthly resources. The Usage-based Entitlements related list
now includes columns for “Resource ID” and “Frequency”.
 With Spring ‘14, Field History Data Retention (Pilot) lets you specify date ranges for retaining field history.
 URL pattern matching for text area and long text area fields has been improved, allowing for more valid URLs to
be recognized.
 The way session ID management works for Visualforce pages has been enhanced, providing additional
protection for user sessions across Visualforce pages.

18. What are the Additional Force.com Customization Enhancements? (cont.)
 In user list views, Is Frozen is now included in the filter criteria, allowing you to create a list of frozen user
accounts.
 The enhanced page layout editor now includes the Components category in the palette for some entities.

19. Force.com Development
Enhancements

20. Force.com Development Enhancements Summary
Feature
Release
Type
Partial Data Sandbox
GA
Sharing Sets Available in
Change Sets
GA
Developer Console
Enhancements
GA
Visualforce Remote
Objects
GA
Canvas Apps Accessible
from Salesforce1
GA
Hide Publisher Header
and Share Button
GA
Debugging in a Canvas
App
GA
Using Events between a
Canvas App and VF Page
GA
P
P
P
Pilot
Canvas Apps in the
Publisher and Feed
Automatically visible
to all users. No setup
required.
Automatically
visible to all
Admins. No
setup required.
Not automatically
visible. Feature
is available
but requires
some setup.
Contact
salesforce.com to
enable this feature.
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Product
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*Can only use the Oauth Access method unless profiles, page layouts, and the API
have been enabled.

21. Force.com Development Enhancements Summary
Feature
Release
Type
Unified Deployment
Monitoring Console
GA
Read Call in the Metadata
API
GA
Place Order API
Pilot
Address and Geolocation
Compound Fields in the
SOAP and REST APIs
Beta
Not automatically
visible. Feature
is available
but requires
some setup.
Contact
salesforce.com to
enable this feature.
P
n/a
n/a
*PE, EE, PxE, UE, DE
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Salesforce
License
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
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Salesforce Edition
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
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GA
Allocate API Limit App
Quotas
Automatically visible
to all users. No setup
required.
Automatically
visible to all
Admins. No
setup required.
n/a
UE, EE, DE,
Database.com
n/a
UE, EE, DE,
Database.com
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* Requires add-on for API access.
REFERENCE: For a full list of Force.com features
and enhancements, please see the release notes.

22. What are the Enhancements to Sandbox?
Generally Available in Spring ‘14, Partial Data sandboxes include all of your organizations Metadata and add a
selected amount of your production organization’s data that you define using a sandbox template.
Developer
Developer Pro
Partial Data
Full
Refresh Interval
1 Day
1 Day
5 Days
29 Days
Includes Setup
Configuration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Copies Data Records
No
No
Yes
Yes
Sandbox Templates/
Sampling
No & No
No & No
Yes & Yes (10,000
records/object)
Yes & No (Full
Copy/ Object)
None
5
10
15
200MB
1GB
(~500K records)
5GB
(2.5M records)
Match production
Bundled Developer
Sandboxes
Sandbox Size

23. What are the Enhancements to Sandbox? (cont.)
 The page for monitoring deployments has been
redesigned and now provides real-time and in-depth
statistics of Metadata API-based deployments.
 Administrators and developers now have new ways
to use change sets and external tools for
deployments.
– When running a deployment, the Deployment
Status page shows you the real-time progress of
your current deployment.
– Sharing sets are now included in Change Sets.
– After all components have been deployed without
errors, Apex tests will start executing, if required or
enabled.
– Quickly deploy Site.com and Site.com
Communities sites using change sets.

24. What are the Enhancements to the Developer Console?
 Access basic search and replace functionality in the
Developer Console using standard keyboard
shortcuts.
Function
Shortcut
Search
CTRL+F
Find Next
CTRL+G
Find Previous
CTRL+SHIFT+G
Replace
CTRL+SHIFT+F
Replace All
CTRL+SHIFT+R
 Change the API version of an entity directly from the
Developer Console’s Source Code Editor.
 Toggle full screen editing from the Developer
Console Source Code Editor by clicking F11.
 Set the font size and display theme in your
preferences.
 Refresh test and code coverage results by clicking
Test | Clear Test Data.
 App publishers who use the License Management
App (LMA) to log in to subscriber organizations to
support and troubleshoot their packages can use
the View State tab to debug their Visualforce
pages.
 The Visualforce Development Mode footer isn’t
available in Visualforce page preview windows
launched from the Developer Console.

25. What are the Enhancements to Visualforce?
DEFINITION: JavaScript remoting is a popular, powerful, and efficient method for
building web apps with Visualforce, especially for creating pages for use in
Salesforce1, or working with JavaScript libraries.
 Spring ’14 brings Visualforce Remote Objects (Pilot) which are proxy objects that allow basic DML operations
on sObjects directly from JavaScript
– Access definitions, written in Visualforce using the new Remote Objects components, generate a set of
JavaScript proxy objects.
– Data access functions, written in JavaScript, use the proxy objects to perform create, select, update, and
delete operations on your data.
 The namespace attribute has been added, allowing you to specify a JavaScript namespace to add to functions
generated by the <apex:actionFunction> component.
 Use the <analytics:reportChart> component to add Salesforce report charts to a Visualforce page.
REFERENCE: For a full list of Spring ‘14 Visualforce
Enhancements, please see the Release Notes.

26. What are the Enhancements to Force.com Canvas?
With Spring ‘14, Force.com Canvas enables you to expose your canvas apps as publisher actions.

27. What are the Enhancements to Force.com Canvas? (cont.)
Expose your canvas apps as feed items, giving users information about what’s happening inside of Salesforce
and information about record and groups they’re following.
Click the link to
expand or collapse
the Canvas App in the
feed.
The Canvas App will
expand directly inside
the Chatter Feed

28. What are the Enhancements to Force.com Canvas? (cont.)
For organizations that use Salesforce1, you can now expose a canvas app in the navigation menu to save time for
your users accessing apps on mobile devices.
Clicking the publis
will bring up the Can
App in the publish
(including the Chat
lifecycle events)
Canvas Quick
Actions on the
Publisher Global
Layout will appear in
the Salesforce One
Publisher

29. What are the Enhancements to Force.com Canvas? (cont.)
 Make your Force.com Canvas app appear in the publisher just the way you want by removing the publisher
header and the Share button.
 Force.com Canvas now provides methods that you can use to publish and subscribe to events between our
Canvas App and the parent Visualforce page.
 When using the Force.com Canvas SDK, you can enable debug mode to make troubleshooting easier.
REFERENCE: For a full list of changed objects and fields
associated with the enhancements to Force.com Canvas, please
see the Release Notes.

30. What are the Enhancements to Apex Code?
 New Classes, Methods, and Interfaces have been added to support the new features and products in the Spring
‘14 release. For a full list of new Classes, Methods and Interfaces, see the release notes.
 New Chatter in Apex classes and methods have been added in Spring ’14, making it simpler and easier to create
custom Chatter experiences in Salesforce.
 The query timeout in the batch Apex start method has been increased to 10 minutes.
 A new option has been added to ensure that auto-number fields in your organization’s records don’t have
gaps due to test records created in Apex tests.
 Analytics API is now available in Apex, so you can easily query and consume report results.

31. What are the API Enhancements?
Using the Unified Deployment Monitoring Console, you have one place to monitor all your deployments with
detailed insight into the progress, error messages, and upcoming jobs, all in real time!
Real-time
deployment
tracking with error
messages
Cancel a failing
deploy to fix the
issue
Set It and Forget It
Launch multiple
deployments at the
same time
Streamlined
Steps

32. What are the API Enhancements? (cont.)
Detailed history for
every deployment,
including error
messages
Highlights long
running apex tests to
help improve
deployment time

33. What are the API Enhancements? (cont.)
 With Spring ‘14, we're unlocking the power of the metadata API by allowing you not only to create, update, and
delete your org's configuration, but now read metadata from the same API. In addition, you can now perform all
these actions synchronously to simplify your code.
 The new Place Order API allows customers to generate all the Standard and Custom objects needed to support
Order Capture natively within Salesforce.
 Allocate quotas for various API limits to individual connected apps. These app quotas for API limits (Pilot)
enable you to reserve API capacity for mission-critical connected apps or set a ceiling for API usage of noncritical connected apps.
 Address and geolocation compound fields are available in the SOAP and REST APIs (Beta) in API version
30.0 and later.
– Geolocation fields are accessible as a structured “compound” data type, as well as individual latitude and
longitude elements.
– Standard addresses – addresses built into standard objects in Salesforce – are accessible in the SOAP and
REST APIs as a structured “compound” data type, as well as individual address elements.
REFERENCE: The features listed above only represent a subset
of features in the Spring ‘14 release. For a full list of API
enhancements, please see the Release Notes.

34. Site.com Enhancements

35. Site.com Enhancements Summary
Feature
Automatically visible
Release Type to all users. No setup
required.
Page Level Queries
GA
Widget Enhancements
GA
Custom Property Types
Site.com Versioning
Site.com Metadata API
New Ways to Export
Assets
Improved Page Editing for
Contributors
GA
GA
GA
Not automatically
visible. Feature
is available
but requires
some setup.
Contact
salesforce.com to
enable this feature.
Salesforce Edition
Salesforce
License
P
Personal, GE, PE,
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
n/a
P
Personal, GE, PE,
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
n/a
P
Personal, GE, PE,
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
n/a
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Personal, GE, PE,
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
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PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
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PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
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PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
n/a
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GA
GA
Automatically
visible to all
Admins. No
setup required.
P

36. Site.com Enhancements Summary (cont.)
Feature
Automatically visible
Release Type to all users. No setup
required.
Contributors can add Page
Elements
GA
Live Mode Updates
GA
Clickjack Protection
GA
Automatically
visible to all
Admins. No
setup required.
Not automatically
visible. Feature
is available
but requires
some setup.
Contact
salesforce.com to
enable this feature.
Salesforce Edition
Salesforce
License
P
Personal, GE, PE,
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
n/a
P
Personal, GE, PE,
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
n/a
Personal, GE, PE,
PxE, UE, DE,
Database.com
n/a
P
For a full list of Site.com features and
enhancements, please see the release notes.

37. What are the Enhancements to Site.com?
 With Page Level Queries, customers are able to
specify queries on a page level and use the data
across the page, rather than having to depend only on
data repeaters.
 New custom property types let you create widgets
that are even more versatile and have you flexibility
over how your widgets are reused.
 Site.com contributors can now drag and drop
content blocks and widgets onto the page, move
selectable components around on the page, and edit
the styling of the page.
 As a contributor, you can now add page elements to
any editable areas of a page.
Contributors can
see a Page
Elements menu
from where he/she
can drag drop
components onto
the page
Contributors can choose to move the
selectable components around by
dragging the move icon that shows up.
They can also delete components
using the ‘x’ icon on the right

38. What are the Enhancements to Site.com? (cont.)
Site.com Versioning gives a site.com publisher the ability to quickly revert to a previously published version of the
site, track change history, and view details of the change list.
Users can view the
List of Published
Changes
Users can View Change List Details and
then Restore a Version
NOTE: When working in Site.com Studio, you’re always working on an unpublished
version of your site. When you restore a version, you overwrite your working copy,
not your live site. You must publish the restored version before you see the change
on your live site.

39. What are the Additional Enhancements to Site.com?
 Site.com administrators can now use the Metadata API to seamlessly move site.com sites from Sandbox to
production.
 Designers and site administrators can now export assets separately from all the other site components. This is
useful when using the regular site export feature results in a file over 200MB, or when using the Metadata API.
 When configuring a site, you can select one of three Clickjack Protection options:
– Allow framing by any page (no protection)
– Allow framing by the same origin only (recommended)
– Don’t allow framing by any page (most protection)
 The Company Community Add-on permission set license has been renamed to Company Community for
Force.com.
 Enhancements to Live Mode make it even easier to see what your published site will look like.
– When the page is open, you can use the new Fluid option to reset the pages width and height to 100% after
your preview how the site looks on mobile devices and laptops.

40. Roy Gilad