The document outlines the main changes in the Salesforce Summer '12 release, including new functionalities for Chatter Messenger, multi-contact tasks, improved product search, and enhanced case feeds. Additional enhancements include updates to reports and dashboards, Apex improvements, and Force.com enhancements such as UI changes and new flow capabilities. Notably, master-detail records can now be re-parented, and incoming email snapshots are introduced for debugging.

1. Salesforce Summer 12
Main Changes Summary
Out of Scope: Knowledge, Mobile,
Data.com, API
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2. Main Changes
• Chatter Messenger
– Needs to be activated
– Can be integrated into visualforce pages
• Multi Contact Tasks
– Needs to be activated
– Allow you to connect a task to up to 10 contacts,
one of which is defined as the main contact
– Will not be returned by queries on Task in code
saved in API 24 or below
– Do not work with old Office integration to
Salesforce (connect to outlook)
Created by Tal Carmi, Salesforce Specialist

3. Main Changes
• Improved “Search & Add” Products
• Cases
– New case feeds functionality
– New case feed visualforce components
• Chatter Answers is now available in
Partner/Customer portals
• Reports Home Page
– You can now drag reports between folders
– Different icons for report and dashboard
Created by Tal Carmi, Salesforce Specialist

4. Main Changes
• Reports & Dashboards
– In joined reports, formulas can now include values
from different blocks
– Charts can be added to joined reports
– Charts can now be defined regardless of the
underlying report’s grouping or summary fields
– Combination charts are now available in
dashboards and not only in reports
– Report Timeout Warning – a warning that appears
if the system suspects a report may timeout,
needs to be enabled
Created by Tal Carmi, Salesforce Specialist

5. Main Changes
• Reports
– New date-literals are available
• Force.com & Setup
– Visual workflows now support sub-flows (you can
incorporate an existing flow as a part of another
flow)
– New way to read/write to flow variables
– Flow sorting & UI enhancements
– Flows can be accessed and used by visualforce
pages
Created by Tal Carmi, Salesforce Specialist

6. Main Changes
• Force.com & Setup
– Describe for field sets is now available (i.e. get
what fields are included in a given field set)
– The development mode footer can be disabled
– Workspaces are now available in the developer
console
– Schema Builder is now available and you can
create & edit objects and fields within it
– Permission sets can now define which tabs a user
can see
Created by Tal Carmi, Salesforce Specialist

7. Main Changes
• Apex
– JSON Methods improvements in Apex
– New System.Type methods (allows to dynamically
create an instance of any type)
– Asynchronous processes are now run at the end of
a test class if the StartTest/StopTest are not
specified (from API 25)
– List.sort can now be used on lists of non-primitive
data types (i.e. custom classes or sObjects)
– SOQL “Offset” is now available (queries the
records after “jumping” x records)
Created by Tal Carmi, Salesforce Specialist

8. Main Changes
• Additional Enhancements
– Log-in as any user (activation through Salesforce)
– Data export size has increased
– Recent Items in setup (beta)
– Incoming email snapshot (helpful to debug email
services)
– Master-Detail records can be re-parented (i.e. change
the parent of a child record)
– New lookup behaviors (main one – can automatically
delete related records when the parent is deleted)
– Time dependent workflows can re-trigger workflows
Created by Tal Carmi, Salesforce Specialist