This is the slide deck that was shared at the SFWelly trailblazer community group virtual meeting, Feb 19, 2025, covering the release highlights relating to the Spring 25 Salesforce release that had gone live into Salesforce production orgs the previous weekend. Sarah Whitau and Ben Stokes were the amaziong presenters, followed by Nim Mahatani who spoke about the agent he'd built to access the release notes

1. SFWelly’s
Spring 25 Release
Highlights

2. Today’s (approx) Agenda
1 - 1.10pm: Quick community catchup, group photos
Recording begins…
1.10 - 1.25pm: Sarah’s highlights
1.25 - 1.40pm: Ben’s Highlights
1.40 - 1.50pm: Anna’s updates incl Release Notes Agent
1.50 - 2pm: Q&A / share your favourite new release feature

3. Sarah Whitau
Salesforce Administrator
Ben Stokes
Senior Consultant

4. Sarah Whitau
Waikato-Tainui

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Sarah Whitau - Salesforce Administrator at Waikato-Tainui
Involved with Salesforce since 2006 in Australia
Started as an accidental admin migrated from SalesLogix, way back in the rā prior to Trailhead,
and Marketing Cloud (formally Eloqua)
Moved home to NZ in 2019
Been with Waikato-Tainui now for 19 Months
Most of my experience is in Sales Cloud, with a touch of Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and
Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formally Pardot)

6. Add the {!NewUserWelcomeEmailLink} merge field to the template, you’ll find it in the Organization Fields
Personalise your welcome email for internal users
LOVE that this is another place I can add some Te Reo into our org

7. Add the {!NewUserWelcomeEmailLink} merge field to the template
Personalise your welcome email for internal users
Added links for the authenticator app, and invite to our internal Teams Channel

8. No need to activate, it’s enabled by default in Identity Verification
24 hour password safety reset
Once clicked, reset links stay valid for 24 hours, cutting down on urgent emails,
keeping users and admins happy!

9. Redirect to a newly created record from a custom toast
message
Who knew . . . I thought toast was something we had for breakfast!
When you create a new record by using a quick action, you can now quickly redirect to the newly created record by clicking default or custom toast messages. Previously, on desktop, you
could only click the default toast message to be redirected to the newly created record.

10. Sorting is user specific and cannot be set as default
Sort list views and related list views by multiple
columns
Sort by up to 5 columns at once

11. Available for all standard and custom objects that support field permission
Grant users access to all fields on an object
Users will get access to all fields, including all new fields going forward!
Huge time saver for admins frequently adding new
fields, it eliminates the need for admins to manually
update field level security when new fields are
added, reducing admin overhead.
Does not give data access!
However, it's important to balance this with data
security considerations, ensuring only appropriate
users receive this level of access.
Essential for integration and backup users!
“View All” renamed to “View all Records”
“Modify All” renamed to “Modify All Records”

12. View flow versions within the flow
No longer have to go back to the flow setup screen

13. Ben Stokes
Merkle

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Ben Stokes - Senior Consultant at Merkle
- Involved with Salesforce since 2015
- Moved to Wellington in 2020, moments before covid stopped everything
- My Salesforce journey has been a bit of everything: accidental admin, CPQ
consultant, solo admin at a SaaS startup, and now back as a Senior
Consultant.
- I've been with Merkle as a Senior Functional Consultant for almost a year
now.
- My experience mostly on Sales Cloud and revenue generation, with a sprinkle
of CPQ for large enterprise financial institutions in the UK
- I've gained substantial experience in both enterprise architecture and
solution architecture from my time at OW
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcstokes/

15. Ben’s release shortlist
Spring 25 updates but not in the actual release
Agent for Setup - Agentforce for admins.
- Troubleshoot User Access: Quickly determine why a user can’t
access certain records or objects.
- Create Report Types: Leverage the AI to assist in setting up the correct
report types based on your needs.
- Salesforce Documentation Lookup: Instantly pull up relevant Help
articles or official docs for step-by-step guidance.
- Release notes page
- Documentation page
Coordinate Your Sales Team’s Activities with More Transparency
- Release notes page
- Documentation page
- SalesforceBen page
Discover Untapped Selling Opportunities
- Release notes page

16. Ben’s release shortlist
One of my personal favourites - Delivered Idea: Do More with Custom Report Types

17. Ben’s release shortlist
So many flow updates!
- Create Responsive Screens with Automatically Triggered Screen Actions (Beta)
- no longer requires a button!
- Documentation page
- Reactive screen components
- Built-in Progress Indicators
- Documentation page
- View Immediate Feedback from Screen Components with Invalid Values
- Documentation page
- Keyboard shortcuts in Flow
- Undo: Ctrl/Cmd + Z
- Redo: Ctrl/Cmd + Y
- Save As: Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + S
- Flow Get Records limit
- limit the number of records returned in a Get element
- Flow Transform element
- Join 2 collections
- Flow Send withs with Attachments in core action
- Nested Search in Resource Picker
- Documentation page

18. Flow Demos

19. Links and Resources
- Abridged Release Notes
- Discord community https://sfxd.github.io
- created by Windyo, with help from the SFXD community
- Shared on r/salesforce on Reddit
- https://www.reddit.com/r/salesforce/comments/1igm9dj/spring_25_release_notes_abridged_edition_by_sfxd/
- SFDC Penguin
- https://www.reddit.com/r/salesforce/comments/1hzlti7/spring_25_release_summary/
- Automation Champion
- https://automationchampion.com/2024/12/31/salesforce-spring25-release-quick-summary-2/
- Jen Lee’s Salesforce Release blog
- https://admin.salesforce.com/blog/2025/jens-top-spring-25-release-features-be-release-ready
- Agentforce updates
- https://mirketa.com/agentforce-2-0-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-update/
- For the developers!
- Kier Bowden’s talk from the London Dev Group
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajvhnV8weuk
- SalesforceBen
- https://www.salesforceben.com/salesforce-spring-25-release-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare/

20. Release Notes via
Agentforce
Huh?

21. Release Notes - Agentforce style
- Nim has built an agent to interrogate the release notes
- Loads a little slowly, but find the Chat icon bottom left
https://orgfarm-3fdfdd9ac7-dev-ed.develop.my.site.com/coralcloud/

22. Release Notes - Agentforce style

23. Release Notes - Agentforce style

24. Agentforce Sales and Service Consumption - Ben

25. Community Updates
What’s happening?

26. Hot off the Press….

27. Community Dates to Note
- Sydney World Tour / Agentforce - Wed 26 Feb. Features Fisher & Paykel
*also online: Salesforce+ (live & on demand) plus LinkedIn Live (keynote).
- Sydney Commons Community Sprint - Thurs 27 Feb
- TDX Agentforce Hackathon San Francisco 3-4 March
- TDX San Francisco - 5-6 March
- Soon after TDX (we hope!) - Spring 25 RRL videos released
- SFWelly next meeting (in person) - Wed 19 March
(we’ll announce & present the winners from Xmas photo comp)
- SFWelly April meeting - Data Cloud with Xero
- Lots of other user group events planned through the year
- Dreamforce 14-16 October

28. Any Questions?