Spring '14 Release Developer Preview Webinar

Spring ’14 Release
Developer Preview
January 15, 2014

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Speakers
Dave Carroll

Samantha Ready

Director,

Developer Evangelist
@samantha_ready

Developer Evangelism
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Discussion

Agenda
§  Salesforce1 App Enhancements
§  Visualforce
§  Analytics API
§  Force.com Canvas
§  Other Platform Updates

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Salesforce1 Mobile Development Review
1.  Publisher Actions
• 

Declarative: Create, log-a-call, update actions

• 

Programmatic: Visualforce, Canvas

2.  Mobile Cards
3.  Compact Layouts

3

4.  Mobile Navigation
5.  JS libraries
1

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2

Salesforce1 Mobile Development Enhancements
§  Mobile navigation
•  Communities
•  Canvas Apps

§  Notification enhancements
•  Push notifications: tasks, post to profile, comments on posts
•  In app notifications: item flagged, all community notifications

§  View embedded report charts on record detail pages
§  New skills related list (pilot)

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Visualforce Remote Objects (pilot)
§  JS remoting is a powerful and efficient way to build web/
mobile apps with your Salesforce data
§  Remove some complexity from JS Remoting
•  No need for @RemoteAction in Apex controller

§  Proxy objects that allow basic DML on SObjects directly from
JavaScript

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Visualforce Remote Objects (pilot)
§  Proxy objects that allow basic DML on SObjects directly from
JavaScript
•  Visualforce:
<apex:remoteObjectModel name=“Test__c” jsShorthand=“myTest”
fields=“Name, Id” >
<apex:remoteObjectField name=“Email__c” jsShorthand=“e”>
</apex:remoteObjectModel>

•  JavaScript:
// Create a new Remote Object
var te = new SObjectModel.myTest();
// Use the Remote Object to query for 10 test records
te.retrieve({ limit: 10 }, function(err, records) {
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Other Visualforce Enhancements
§  PageReference URIs support anchors
•  Ex. PageReference p = new PageReference(‘/home/home.jsp#logTicket’);

§  <liveAgent:clientChatFileTransfer> component
(pilot)
§  <analytics:reportChart> component (generally
available)
•  More granular control than embedded charts
•  Custom filter functionality for charts from reports

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Historical Trending (generally available)
§  Compare current data against previous data values
•  Enable for opportunities, cases, and up to 3 custom objects

§  Compare up to 5 different dates (including current date)
§  View historical data up to 3 months prior
•  Opportunities shows trending data immediately
•  Cases/custom objects start collecting data once enabled

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Analytics API Available in Apex
§  Access the Analytics API via Apex
§  Grab report data with the report Id
•  ex. Reports.ReportResults res = Reports.ReportManager.runReport(reportId);

§  Parse through groupings to grab report data/metadata
§  Pair with Apex for ease of functionality like:
•  Post report data to chatter
•  Create snapshots and add as attachments
•  Trigger specific workflows
•  Etc…

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Additional Apex Updates
§  Increased query timeout in batch start method
•  Was 3 minutes
•  Now 10 minutes

§  Independent auto-number sequence test option
•  Test records aren’t committed, DB is rolled back
•  Enable this option before running an Apex class that creates data

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Canvas Apps in the Publisher and Feed (generally available)
§  Publisher: Expose your canvas apps as global Publisher Actions
•  As a publisher action, a user can create a feed item of type text, link, or canvas
•  Works in the Aloha app or Salesforce1
•  You can now remove the publisher header and share button from Connected App

§  Feed: Expose your canvas apps as feed items
•  Feed item can display actions based off of current user
•  Content is served from the canvas app i.e. developer has full control over behavior
•  Example: Employee time sheet
•  Hours worked metric data is sent to a manager for approval
•  Hours worked metric data is sent to employee for viewing & notes

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Events between a Canvas App and Visualforce Page
§  Publish and subscribe to events between your Canvas App and
your Visualforce page
•  publish – Publishes an event that the canvas app subscribes to
•  resize – used by a VF page to resize the canvas app iFrame
•  subscribe – used by a VF page to subscribe to events that the canvas app
might publish
•  unsubscribe – used by a VF page to unsubscribe to parent events that the
canvas app might publish

§  Enable debug mode when using the Canvas SDK for
troubleshooting
•  Sfdc.canvas.console.enable();
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Other Salesforce1
Platform Updates

SOQL / SOSL Updates
SOQL
§  SELECT Support for compound standard address and geolocation
fields
•  SELECT Location__c, BillingAddress FROM Account

§  WHERE DISTANCE()and ORDER BY DISTANCE() support for
compound standard address fields
•  SELECT Id, Name FROM Account
WHERE DISTANCE(BillingAddress, GEOLOCATION(37.775, -122.418), “mi”) < 20
ORDER BY(BillingAddress, GEOLOCATION(37.775, -122.418), “mi”) LIMIT 10

SOSL
§  use OFFSET to specify the starting row offset into the result set
returned by your query
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New Objects
§  LimitAllocationPerApp (pilot) - Allocate quotas for individual Connected
Apps
§  Reserve API capacity for critical apps or set ceilings on non-critical apps
§  Set quotas per 24-hour period for: total API requests, Bulk API batches, Streaming API
events, and generic streaming events

§  OwnedContentDocument
§  Query for files owned by specific users

§  ProfileSkill[x] (10 new ProfileSkill objects)
§  Describes users professional knowledge
§  Users can have skills, endorse skills, and collaborate on skills
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New Place Order REST API
§  REST API lets you integrate Salesforce order data into apps
programmatically
•  Order data is already connected to CRM out of the box: pre-integrated for
accounts, opptys & quotes, products/price books, contracts, service cloud
•  Resources for standard contracts, orders, and order products

§  Simplify the order capture process and streamline integrations
with your back office

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Orders Connects the Clouds
Sales Cloud

Contract
Oppty

Service Cloud

Quote
Order
Order
Product

Service
Entitlement

Case
Asset

Back-End Systems

Order
Fulfillment
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Billing

Financials

New Place Order REST API
{

"order": [
{
JSON
"attributes": {
format
"type": "Order"
},
"EffectiveDate": "2013-01-13",
"Status": "Draft",
"pricebook2Id": "01sx00000001NyX",
"billingCity": "SF",
"accountId": "001x00000036jpf",
"OrderItems": {
"records": [
{
"attributes": {
"type": "OrderItem"
},
"PricebookEntryId": "01ux0000000dhAn",
"quantity": "1",
"UnitPrice": "100"
}
]
}
}
]

}

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Using REST to
create Orders/
Order Items

Recap
§  Salesforce1 Additions
§  Visualforce Enhancements
§  API Updates

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Try it yourself!
§  Salesforce1
–  bit.ly/s1-dev-guide

§  Visualforce
–  bit.ly/knockout-vf-remote

–  bit.ly/canvas-dev-guide
–  github.com/sready/Canvas-VF-Sample
–  bit.ly/s1-dev-guide

–  github.com/sready/Historical-Trending-Analytics-API
–  bit.ly/analytics-dev-guide

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Q&A
Dave Carroll

Samantha Ready

Director,

Developer Evangelist
@samantha_ready

Developer Evangelism
@dcarroll

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