Toronto Developer Group - Winter 24' Release Highlights.pptx
- 1. Winter ‘24 Release Developer Highlights Platform Major Version: 246 API Version: 59.0
- 2. Forward Looking Statements This presentation contains forward-looking statements about, among other things, trend analyses and future events, future financial performance, anticipated growth, industry prospects, environmental, social and governance goals, and the anticipated benefits of acquired companies. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, Salesforce’s results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by these forward- looking statements. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include those factors discussed in Salesforce’s reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to: impact of, and actions we may take in response to, the COVID-19 pandemic, related public health measures and resulting economic downturn and market volatility; our ability to maintain security levels and service performance meeting the expectations of our customers, and the resources and costs required to avoid unanticipated downtime and prevent, detect and remediate performance degradation and security breaches; the expenses associated with our data centers and third-party infrastructure providers; our ability to secure additional data center capacity; our reliance on third-party hardware, software and platform providers; the effect of evolving domestic and foreign government regulations, including those related to the provision of services on the Internet, those related to accessing the Internet, and those addressing data privacy, cross-border data transfers and import and export controls; current and potential litigation involving us or our industry, including litigation involving acquired entities such as Tableau Software, Inc. and Slack Technologies, Inc., and the resolution or settlement thereof; regulatory developments and regulatory investigations involving us or affecting our industry; our ability to successfully introduce new services and product features, including any efforts to expand our services; the success of our strategy of acquiring or making investments in complementary businesses, joint ventures, services, technologies and intellectual property rights; our ability to complete, on a timely basis or at all, announced transactions; our ability to realize the benefits from acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures and investments, including our July 2021 acquisition of Slack Technologies, Inc., and successfully integrate acquired businesses and technologies; our ability to compete in the markets in which we participate; the success of our business strategy and our plan to build our business, including our strategy to be a leading provider of enterprise cloud computing applications and platforms; our ability to execute our business plans; our ability to continue to grow unearned revenue and remaining performance obligation; the pace of change and innovation in enterprise cloud computing services; the seasonal nature of our sales cycles; our ability to limit customer attrition and costs related to those efforts; the success of our international expansion strategy; the demands on our personnel and infrastructure resulting from significant growth in our customer base and operations, including as a result of acquisitions; our ability to preserve our workplace culture, including as a result of our decisions regarding our current and future office environments or work-from-home policies; our dependency on the development and maintenance of the infrastructure of the Internet; our real estate and office facilities strategy and related costs and uncertainties; fluctuations in, and our ability to predict, our operating results and cash flows; the variability in our results arising from the accounting for term license revenue products; the performance and fair value of our investments in complementary businesses through our strategic investment portfolio; the impact of future gains or losses from our strategic investment portfolio, including gains or losses from overall market conditions that may affect the publicly traded companies within our strategic investment portfolio; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; our ability to develop our brands; the impact of foreign currency exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations on our results; the valuation of our deferred tax assets and the release of related valuation allowances; the potential availability of additional tax assets in the future; the impact of new accounting pronouncements and tax laws; uncertainties affecting our ability to estimate our tax rate; uncertainties regarding our tax obligations in connection with potential jurisdictional transfers of intellectual property, including the tax rate, the timing of the transfer and the value of such transferred intellectual property; uncertainties regarding the effect of general economic and market conditions; the impact of geopolitical events; uncertainties regarding the impact of expensing stock options and other equity awards; the sufficiency of our capital resources; the ability to execute our Share Repurchase Program; our ability to comply with our debt covenants and lease obligations; the impact of climate change, natural disasters and actual or threatened public health emergencies; and our ability to achieve our aspirations, goals and projections related to our environmental, social and governance initiatives. Updated: September 28, 2022
- 3. Organizing Committee Karanraj Sankaranarayanan Toronto Developer Group Leader Krithika Dharmarajan Salesforce MVP and Toronto Developer Group Leader
- 4. Call for Speakers We need your help to keep the engagement going, please get in touch with the organizing committee to propose a session. We would love to hear from you about what you are working on, a unique solution you have implemented for a client or a new product that you are intrigued by.
- 5. Today’s Presenters Shreyas Dhond Senior Technical Architect, Salesforce - 9 years in Salesforce ecosystem as a developer and architect - Industry Experience: Telecom, Insurance, Oil & Gas, and Retail - Product Expertise: Sales, Service, Communications, Experience, Data Cloud, Mulesoft and Copado
- 6. Thank you
- 7. Winter 24’ (246) Release ● Review the release notes: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release- notes.salesforce_release_notes.htm&release=246&type=5 ● Winter 24’ Release Developer Blog: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2023/09/winter24- developers ● Release Highlights Trailhead: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/winter-24- release-highlights ● Winter 24’ Release Preview Enabled Org Sign-up: https://www.salesforce.com/form/signup/prerelease-winter24/
- 8. ● GraphQL API ● Dynamically Import and Instantiate Lightning Web Components DEMO Lightning Web Components Agenda ● Einstein for Developers (vscode) ● Use the Comparator Interface and Collator Class for Sorting (Generally Available) DEMO Apex ● Build Screen Flows with Reactive Components (Generally Available) ● Create Custom Error Messages in Record- Triggered Flows ● Send Salesforce Data to an External Server without Code via HTTP Callout (Generally Available) DEMO Flow Builder
- 10. GraphQL API ● New API with a paradigm shift in sending and receiving data with a single endpoint for all data needed in a single request and response. ● GraphQL APIs are often more performant than those that use traditional REST APIs. ● Resources ○ Developer Guide ○ API Reference ○ GraphQL Wire Adapter for LWC Highlights: ● Optimize Apps by querying multiple objects related or unrelated in single requests. ● Single endpoint with data aggregation across multiple objects. ● Paginate your results with each with cursor based pagination.
- 11. Dynamic Component Instantiation in LWC ● Allows component initialization based on run-time conditions. ● To dynamically import and instantiate Lightning web components, you must enable Lightning Web Security. ● Resources ○ Developer Guide ○ Salesforce Developers' Blog: Dynamic Components for Lightning Web Components Is Now GA Highlights: ● Build customizable LWC components. ● Keep LWC markup simple and add conditional logic in javascript. ● NOTE: Introduces a run-time overhead, so not always a recommended solution.
- 12. Apex Highlights
- 13. Einstein for Developers ● Generative AI Code for Apex. ● Supplements static and dynamic Apex Analysis with Scale Center. ● Uses customized LLM that is based on Salesforces open-source CodeGen CodeGen2.5 model ● Resources ○ Developer Guide ○ Developers’ Blog: Einstein for Salesforce Developers Highlights: ● Get code templates fast based on prompt. ● Code completion using in apex editor using prompts.
- 14. Use the Comparator Interface and Collator Class for Sorting (Generally Available) ● New sort method with comparator parameter on List class. ● User locale based sorting using Collator parameter in list sorting. ● Resources ○ Developer Guide ○ IdeaExchange: Support Apex List Sorting Using a Comparator Highlights: ● Allows custom logic when performing sorts instead of relying on default logic. ● User locale based sorting by default using collator.
- 15. Flow Highlights
- 16. Build Screen Flows with Reactive Components (Generally Available) ● Allows flow screen components and formulas to react to changes on screen in real-time. ● Supported in API version 59.0 or later. ● Resources ○ Developer Guide ○ Reactive Screen Components (Beta) | Learn MOAR Summer ’23 Highlights: ● Consolidate flows to fewer screens. ● Build flows that feel like single page.
- 17. Create Custom Error Messages in Record-Triggered Flows (Idea Exchange) ● New Custom Error Message element to specify targeted error messages for flow element faults. ● Error messages can be shown on page or on inline fields and can be triggered for before and after save flows. ● Resources ○ Developer Guide Highlights: ● Specific targeted messages instead of generic flow fault messages. ● Inline field errors through flows allows extending flow functionality.
- 18. Send Salesforce Data to an External Server without Code via HTTP Callout (Generally Available) ● Allows HTTP Callout through FLOWs without the creation of Named CreExternal Services. ● In the backend external service is created based on configuration created with new HTTP Callout action. ● Resources ○ Developer Guide: HTTP Callout Action Highlights: ● Specific targeted messages instead of generic flow fault messages. ● Inline field errors through flows allows extending flow functionality.
Editor's Notes
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