Summer 13

Chennai Salesforce Platform Developer User Group Summer 13 Release

By - Jitendra Zaa

New User Interface and Login

First thing we noticed after Summer 13.Login Page Changed.Setup link appears separate now (Not if you have Community)Admin setup has Administer option first.To enable new Improved Setup User Interface, Navigate to User Interface Setting and check Enable Improved Setup User Interface.Demo

Domain Management

Not able to open more than one Developer org/Production Org in one browser ?Needed to create multiple Google chrome profile ?Here is answerAssign Unique domain to your Salesforce instance.If your domain name is shivasoft, it will take form like :https://shivasoft.my.salesforce.com

Chatter Updates

Now Supporting Hash tag with three words.Supports Topics.In Chat Window, Now you can chat with users even if user is not following them.

Global Action

Fed up with Chatter Task ? Showing task info in Chatter is good, but too much is not good.Replicate same behaviour with Global Action.Create records right from Chatter.Demo

Communities

New replacement for Portals.New Organizations cannot use Partner and Customer Portal, they will use Community.Existing organization needs to convert there Partner and Customer Portal to Community.Partner / Customer and Community cannot be enabled at same time.You need extra licenses for Community, its not free.Demo

OWD / Sharing rule for Users

You dont want external Users to see Internal Users ?You need OWD / Sharing rule even for Users ?-Now its possible in Summer 13 only if Community is Enabled. User Sharing for others are also available by Pilot Program.Demo

Report Folder Sharing

Three Types of Sharing Now :Viewer : Can see report but cannot modifyEditor : Can make changes and move Report/Dashboard to other folderManager : Can control visibility / access to other users for that folder.

Formula Enhancements

Now you can access Owners detail. Previously only ID was available.In Formula type of field, we now have checkbox data type. Which will return either true or false.

Opportunity split

Implemented from Idea.Many Sales People involved in winning opportunity. Credit should be shared amongst them.Two types of Split :Revenue : Addition must be 100%Overlay : It may go more than 100%.Not supported in Forecast and territory.Owner is automatically added as one of member in Opportunity Split.

What CSRF is doing on my Visualforce Page Set up ?

DemoStands for Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF).New Level of Security for your Visualforce.

When checked, it protects against CSRF attacks by modifying the page to require a CSRF confirmation token, a random string of characters in the URL parameters. With every GET request, Visualforce checks the validity of this string of characters and doesnt load the page unless the value found matches the value expected.

It works only for VF pages if they override standard delete link. No need to check for other VF pages.

Note : Post request already has this feature by default.

Developer Console

Salesforce is trying as much it can make developers life easy with help of Developer Console.New Enhanced Look and FeelAutocomplete for Apex press Ctrl+Space barDemo

Visualforce Updates

Control html and body tag generationTwo new attribute in Markup - applyHtmlTag and applyBodyTag.

Visualforce Updates

Introduction of new Component : You can change photo of Chatter Profile using this.Demo

Visualforce

HTML 5Option to render VF Component as HTML5. Great if you are thinking to develop HTML 5 based app in VF.You must update your page to API version 28.0 or later, and set the docType to html-5.0 to enable the new behaviour.

Canvas

Now GACreate application in your favourite languageRun inside Salesforce with Canvas set of tools and Javascript APIExample of PHP + Canvas SDK

Javascript Remoting

Configure timeout nowPreviously it was by default fixed as 30 sec now you can change it upto 120 sec.

Apex

Test methods can only be written in Test Class now.

Use the @TestVisible annotation to allow test methods to access private or protected members of another class outside the test class.

With this annotation, you dont have to change the access modifiers of your methods and member variables to public if you want to access them in a test method.

Apex New String methods

Hashcode() returns hashcode of String. stripHtmlTags() Converts HTML String to normal text string.Example

Hi becomes Hi.

SOSL

Now SOSL can return 2000 records. Previously it was just 200.

SOQL New Clause

FOR VIEWUpdate objects with information about when they were last viewed

FOR REFERENCEUpdate objects with information about when they were last referenced

Also SOQL now supports other comparison operators for ID field like < , >

Sandbox Enhancements

Sandbox Template Now you can control what should be copied to your new Sandbox.Only for full Sandbox.

Custom Settings Now data of Custom Setting also gets copied in Sandbox.Initially it was only in Full Sandbox.

Deployment / Change set Enhancements

Approval Process Supported now.Auto Response Rule, Assignment Rule and Escalation rules are available now.

More Time to give back to Salesforce

Participate in board / Stack Exchange discussions.You can also use #askforce for any question.Use Idea if you got some suggestion and if it already exist , Vote it up.

Questions and Answers

Thanks

Cloud Trivia

T/F : Private Groups in Chatter cannot be accessed even by System Admin w/o permission of Group Owner.

False. Any user with Modify All Data permission can access private group in Chatter. We dont have anything like Hidden Group.

If you need Hidden Group in Chatter, Vote up Idea in IdeaExchange.

What are three New permission level in Report and Dashboard folders

Viewer Editor Manager

Which VF tag can be used to update Chatter Profile picture?

How many words supported in Hashtag/topic in Chatter ?

3

T/F : We need to raise Support ticket to Salesforce to enable Canvas.

False. Canvas is GA after Summer 13.

What is one condition which needs to be enabled to define OWD and Sharing rule for Users by default ?

Community should be enabledPilot program is also available if communities are not available.

What are two new attribute added in apex:page mark-up to control generation of html and body ?

applyHtmlTag and applyBodyTag

What are two clause added in SOQL ?

For ViewFor Reference

If String has HTML mark-up, which method you will use to get Simple text without HTML ?

stripHtmlTags() Converts HTML String to normal text string.Example

Hi becomes Hi.

How many records SOSL can return?

2000 previously it was only 200