What is carving up an Org near you, well it looks a lot like Astro is hitting the pre-release slops on his board unless you’ve banished him!
Each release seems to come around quicker and quicker these days, here the UK is still officially on its Summer holidays, but I could not resist the temptation to download and have a read.
And in the words of our fellow Blogger – Chris
“So go here (or here if you absolutely hate trees …or just love PDFs) and dive in to see what you can find.”
Chris unboxed possibly the most impactful of changes coming with Winter 19, you would have to be pretty dense to miss it!
If you did, you get comfy and refresh yourself here
This time it’s completely acceptable to say more is more, could this finally shift the productivity stakes in the lightning favour? It’s one less reason not to be happy that’s for sure!
Okay, that’s enough, so what else is in store this Winter?
I found out the hard way that changing owner was a singleton affair when I tried to change the owner for 10 records at a time.
Of course, there are custom solutions which plug the gap but nothing is better than an out of the box feature! I’m glad I was only working with a simple custom object and not cases as I can hear the screams from here! Screams of joy now!
Next feature is a bit of killer I reckon, the ABCDEF… Search filters felt more dated than Salesforce Classic; what could be handier than a nifty filter right inline in the list view which filters the results as you type!
Next up we have something which nearly made it into our Bright Idea post, thankfully Salesforce beat us to it! Yes, I’m talking List View sharing, we can only wonder why it wasn’t here until now, say no more!
Can I get a productivity?
PRODUCTIVITY
Yes, it’s cheesy!
This release is looking like a stonker full of many awesome features, let’s continue…
It’s time to forgive Salesforce for Slacking off in the Chatter department, now your chitty chat gets saved as a draft – #nice
Customisation improvements see some real gems.
Custom permissions; if you’ve experimented with this feature you will know these add granular control over many aspects of your org like logic within validation rules as one example. Custom permissions can now be used to dynamically control this displaying of lightning page components – now it’s easier to add custom permissions to profiles and perm sets rather than creating a bunch of fields on the user object to handle page components
Next things just got a whole lot less annoying especially if your like me and tend to over click – Lightning Components no longer get auto-added to pages! No more I didn’t want that there! Can you relate?
Let’s jump to Lightning flow, these days I am finding myself slipping back into love and this is not due to the intermittent new flow designer appearing on the horizon. More the way they have opened up the ability to blend lightning components with flow screens –
Salesforce is championing the no-code / low-code approach hard these days! Similar to what we have seen in the past with Apex limits being increased over time, now the Process limits are being lifted up to allow more automation to be created using the declarative tools:
| Per-Org Limit | Summer ’18 and Earlier | Winter ’19 |
|---|---|---|
| Total processes and flows | 1,000 | 4,000 |
| Active processes and flows | 500 | 2,000 |
| Groups of scheduled actions or flow interviews that are waiting to be processed | 30,000 | 50,000 |
Before I jump into the juice UX bits with Flow, something which has been the bane of my life but softened somewhat by the wonderful folks at Gearset who allow for flows to be deployed and activated, a given for anyone trying to operate in a CI/CD world.
So there is that, followed by the only slightly more annoying elimination of Flow versions or at least the ability to not have to worry about them.
So this leaves only the really annoying Flash Designer UI and there be nothing else left for me to moan about…
Wanna sneak peek at the new Flow Builder?
It’s been the topic of many discussions and in the works for a long time, we’re glad its finally on it’s way to us… and our orgs.
For more information on when this is arriving, check out this post on admin.salesforce.com
I mentioned I am fan blend Lightning Components with Flow Screens which is a nice low-code way to leverage components, but if your looking for a no code way then Winter 19 brings a whole host of new screen elements which you can take advantage of – here is a quick summary
- Display Dependent Picklists
- Capture Names
- Let users opt out with new Toggle
- Let users select a number with new Slider
- Capture and validate email addresses
- Capture phone numbers
- Capture URLs
And there is more on the Flow front…
- Flow now remembers previously entered values
- Track process and Flow Test coverage
- Test Scheduled Actions and Waiting Flows
There is more, but I am going to have to stop and say this – Salesforce is doubling and tripling down on Flow as you can tell now as we push into the new low-code era love it or hate it!
And on that note, let’s jump into Professional Developer territory to round this post out…
Lightning performance is improving all the time but still needs work. Salesforce know this and have gifted us these two new features to help with this”
Akamai is the leaders in the web optimisation space and with Lightning, you now have the option to have static content served up from their CDN network. Remember it’s not for developing with but something which you would want to enable in production when you push your finished components live! Don’t forget!
A little more on the cacheable front, there is a new annotation parameter called cacheable
@AuraEnabled(cacheable=true) public static Account getAccount(Id accountId) { // your code here }
Marking your method as cacheable tells Salesforce to take cached data from the client-side storage without waiting for the server trip. Previously you had to remember to add code to every JavaScript action that was calling a method – less code wins here
There is so much for developers in this release it probably warrants a post in its own right – so I am going to cherry pick a few more items which I am personally glad are finally coming down the pipeline…
Receive streaming events in your lightning component is going to be very useful – I’m not the only one who thinks that, check our fellow MVP Fabian’s post – Get Live Notifications when the record you’re viewing gets modified
Nice segue into this Change Data Capture Developer preview, this is going to be awesome and extremely useful – my current project I am working on compliance based architectures and filling data lakes, hope the path to GA is quick for this.
Here we’re finally the last developer feature – whilst this was a developer preview item, one item which is going GA in Winter 19 is unlocked packages
Here are the all the details you need – Unlocked Packages Generally Available
I have to say Winter 19 for me is shaping up to be one of the best releases of the last few years and with still plenty more for you to discover!
And that’s all folks!
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