Top 10 Cool Things I like in Salesforce Summer 18





I like Summer updates as Salesforce always sets the ground up for next Dreamforce. 

In this article I will not be summarizing the summer 18 for you, I will only be talking about the things I like as a developer/ architect and end user, it could be as little as a datetime method 😉 . Mostly I will be covering lightning experience, Sales, Service, Platform, Communities and Einstein.



10. URL Change:
(Straight out from the release notes)
The new URL format is more readable, addressing the issue of being directed to an unexpected location when accessing Lightning Experience URLs before authenticating.
Here are some examples of the new format.
  • Object Home page
    • Previous format: https://<lightning.domain.com>/one/one.app/#/sObject/Account/home
    • New format: https://<lightning.domain.com>/lightning/o/Account/home
  • Record page
    • Previous format: https://<lightning.domain.com>/one/one.app#/sObject/006R000000245p1IAA/view
    • New format: https://<lightning.domain.com>/lightning/r/Opportunity/006R000000245p1IAA/view
Note
Visualforce page URLs with /apex/pageName in the file path aren’t translated into the new URL format. When executed, those URLs still use the /one/one.app URL format.
9)  Refined Search:
This image speaks for itself
Opportunity search results filtered by Opportunity Name
8) Hover Text on Articles in Lightning Knowledge Search Results:
seacrh result hover text

7) Debug Your Flows in Cloud Flow Designer:
It reminds of Siebel workflows simulate, ah good ol' days :D:


6) Finally Report Builder is GA:
Make sure to practice on this UI before promising anything :)













That can be as effective as this:
Building a Report in Lightning Experience 
Not just that, you can export them with the format you created...


It would be even cooler if it can keep the chart too... ;) vote for this idea: https://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=087300000006n4zAAA
5) One click to Dashboard view:
Dont we like the Notification messages from Einstein dashboards, Now we can go to that dashboard and reports from there with just one click. I like it.
You can also share it from Annotation:Dashboard set up with filters and annotation panel open, as it would appear after clicking an annotation link
4) Component Library with Examples:
We can not check the components how they look and work with a live example. No more copy pasting the code from document and trying out how it would look. 
We can also check the custom components that we created with the properties etc...

3) Broken Components No Longer Break Lightning Pages:
It might be simple thing for them, it saves a lot of time for us. We were usingjavascript exception handling and isValid statements alot to avoid failing. But now, finally. Thank you for this.
I wonder what massage shows up in console though!

2)  Apply Lightning Experience Stylesheets to Visualforce Pages: 
Add the attribute lightningStylesheets="true" to main page tag

1) switch statement in APEX:
Apex now provides a switch statement that tests whether an expression matches one of several values and branches accordingly.
Misc:

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