Lightning Experience Enhancements
Lightning Experience Gets a New Look and Feel
- More information density and less white space
- Improved legibility (using font size and color)
- Added color and a background image. (Setup –> Themes and Branding)
- Open Favorites in a New Browser Tab
Search: Adjustable Search Results Columns and Smarter Instant Results
- Resize Columns, Wrap Text, and Easily Sort on the Search Results Page
- Get to the Right Record Faster with Enhanced Instant Results
- Find Things in Setup Faster with Enhanced Quick Find
Integrate Outlook and Gmail with Salesforce – Learn on Trailhead
Lead Conversion Flexibility – New screen. Applies to Lightning Experience only.
Lightning Experience Feature Updates
- Set Up Person Accounts with Ease from setup itself. No support case needed.
- Merge Person Accounts in Lightning Experience
- Configure and Manage Sales Territories in Lightning Experience
- Prompt Users to Add Products to Opportunities
- Run More Workflow Time Triggers Per Hour. Up to 100.
- Salesforce Events Calendar Is Now Called My Events
Add Opportunity Team Members Faster
Expand Your Reps’ Email Reach with List Email
- Reps can send an email to recipients on contact, lead, and person account lists.
- List email sends an individual email to each recipient instead of one email to group.
- Use merge field directly from the Email Send pop-up.
List Views: Customizations, Mass Inline Editing, and Text Wrapping
- List View Column Widths Dynamically Adjust to the Content
- Set Custom Column Widths on More List Views
- Reset Custom List View Column Widths to Their Default
- Wrap Text in List Views
Home: Filter More Options in the Tasks Component
Process Builder Updates
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Start a Process When a Platform Event Occurs
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Quickly Reference Specific Users and Queues – No more Id references!
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Access Encrypted Data in Process Builder (Generally Available)
Turn On Multiple Currencies Without Contacting Support
Translation Workbench Supports Flow
Encrypt More of Your Customers’ Personally Identifying Information (Generally Available) – Leads, Accounts, Contact objects
New Field Type: Track Time with the Time Field Type
- The time field type is a timestamp minus the date
- To support using time in formulas, this beta release introduces the TIMEVALUE and TIMENOW functions as well as HOUR, SECOND, SECOND, MILLISECOND
- Use this custom field type to track time that is not specific to a single date, such as preferred contact hours
Share Business Contacts Manually in Orgs That Use Person Accounts
Block Execution of JavaScript in the HYPERLINK Function To Be Enforced
- You can’t add or execute JavaScript in the URL of a HYPERLINK function.
- You can edit the function to remove the JavaScript from the URL and substitute a URL that doesn’t contain JavaScript
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