Lightning Web Components

The What, Why, and Hows of Lightning Web Components. What are Lightning Web Components? Salesforce introduced Lightning Web Components (LWC) in it’s latest Spring 19 release.  Lightning web components are custom HTML elements built using HTML and modern JavaScript.  It is based on Web Standard. It leverages custom elements, templates, shadow DOM, decorators, modules, and …

Spring 18 Release – All Highlights [PPT]

  I have gone through the huge release notes, providing you the highlights of the release categorizing them into Lightning Experience features, Report Builder and Dashboard Enhancements. Read Spring 18 - Lightning Experience Enhancements Read Spring 18 - Report Builder Enhancements  Read Spring 18 - Dashboard Enhancements Here's the PPT version  

A Tip A Day #31 – Lightning Data Service

This post is a part of the daily blog series  A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #31 - Lightning Data Service If you are looking for SalesforceDX and Migration to SalesforceDX, it is here Read all other tips of the blog series here - A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning!

Dreamforce 2017 Highlights

For the last 4 years at Dreamforce, Salesforce has announced at least 1 brand new product - Chatter, Salesforce1, Lightning, Einstein! But this year, I'm sure you haven't heard a "new product name" so far.  Yes, no new "product name" but Salesforce did announce a slew of new awesome products - all focused on Personalization …

Lightning App Builder Enhancements – Released in Winter’18

Check out the the other "Lightning Experience features" released in Winter'18. Check out the "Reports & Dashboards" Features of Winter'18 This post specifically highlights the features of Lightning App Builder released in Winter'18! Make Your Lightning Pages Dynamic Now you can control when a component appears on a record page by adding filter conditions and logic to …

Reports and Dashboards Enhancements – Released in Winter’18

Check out the the other "Lightning Experience features" released in Winter'18. Check out new "Lightning App Builder" features This post specifically highlights the features of Lightning Report Builder released in Winter'18! Introducing Lightning Report Builder Lightning Report Builder : Differences Between the Lightning and Classic Report Builders Feature Difference Report Formats In the Salesforce Classic report builder, you …

Sales Cloud Lightning Experience features released in Winter’18

Check out Lightning Report Builder & latest enhancements to "Reports & Dashboards" in Lightning Experience. Check out new "Lightning App Builder" features 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 …

Event: Building Salesforce with ⚡ Lightning Components ⚡

Webinar: Hot Tips to Get You Building Salesforce with ⚡ Lightning Components ⚡ The first in our APAC online workshop series kicks off this August with a super charged session about Lightening Components... Join Master Instructor Rahul Shah to learn more about:  What are Lightning Components? Difference between Visualforce and Lightning Components What should I …

Decoding Trailhead Admin-Beginner Modules

Where to get started in Salesforce? I'm new to this ecosystem, how to learn Salesforce? What is the best way to switch to Salesforce from other technologies? People quite frequently post these kind of questions in Salesforce forums and the most common response to all these questions is an incomplete, one-line answer "Check Trailhead"! Though the answer is right, …

Spring 17 Reports & Dashboards Updates in Lightning Experience

In this post, I'm highlighting all the new features introduced into Reports & Dashboards specially for Lightning Experience with Spring 17 release. There are quite a few updates to Lightning though few are old and existing in Classic Salesforce. To set up Einstein & its Features, learn here (screenshots added). Read the highlights from All of the Spring 17 updates …

Spring 17 Release – Lightning App Builder Updates

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 In this post, I will highlight all the new features introduced into Lightning App Builder with Spring 17 release. To set up Einstein & its Features, learn here (screenshots added). Read the highlights from All of the Spring 17 updates here. What's new in Reports & Dashboards in Lightning Experience this Spring 17, …

Salesforce Einstein – Coming This Dreamforce’16

Dreamforce 2016, the Salesforce's Largest Annual Conference to be held in October, will unveil a product called Salesforce Einstein!  Benioff announces a big product or two every year at Dreamforce, but Einstein is something different. “If this is not the next big thing, I don’t know what is,” says Marc Benioff, the CEO of the world’s …

Lightning Navigation Menu – Change is Coming

If you are using Lightning Experience in your Salesforce instances, then by now you must be familiar with this view, the navigation menu on your left side.  The menu that holds all your tabs and helps in navigating you to different objects.  Now that is changing! Yes, the vertical navigation menu is changing.  It will no …

Dreamforce Wrap Up 2015!

Attended Dreamforce this year, my first time in forever and its been an awesome experience with great learning.  Travelled all the way from Singapore to San Francisco and Dreamforce didn't disappoint a bit.  This time Dreamforce is bigger than before with whopping 1,70,000 user registrations and 1600+ sessions and some rock entertainment in the Dreamfest (the Dreamforce …

New UI for Salesforce

Salesforce.com has a completely redesigned version of its core CRM product.  The new version has been designed with a cleaner, more modern looking interface. Here's the previous UI, now being referred to as Classic Salesforce UI And here's the switch to Lightning Experience The new version uses a navigation bar approach, abandoning the tabbed interface of …

Meet the “New Salesforce”

Big announcement coming from Salesforce just before Dreamforce this year (2015). Salesforce says it will be a whole "New Salesforce"! We're excited to share with you that our upcoming release will be our biggest, best, most game changing ever. And you are invited to an exclusive, early preview. Be the first in the world to get …