Slide presentation from my talk in Bilbao Spain. This was an overview of Salesforce major release Spring 16. Primary areas of focus were Lightning in Visualforce and the new Durable Generic Streaming API.

1. Salesforce Dev Group Bilbao Spain
Spring ’16 Release Overview
19 February, 2016

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3. Speakers
Peter Chittum
Senior Developer Evangelist
@pchittum

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5. ▪ www.salesforce.com/newfeatures
▪ Release Readiness Community
▪ trust.Salesforce.com
▪ Trailhead Release Prep Trails
Stay up-to-date with Release Information

6. Spring ’16 Is
Here

7. Lightning

8. • Lightning UI Updates
• Lightning Experience Navigation Menus
• Visualforce for Lightning Experience
• Design Tokens for Unified Look and Feel
• Lightning for Visualforce
• Lightning Out
• Lightning Components Inspector
Lightning Feature Highlights

9. • Campaigns
• Person Accounts
• Opportunity Teams
• List Views
• Inline editing
• Global Actions
• S1 Enhanced dashboards
Lightning UI Updates

10. • Assigned by Profile
• Respect Tab Perms
• Possible Content Includes:
- Custom Objects or Apps
- Standard Objects
- Visualforce or LCF Tabs
- Canvas App Tabs
- Web Tabs
Custom Navigation Menus

11. New places to add VF
- Add VF pages to the LEX Navigation Menu
- Detect where a user is viewing the page from (S1, Classic, LEX) with the
UITheme context variable
Not so new…Just FYI
- Run VF from the App Launcher
- Display VF page embedded in standard Page Layout
- Create VF component for App Builder
- VF custom actions, buttons, and links
Visualforce for Lightning Experience (Beta)
Visualforce is GA, VF pages with LEX enabled is beta

12. • Header and sidebar are always suppressed and page title can’t be set
• Don’t set window.location, use sforce.one utility object
• Static URLs might break in some contexts
-in VF markup use: {!URLFOR($Action.Conact.Edit, recordId)}
-in Javascript use: navigateToSObject(recordId)
• Detect user context to potentially adjust style to the app environment
• Some VF override actions are not available in LEX
• Some related lists are currently blacklisted in LEX
• <apex:iFrame> is deprecated in LEX
Visualforce for Lightning Experience (Beta)
Extra considerations you need to know

13. Other Lightning Features
• Capture design variables with Lightning Components tokens (developer preview)
<aura:tokens>
<aura:token name=“myBodyTextFontFace" value="Arial"/>
<aura:token name="myBodyTextFontWeight" value=“normal"/>
</aura:tokens>
.THIS p {
font-family: token(myBodyTextFontFace);
font-weight: token(myBodyTextFontWeight);
}
• Improved performance with secure client-side caching

14. Lightning Out facilitates using Lightning Components in
Visualforce Pages
• Use components directly in Visualforce
• Integrate on the client via JavaScript and Lightning Events
• Build “hybrid” pages that leverage the best of Lightning
Components and Visualforce
• Use Lightning Components in both Classic and LEX
Lightning Out (beta)
Lightning Components for Visualforce (GA)

15. • Chrome Plug-in
• Understand internal state of
Lightning Components
lifecycle
Lightning Inspector

16. Demo
Lightning

17. Apex

18. • Testing Enhancements
• Flex Queue Position
Apex

19. • Create test suites of commonly used Apex Classes
• Stop a test run that’s failing miserably
• Bug fixes:
- currency to decimal comparisons
- some MIXED_DML_OPERATION errors
- resetting limits for test.startTest()
Apex Testing Enhancements

20. Locate Jobs in the Apex Flex Queue
Query the FlexQueueItem object to find:
- position of an asynch Apex job in the Flex Queue
- fields from the AsynchApexJob object with the AsynchApexJobId
SELECT JobPosition, AsyncApexJob.ApexClass.Name FROM FlexQueueItem WHERE
JobType = 'BatchApex' AND AsyncApexJobId = '707xx000000DABC'
(find the position)
SELECT JobType, AsyncApexJob.CreatedDate FROM FlexQueueItem WHERE
JobType='BatchApex' AND AsyncApexJob.ApexClass.Name LIKE '%'BatchAJob'%'
ORDER BY JobPosition DESC
(find all batch jobs)

21. API

22. • Durable Streaming API (replay messages)
• SOQL Enhancements
• JSON support for Bulk API
• REST API - Friendly URLs
- Make REST requests with fewer API calls
- Access records by traversing object relationships to retrieve,
update, or delete the record
• Wave REST API has gone GA
API Enhancements

23. • Query records saved in all users’ private folders with the
allPrivate query scope
• DISTANCE() supported with location-based SOQL queries
SELECT Id, Name, Location, DISTANCE(Location,
GEOLOCATION(latitude, longitude), ‘mi’) FROM
Contact
• Formatting for number, date,time, and currency fields in
SELECT clauses
API Enhancements - SOQL

24. • Replay Generic Streaming Events (GA)
- Salesforce stores for 24hrs
- Subscribers choose events to retrieve with replay options
API Enhancements - Streaming API

25. • Replay PushTopic Streaming Events (Beta)
- identical to generic streaming with replay for 24hrs
- subscription channel should include PushTopic
“channel”:“/topic/MyTopicName”
Contact Salesforce to enable this
API Enhancements - Streaming API

26. API Demo

27. Spring ’16
for Point and Clic

28. • Lightning & Classic
• Immediate analysis
• Actionable links
• Password Policies
• Session Settings
• Network Access Config
Security Health Check

29. • Reuse a single list of values
• Manage a recurring picklist in
one place
• 40,000+ Idea Exchange points
• Keep picklist data clean
• Restrict ability to create values
Global (Pilot) & Restricted (Beta) Picklists

31. Trailhead and Release Readiness
bit.ly/sf-release-trail

32. Join the Conversation!post to: bit.ly/ReleaseReadinessSalesforce with #askforce

33. Q&A

34. Thank you!