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How to Participate in Force.com Winter '09 Sandbox Preview
Aug 19, 2008The salesforce.com Winter '09 release is quickly approaching and soon you'll be able to take advantage of great new features! In preparation for the release, a Sandbox Upgrade Window is scheduled for 12:01 AM PST September 16th, 2008, through October 11th, 2008. You can continue to use your Sandbox throughout the Sandbox Upgrade Window to test new customizations or features before rolling them out to users.
As a Force.com Sandbox customer, we want to make you aware of the options available to you during this time.To determine whether there is any additional action you need to take to prepare for the Sandbox Upgrade Window please review the choices below and click on the associated link to understand the action you need to take for each:
1. If you would you like to participate in the Winter '09 Preview on your Sandbox instance during the Sandbox Upgrade Window please click here.
2. If you would like your Sandbox instance to retain the existing Summer '08 functionality until October 11th, 2008 please click here.
3. If you have multiple Sandboxes please click here.
4. If you plan to upload and/or install any AppExchange packages to or from your Sandbox instance during the Sandbox Upgrade Window please click here.
5. If you plan to take no action with your Sandbox instance during the upgrade window please click here.
Please click through the links to access the information you need depending on your answers to the above questions. If you have additional questions about your Sandbox options in conjunction with the Winter '09 release, please contact the salesforce.com Customer Support team.
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Summer '08 Feature Showcase: Enhanced Lists
Jun 4, 2008Hello! It's your friendly Salesforce product manager here, with some great news to share about an awesome feature being delivered in the Summer '08 release - Enhanced Lists!
Last year, we gave you inline editing on record detail pages. While I knew it would be a hit (or, at least, I certainly hoped it would be), I also knew that it would only be a matter of time before the requests would start pouring in for inline editing from list views. Sure enough, Tannic didn't waste any time, and 6 days after the Winter '08 release, an idea was logged. :-)I'm happy to announce that the new Enhanced List feature in the Summer '08 release offers you powerful, easy-to-use tools to quickly display, customize (and even edit!) lists of records imperative for your day-to-day work routine.
The sensational new editing capabilities we've included allow you to edit a single record, or multiple - up to 200 - records, directly from a list, never leaving the page. And with a wide range of new navigation options - for example, displaying the record count (up to 2000), specifying number of records displayed per page, jump to a specific page, and first & last page links - you can find the information you’re looking for in no time.
We also included drag-and-drop support for moving columns around, as well as changing a column's width by dragging the right side of the column header.
For those of you who have created custom mass action buttons to act on multiple records in a list view, we also now remember selections across multiple pages. Gone are the days of selecting records on a single page, then clicking the action button, then going to the next page, selecting more records, etc.
In order to realize the full benefit of this feature, administrators must turn on both the "Enable Inline Editing" and "Enable Enhanced Lists" preferences from the Setup | Customize | User Interface page.Full Disclosure: There are also some things about this new feature that we want to improve upon in the near future. For one, the fields excluded from inline editing on list views are the same ones excluded on detail pages (Opportunity Stage, Opportunity Forecast Category, Contract Status, most Task and Event fields) with the addition of Opportunity Amount, Opportunity Quantity, Lead Status, and Case Status. The good news is that we're working closely with other teams internally to get these fields enabled for you as soon as we can. (Note that some of these fields already have mass action buttons on list views so you still have a way to edit them.) Also, for companies using record types, the list view has to have filter criteria specified that restricts the result set to one record type in order for editing to be available. There are similar filter restrictions for tasks and events as well, but you can read all about it in both the Summer '08 release notes, as well as the online help. Just navigate to any list view, and click the "Help for this Page" link in the upper right.
We know we still have some work to do, but hopefully you'll find these new enhancements to be both time-saving and fun to use. Everyone have a great summer, and keep those ideas coming!
-- Eric
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How can I prepare for the Summer '08 Release?
May 16, 2008
Need the tools to be prepared for the Summer '08 release? Look no further than this one-stop shop for everything Summer '08 related!Find links for everything Summer '08 related:
- Ideas Coming in Summer '08
- Summer '08 Admin Preview
- Summer '08 Release notes
- Summer '08 Pre-Release
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Summer '08 Release Readiness
May 13, 2008
Summer '08 Release Update
The latest release is just around the corner, and we know everyone is eager to know more about upcoming Summer '08 release features!
We wanted to highlight some of the exciting new features you can expect from our force.com platform and SaaS applications. If you haven't done so already, be sure to check out the Summer '08 Admin Preview for an overview of upcoming features.
Some highlights from the Summer '08 release:
- Visualforce -With Visualforce now generally available in every edition, it's easy to build custom user interfaces using Visualforce and new custom components from the Force.com developer community.
- Salesforce for Google Apps is transforming businesses by providing the most commonly used business applications as a service. Salesforce for Google Apps is a simple, yet powerful combination of your applications that work together and make it incredibly easy for users to communicate, collaborate, and share business information.
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How to participate in the Force.com Summer '08 Sandbox Preview
Apr 18, 2008The salesforce.com Summer '08 release is just around the corner and soon you'll be able to take advantage of great new features!
In preparation for the release, a Sandbox Upgrade Window is scheduled for 12:01 AM PST May 13th 2008, through June 14th, 2008. You can continue to use your Sandbox throughout the Sandbox Upgrade Window to test new customizations or features before rolling them out to users.
As a Force.com Sandbox customer we want to make you aware of the options available to you during this time.To determine whether there is any additional action you need to take to prepare for the Sandbox Upgrade Window please review the choices below and click on the associated link to understand the action you need to take for each:
- If you would you like to participate in the Summer '08 Preview on your Sandbox instance during the Sandbox Upgrade Window please click here.
- If you would like your Sandbox instance to retain the existing Spring '08 functionality until June 14th, 2008 please click here.
- If you have multiple Sandboxes please click here.
- If you plan to upload and/or install any AppExchange packages to or from your Sandbox instance during the Sandbox Upgrade Window please click here.
- If you plan to take no action with your Sandbox instance during the upgrade window please click here.
Please click through the links to access the information you need depending on your answers to the above questions.
If you have additional questions about your Sandbox options in conjunction with the Summer 08 release, please contact the salesforce.com Customer Support team.
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