Salesforce.com Winter ‘10 New Features
Written by ShamrockCRM on August 11, 2009 – 9:35 pm -Hey everybody! The features for the Salesforce.com Winter 2010 release are starting to be decided upon and there seem to be a lot of good ones, right in time for Dreamforce in November! Here are a few to look at and think about for now:
Scheduling of APEX – This will allow you to have Cronjobs in Salesforce.com. Before, if you didn’t have your own server or Cast Iron, you could not schedule some mass processing task to perform on a daily basis. This will add a lot of functionality on top of workflows existing functionality. Great feature. I wonder how the governors will work with this.
Batch Processing – I believe that this is becoming widely available in Winter ‘10. It will allow you to mass process thousands of records at once to do large scale transformations and calculations at once. Salesforce must be ramping up their data center.
Mass Uploading of Content – Self Explanatory. Could be beneficial for new projects and data migrations.
Specification of how “Others” will be defined in dashboards – You can choose certain thresholds for how a record will show up in “Others” in a dashboard. We’ll see how this really works later.
Changing colors on dashboards – specify your own color schemas.
Compare User Profiles to view the differences – This is great, because it is VERY difficult to manage multiple profiles now.
Multiple Y-Axis Items Allowed in Charts – I guess I will need to see a real life example of this.
“Send From” with Workflow Emails – FINALLY! Instead of mailing from the person who last modified the record, this will allow you to specify an email to send workflow emails from.
Create Quote / Convert to Order / Convert to Assets – Whoa whoa whoa. Rewind. Is Salesforce really implementing some huge new functionality like this? Link
Dashboard drilldown to specified drilldown on report – Very cool
Help text for standard fields – Ok, this might be useful.
There’s more, but these are the most interesting so far. Take a look at the other ideas under consideration!
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By Tom Tobin on Aug 12, 2009 | Reply
The “others” in charts feature won’t let you control the % of things that go into the “others” bucket – we looked and there were only a tiny amount of people who wanted it at 5% rather than 4%. Most thought that if it was there, 4% was ok, but they also wanted it to be optional – especially in the new funnel charts, where every stage is important, even if it is 1% of the total.
By Tom Tobin on Aug 12, 2009 | Reply
BTW, nice synopsis!
Also, I like it when there are 3 chart features in the 11 you chose…