Summer '13 Developer Preview Webinar

Summer ’13 Release Developer Preview

Samantha Ready Developer Evangelist @samantha_ready Ryan Upton Developer Evangelist @ryanjupton

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Agenda

ü  Analytics API ü  Tooling Enhancements

ü  Apex Updates / API Updates

ü  Visualforce/HTML5

ü  Force.com Canvas

ü  Other Platform Updates


Analytics API


Analytics API

§  Data and Metadata APIs §  Apex, REST, and SOAP support

§  JSON serialization for easy consumption

§  Unlock 1000s of JavaScript visualizations


Analytics Platform Demo

§  Interactive Visualization Apex, REST, and SOAP support

§  On top of report builder

§  Uses new or existing reports

§  Same security model


Demo


Analytics API Roadmap

§  Currently in pilot – Accepting nominations! •  Define filters dynamically

•  Asynchronous execution

§  About 40 customers signed up

§  Projected GA Winter ’14 •  Apex support

•  Embedded Analytics


Analytics API Pilot Program

§  Get started early, even before the API is GA §  Opportunity to review and improve the API

§  Accepting 50 nominations

§  Submit your ideas with the survey!


Tools


Tool Updates

•  New Data Import Wizard is being piloted in Summer 13. •  Sandbox Templates are Generally Available.

•  Only available for full copy sandboxes

•  Custom Settings are now copied to all Sandboxes. •  Developer and Configuration Only sandboxes


Tool Updates

•  Developer Console has been significantly redesigned. § More flexible and easier to use.

§ The Source Code Editor in the Developer Console now provides autocomplete for Apex code.


Visualforce Updates


New Visualforce Tags

§  Support:clickToDial •  add a phone field to a custom VF page

•  Click to open CTI or CRM Call center

•  Will call automatically and connect to SoftPhone

§  Chatter:userPhotoUpload lets users upload a photo to their Chatter profile page


Configurable Timeout: JS Remoting Requests

§  Configurable timeout up to a 120sec timeout §  To configure, provide an array with configuration settings when you

declare the remoting request •  {buffer: true, escape: true, timeout: 30000 } //default config param array

•  Visualforce.reomoting.timeout = 120000; //set timeout at page level


HTML5 Enhancement Updates

§  Suppress automatic <html> and <body> tag generation using applyHtmlTag=“false” attribute

§  Manifest attribute for <apex:page> tag for offline caching of a page’s critical resources (e.g. <apex:page manifest= “/apex/CacheManifest” …)

§  Pages with doc-type=”html-5.0” no longer performs post process tidying


Apex / API Updates


Scheduled Apex Updates

§  New System.scheduleBatch method can schedule a batch job to run once in the future

§  Returns the scheduled job ID (CronTriggerID) String cronID = System.scheduleBatch(reassign, 'job example', 1);

CronTrigger ct = [SELECT Id, TimesTriggered, NextFireTime FROM

CronTrigger WHERE Id = :cronID];

§  Takes in the following params •  An instance of a class that implements the Database.Batchable interface

•  The job name

•  The time interval, in minutes, after which the job should execute

•  An optional scope value


Chatter in Apex: General Availability formerly ‘Connect in Apex’

§  New and changed classes, input classes, output classes, and enums

§  Documentation now found in the Apex Dev Guide

§  Exposes Chatter API resources as Apex classes in ConnectAPI namespace


SOQL Updates

§  Comparison operators supported for primary key fields SELECT Name FROM MyObject__c WHERE Id > ‘001000000000abc’

§  UPDATE VIEWSTAT clause to report on Salesforce Knowledge article searches and views

SELECT Title FROM KnowledgeArticleVersion WHERE

PublishStatus=‘online’ UPDATE VIEWSTAT


SOQL Updates

§  FOR VIEW and FOR REFERENCE clauses update objects when they are last viewed or referenced via query

•  “Viewed” = user sees details associated with an individual record

•  “Referenced” = user sees details on associated record

§  Clauses useful when objects are viewed in a custom interface (e.g. a mobile app or custom VF page) SELECT Name, Id FROM Contact FOR VIEW LIMIT 1


Force.com Canvas Updates


Canvas

•  Includes support for more editions of Salesforce. •  Gives administrators more fine grained control over who can

access canvas apps. •  Profiles •  Permission Sets

Canvas apps can now be distributed using managed packages.

New methods for resizing a canvas app.


Canvas

•  Events can be sent between canvas apps. •  Pub/Sub model between apps.

•  You can place multiple canvas apps on a Visualforce page.


Demo


Miscellaneous Updates


Misc. Updates •  Custom State and Country Picklists are in beta.

•  Allow for faster data entry

•  Based on ISO-3166, increasing compatibility with other apps

•  Buttons and Links page has been enhanced to add support for publisher actions.

•  Field Level Security defaults to

“on” for custom fields in

Schema Builder.


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Ryan Upton Developer Evangelist

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Samantha Ready

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