Salesforce Winter ’24 Release Notes — The Funny Summary — Volume VIII

“Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.” — Tim “Apple” Cook

This article is one of many other volumes for the Winter ’24 Release Notes — The Funny-ish Summary. If you want to jump to a specific Topic please use the links at the bottom of this page.

Salesforce Mobile App

• Enjoy the full CRM Analytics experience! Widget interactions is now extended to the Mobile App as well.
• Adding a Widget on Mobile, means it’s now added automatically on Desktop.
• No need to turn on your laptop anymore only to share your reports with other. You can do it directly via your phone now.
• Pick up your phone, grab your documents, scan them & extract the text for whatever usage you need. Thank you DocumentScanner API 🙏!
• Your briefcase is now searchable, whether you’re online or offline.
• The Offline App Onboarding Wizard is now GA. In short, it helps you in the offline experience initial set-up.
• One more Offline capability to know about. You can attach images to your records while you’re… you guessed it right, offline.
• Dynamic Forms on Mobile are now GA.

Mobile Publisher

Me trying to find a relevant meme for this Mobile Publisher section. Just keep scrolling guys.

• You can now define the Default Method for opening URLs. You also have the ability to test this in Playground.
• Send me location, I’m here! The description can be defined for the location permissions & the push notifications requests. There is also a configurable option to trigger push notifications based on location.
• Meet & interact with NFC Tags near you! The NFCService API will come handy here for that purpose.
• You can now build Sci-fi caliber features around the Biometrics thanks to the BiometricsService API.

Briefcase Builder

• The Briefcase Builder now supports custom metadata types. In short, you can define rules (Via the CMDT) to bring a customized metadata to your offline world.

Salesforce CMS

Content managers not being able to hide their excitement for all these new features

• Who, what, when and why. You can find out who exported & imported what, either content or translations, and when.
• Backward compatibility ⏪ You now have the possibility to add enhanced LWR site channels to CMS workspaces and publish content. While before, you needed to be in an enhanced workspace.
• Imma stop you right there, you just can’t! 🛑 You can prevent user from un-publishing content that has dependencies.
• 2️⃣ things when it comes to Workflows. One, you can assign them by content type. Two, you can automate publishing & un-publishing.
• Officer, show me your badge. Within your enhanced CMS channel, permission sets can be used to restrict its usage.
• It feels good to experience what j̶u̶m̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ navigating as a rabbit feels like 🐰 You can now jump between the content and its folder with ease. Keep in mind we’re talking about the enhanced stuff here.
• (** Uncle Dana White’s voice**) If you didn’t know, now you know. In short, you can have suggestions popping up whenever you decide to search for content.

More Volumes?

• Volume I: General Enhancement, Scheduler, Enablement and Hyperforce.
• Volume II: Lightning Reports & Dashboards and CRM Analytics.
• Volume III: Salesforce Flow.
• Volume IV: Permissions, App Builder, Sharing and External Services.
• Volume V: Security Identity & Privacy.
• Volume VI: Development.
• Volume VII: Experience Cloud.
• Volume VIII: Mobile and Salesforce CMS.
• Volume IX: Commerce.
• Volume X: Revenue.
• Volume XI: Industries.

Authors

• Hamza Ait Ben Said
• Imane Laklaai
• Manal Outaleb
• Mustapha El Hassak
• Oumaima ARBANI
• Zakaria SEMRI