Our Top 10 new features from the Salesforce ☁️ Spring’23 release🍃
Happy new year 2023 🎉! We hope this year brings happiness, good health, and success to all 🥳. As the new year kicks off 🎊, we’re excited to share with you a list of our top 10 favorite features 🌟 coming with the new Salesforce Spring ’23 release 🍃.
Below the key dates 📅 for this release
- Sandbox preview starts 🧪: 06 January
- Production release weekends 🚀: 13 January, 03 and 10 February
1) MFA Auto-Enablement 🔐
Salesforce will be automatically enabling MFA 🔒 for direct logins. This process will roll out in stages throughout 2023, beginning with the Spring ’23 release 🍃. In the future, MFA will be a required part of the Salesforce login process. To avoid potential disruptions 💥 to your users, it is recommended 💡that you enable MFA as soon as possible.
2) Field History Tracking for Activities 📜
Salesforce has added a new feature 🆕 that allows users to track field changes on events 📅 or tasks ✅. To set it up, admins can go to the Object Manager in Setup, tick Set History Tracking and select up to six fields on Event or Task object 📂. The Activity History 📜 list will appear in the Related tab on default event and task pages, or admins can add the Activity Record History component 📈 to any custom event and task Lightning page📄.
3) Reports & dashbords 📊
Spring ’23 🍃 will allow users to set up personalized report filters 🔍 for each user 🙋♂️. This can be useful 💡 for creating customized reports 📊 that personalize the results 📈 for each member of the team 💪.
You can now subscribe to up to 15 reports & dashboards 📈📊. The previous limit 🔒 was 7.
This release will introduce a new feature called “collections”, which allows users to organize 📂, access 🔍, and share 🤝 their important reports 📊 and dashboards 📈 in one place. This feature can be enabled ✅ in Reports and Dashboards Settings 🔧 or Analytics settings . To create a collection, users can go to the App Launcher and select Analytics 📊, then click + in the Collections 🗂️ panel on Unified Home and enter the name 📝 and optional description for the new collection.
4) Picklist Management 🔠
We have new 🆕 features in the Spring ’23 release 🍃 for managing and cleaning up picklist values . These features include the ability to bulk delete 🗑 inactive picklist values, bulk manage picklist values (delete 🗑, activate 🚀, deactivate 🚫, or replace 🔄), and limit the number of inactive picklist values 🔒 to improve system performance 💪. In addition, Salesforce has added optional picklist fields for Pronouns and Gender Identity 🌈 on the Lead, Contact, and Person Account objects 📂 to allow businesses to capture more inclusive data 🌟 about their customers
5) Experience Cloud ⛅
The Spring ’23 release 🍃 includes several new features 💡(in beta 🧪) for Lightning Web Components (LWC) 💻 sites 🌐: the Actions Bar component 🔄, the Notifications component 🔔, and the Record Detail component 📝. These features 💡 allow to access important actions 🔄, view notifications 🔔, and view and edit records 📝 in LWC sites 🌐.
The new Metadata API DigitalExperienceBundle 📂 and DigitalExperienceConfig 📄 types (now in GA 🎉) can be used to deploy enhanced Lightning Web Components (LWC) 💻 sites 🌐 and track changes 📊 on them 💻. this also allows partial deploy of LWC sites 🌐, offering more control over the updates 🔄 pushed to production 🚀.
6) Sharing Updates 👁️
In the Spring ’23 release 🍃, Salesforce will allow users 🙋♂️ to view the sharing hierarchy of a record and understand 💡 who has access to it 🔓. Users can also see the reason 🤔 why a user has access to a record and find out if a user’s access is blocked by a restriction rule 🚫. This feature 🌟 can be helpful 💡 for managing and understanding record access in an organization 🏢.
And Salesforce is beta testing 🧪 a feature 🆕 that aims to improve 🔝 the speed 🏎️ of automatic sharing rule calculation 🔢 for Account objects . This feature is expected to lead to faster org-wide default and account sharing rule recalculation 🔄.
7) Lightning Builder 🏗️
In Spring ’23 release 🍃 we will be able to customize ⚒️ desktop forecast ⛅ pages using the Lightning App Builder 🏗️, which can be useful 💡 for sales leaders who need to track 📈 and forecast sales data 💰 in a way that meets the specific needs 📝 of their business 🏢.
Dynamic actions for standard objects 📋 are now generally available✅for desktop 💻, allowing businesses 🏭 to add more flexibility 🧩 and control to actions 🔄 on their record pages 📝. Previously, dynamic actions were only generally available for a few select standard objects.
With the Spring ’23 release 🍃, Dynamic Forms 📝 can be used to enhance Case and Lead record pages 📄. This capability 💪 was previously only available for certain record pages 📄 (Account, Person Account️, Contact, and Opportunity)
8) Salesforce Flow 🔀
Flow now allows 🔓 to bring in external data 📊 and automate processes 🔄 with it, using HTTP Callout action (Beta 🧪). This can be done without writing code 💻 or using a middleware service like Mulesoft.
Interactive Components (in beta 🧪) allow admins to build screens 📺 that feel like single-page applications, by allowing components 🔧 to react to each other 🤝 on the same screen 🖥️. This feature reduces the number of screens 🖥️ users 🙋♂️ need to navigate 🧭
You can now see element descriptions 📝 on the flow canvas 🖌️ (in Auto-layout), which improves clarity 🌟 and maintainability 👍
The Migrate to Flow tool 🛠️ can now also convert ➡️ Process Builder processes 🔄 into flows , helping businesses 🏭 to streamline their processes and take advantage of the advanced capabilities 💪 of Salesforce Flow 🔀.
9) DevOps Center📦
DevOps Center is now generally available ✅. With this tool ⚒️, admins/developers 🧑💻 can manage their changes 🔄 and releases using a point-and-click interface 🖱️ or directly from the source control system 🔒, or a combination of both 🤝. Behind the scenes, the DevOps Center manages source control branches 🌿 so that developers 💻 and builders 🖱️can focus on development tasks 📝. This feature can be useful 💡 for streamlining the change and release management process 🚀 and helping teams work more efficiently 💪
10) Developement💻
<template>
<div lwc:ref="myDiv"></div>
</template>export default class extends LightningElement {
renderedCallback() {
console.log(this.refs.myDiv);
}
}In Lightning Web Components 🌩️, we will now be able to use refs 📌 to easily access DOM elements. Previously, developers could only use querySelector() 🔍.
<!-- example.html -->
<template>
<template lwc:if={expression1}>
Statement 1
</template>
<template lwc:elseif={expression2}>
Statement 2
</template>
<template lwc:else>
Statement 3
</template>
</template>New 🆕 improved conditional directives (lwc:if , lwc:elseif, and lwc:else) that replace the legacy if:true and if:else directives ⚒️ in Lightning Web Components 🌩️
List<Account> acc = [SELECT Id FROM Account WITH USER_MODE];Account acc = new Account(Name='test');
insert as user acc;The User Mode Database Operations feature 🆕 is now GA 🎉, allowing developers to run database and search operations with the FLS and object permissions of the running user 🤓, rather than in the default system mode 🖥️. This can enhance the security 🔐 of Apex code by respecting the access📜 of the running user.
Integer delayInMinutes = 5;
ID jobID = System.enqueueJob(new MyQueueableClass(), delayInMinutes);The System.enqueueJob method now includes an optional override 🆕 that allows developers 🧑💻 to specify a delay 🕰️ (0–10 minutes) when adding queueable jobs 💼 to the asynchronous execution queue 📥. This can be useful for scheduling tasks 📅 to run at a later time 🕰️.
%dw 2.0
input records application/csv
output application/apex
---
records map(record) -> {
FirstName: record.first_name,
LastName: record.last_name,
Email: record.email
} as Object {class: "Contact"}DataWeave in Apex is currently in beta 🧪, and it allows Apex developers 💻 to use the Mulesoft DataWeave library 📚 within the Apex runtime to transform data 📊 into different formats 📃, which makes data transformation 🔀 easier and more efficient.
