Category: Summer16

Salesforce Summer’16 release is a milestone release for Salesforce as it is their 50th release. But apart from being the 50th release, there are many reasons for considering this release as the milestone release. In this release, Salesforce brings some of the really key features which are really awesome.In this post, I am going to discuss about the new feature called – Creating Calendar from anything in Salesforce.Really!! Yes, as the name suggests now you can create a calendar from any object in Salesforce. As long as you have some date fields present in the custom object, you can create calendar from that object. This feature is available in Lightning Experience only and available in Enterprise, Unlimited and Developer edition.But to understand why we need calendar let’s give you an example. Say you are working with opportunities. So from the list view – “All Opportunities”, you can get the details about the closing date of the opportunities. But it’s still in the list view showing the details in rows. But think if you can get a visual calendar representation of the same information, it will have more powerful impact as well as give you the information more quickly. From the calendar, you can easily identify which opportunities are closing this day, or this week, or this month. So yes, this is really a cool feature introduces by Salesforce.So without...