Winter 17 for Lightning
Now that Dreamforce 16 is over, it is time to focus on the next phase of Salesforce, Lightning. Salesforce Lightning Experience started off slow but has improved dramatically with each release. Personally, I love Lightning Experience. I think it is modern, sleek, and ultimately is the future of Salesforce. At the moment, there is a hanging issue with the performance but that should be handled in future releases. The Winter 17 release makes some of the biggest jumps in the Lightning Experience yet. Let’s talk about some of my favorite features:
Lightning Component Actions
Lightning component actions are custom actions that that invoke a Lightning component. One of the coolest parts about this feature is that it supports Apex or Javascript. This opens the window to add a lot of custom functionality to deliver the best user experience in your Salesforce instance.
Lightning Login
This is great –– Salesforce is catching up with the times with Lightning Login. You can receive a notification on your phone and authenticate via fingerprint or PIN. No more hassle of having to remember passwords. This is a significant boost to convenience and efficiency which makes this a must have. Fellow Arkie, Jason Atwood, talked about how much he liked this in one of his recent blog posts. I agree with him, this is definitely ‘The Good Stuff’.
Assign a Custom Record Page per Lightning App
The new release allows you to choose from one of two options when creating a custom record page. You can either make the record page default for all users or you can assign the page to one or more Lightning apps in your Salesforce instance. This is really great because it gives you an awesome level of customization, allowing you to segment your org and deliver a unique user experience per app in Salesforce.
Inline Editing of List Views
I know I’m not the only one that hates having to go and update individual records from a list view. With the new release, you can now edit individual fields inline and also mass edit records inline directly from a list view. No need to ever have to dive into a record from a list view to make a quick change again. This is big and I know that another fellow Arkie, Holly, agrees with me. It’s a huge time saver and as we all know, efficiency is key.
Invoke A Process From A Process
This is one of my favorite features in this release. The new release grants us the ability to call a process from within another process. This with the combination of being able to invoke flows within a process gives us a ton of flexibility and limitless potential. With that said, this is something that you need to be careful with because it can lead to a lot of potential issues if you are not.
Winter 16 makes the biggest leaps in Lightning functionality yet and Salesforce is listening to us, delivering on our ideas in the IdeaExchange. This is still only the beginning and the sky's the limit for Lightning. I can’t wait to see what the next release has in store for us!
How do you feel about Lightning? Want to share your experiences or opinions? Share them with me on the Arkus Facebook page, in the comments below, in the Success Community, or to me directly via Twitter at @RyanOwensRPO.
