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The listing of Winter '18 features below only apply to both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Feel.

There are boosted Winter '18 features available to Lightning Experience but and Salesforce Archetype but. Visit the Winter 'eighteen Release Highlights post.

ane. Orgs with Person Accounts enabled tin can now define contact sharing rules and manually share business organisation contacts in Org Wide Default Settings.

2. Omni-channel enhancements:

  • The maximum queued piece of work items from 5,000 per hour to 15,000 per hr .
  • Delete user presence statuses using version 41.0 of the SOAP API.
  • (Beta) Omni-channel supervisors can filter amanuensis views to show the appropriate groups of agents.

3. Snap-ins:

  • Your agents tin stop spammers by blocking their the IP address , just like in Live Agent. To exercise so, enable company blocking in your Live Amanuensis configuration.
  • Records created from the snap-in pre-conversation form are automatically attached to the chat transcript.

4. For those orgs using Chatter, y'all can prepare your out of office on your user tape . Go to Chatter Settings and enable the Out of Office. You can set the out of role start/end date and message.

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five. Create and collaborate on Quip documents in Churr, Files Home and Files related lists.

6. Visual flow enhancements:

  • Employ Translation Workbench to translate flows and maintain translations across menstruum versions. No demand to re-create flows anymore.
  • (Beta) Yous can pick from a list of available active screen flows when creating a flow action instead of providing the flow URL .

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  • Configure period to expect for a platform result to occur, within or outside of your Salesforce org, in a Wait flow chemical element.
  • Maximize your menses game. You tin can now add flows to custom components and apps,  using the lightning:menstruum Lightning component. Invoke menstruum from a visualforce folio with the Lightning skin by using a flow lightning component .
  • Embed flows in your community!
  • Laissez passer picklist and multi-picklist values in a period URL and then you lot can utilise the same menstruum URL regardless of whether it'due south used in Classic or Lightning.
  • You lot can now reference encrypted fields , in flows, excluding filters and sorting.

7. Process Architect enhancements:

  • Trigger processes with platform events. Create a process that starts when A platform outcome occurs . And then, select a platform issue and match the event to a record. Go on to configure the process as usual.
  • Select User and Queue by name, not just ID. Note: For any user/queue used in a criteria at present or immediate/scheduled activeness created earlier Winter '18 that you would similar to update to reference the name, you will need to delete the row and create a new one.

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  • You can now reference encrypted fields in your processes, except in filters in the Update Records action.

eight. Collaborative forecasting is available in Sales Console.

nine. Salesforce Connect enhancements:

  • Apply Database.QueryLocator to access external objects from batch Apex, Note: several actions demand to happen to use this.
  • Apply the Salesforce Connect Validator app, available from Salesforce Labs on AppExchange, to examination out your org's interaction with external object information.
  • (Airplane pilot) Audit historical activity of your org's admission to external object data with upshot log files

10. (Beta) Create a custom field using the fourth dimension field type to track time that is not specific to a single engagement. In add-on to the use of TIMEVALUE and TIMENOW functions in your formulas, you can as well employ the new 60 minutes, MINUTE, 2d and MILLISECOND functions.

11. Limit increment for hourly scheduled workflow triggers. New orgs tin use upwards to i,000 workflow fourth dimension triggers per hour. For orgs created prior to Winter xviii, contact your Salesforce representative to update the limit.

12. The use of JavaScript in the HYPERLINK part will be blocked automatically for all orgs on Oct xxx, 2017.

13. Salesforce Programmer Experience (Salesforce DX) volition be by and large available in mid-October 2017. Salesforce DX provides an integrated, cease-to-cease life cycle designed for high-functioning active development, moving the source of truth from the org to a version controlled system. For more information on what Salesforce DX tin can provide, admission the release notes .

14. Security and Authentication enhancements:

  • Logout of all apps with a single logout (SLO). For example, a user is logged out from all continued apps (service providers or relying parties) when they log out of the identity provider; or they log out of an app, they are logged out of the identity provider and all registered connected apps.
  • Update your login screens to the Lightning runtime by selecting "Render Flow in Lightning Runtime."

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  • Named Credentials: Yous can now deploy named credentials via alter sets, packages or Metadata API. Additionally, Named credentials authenticating to external systems must have a URL that brainstorm with https://.
  • Enable additional security measures such as content sniffing protection, cross-site scripting protection and referrer URL protection on visual force pages, Force.com sites and communities.
  • HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) volition redirect browsers to HTTPs on all visualforce pages (cannot be disabled). Administrators can enable HSTS for communities and Force.com sites.

xv. Encryption enhancements:

  • You tin encrypt more standard fields on accounts, contacts and leads .
  • (Beta) You can encrypt the Opportunity Description and Side by side Step fields by contacting Salesforce.
  • (Pilot) You can encrypt the Opportunity Name field sandbox and developer edition environments by contacting Salesforce to participate in the pilot.
  • Mass encryption and decryption of Churr data is at present generally available.. The following are encrypted: feed posts and comments, feed questions and answers, link labels and URLs, feed polls and poll choices and content from your custom Rich Publisher Apps.
  • (Pilot) Salesforce uses a new deterministic encryption scheme with Platform encryption so you can filter encrypted data in reports, listing views, and WHERE clauses in SOQL queries.
  • (Beta) The Encryption Statistics characteristic shows how much of data is encrypted with an active tenant secret.

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  • (Beta) Require high assurance session for key direction activities : Ease your security concerns past setting up 2FA for those performing key direction tasks like generating, rotating, or uploading keys and certificates.
  • Track encryption key direction tasks in result monitoring logs.
  • Using the EventLogFile event monitoring log, track which user provided search terms and search results users click on. Note: These events are available in the API, merely not in the Outcome Monitoring Analytics app.
  • Use the Cognition Article View event type in the EventLogFile standard object to track user Knowledge article views.
  • The UI tracking event type is retired. To runway web clicks, performance, and errors in Lightning Experience and Salesforce1, use the Lightning Experience event types.

16. Development enhancements:

  • Debug logs: The 50 MB limit has been removed and there is now a vii-24-hour interval storage limit.
  • Custom large objects (generally bachelor) gives you the power to to store and manage huge amounts of data (up to i billion records). Admission the release notes for more information.
  • 30 new base of operations lightning components are bachelor!
  • Lightning component JavaScript lawmaking is validated when you save components set up to API version 41.0 and after. If yous must relieve the component changes and demand more time to troubleshoot the validation issues, set the component version to API 40.0 or earlier to disable validations temporarily so when fix, gear up your component's API back to version 41.0.
  • Utilise Lightning Data Service (LDS) to load, create, edit, or delete a record in your component, without using Noon lawmaking. LDS is similar to the Visualforce standard controller, providing access to the data displayed on a folio. The absurd thing near LDS is that it finds requests for same record data and only sends a single shared data request that updates all relevant components..
  • The client payload data limit Increased to 4 MB from 1MB.
  • To mode your Visualforce page to match the Lightning Experience UI when viewed in Lightning Feel or the Salesforce1 app, fix lightningStylesheets="truthful" in the <apex:page> tag. When the page is viewed in Salesforce Classic, it doesn't get Lightning Experience styling.

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  • To run test classes in parallel and remove the default limit for concurrent tests, use the @isTest(isParallel=true) annotation.

17. Field Service enhancements:

  • Check out general release notes.
  • Field Service Managed Package enhancements