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We are so excited to partner with the best in the CRM business, because their releases help you too! The "Spring '21" release for Salesforce is currently rolling out, and below are some of the key enhancements we want to highlight as your Salesforce partner.
Security Updates
Manual Record Sharing
Admins will be able to rejoice everywhere, the “Sharing” button is now available in Salesforce Lightning! Your users will now be able to share a record to a user, or group of users on demand, without having to adjust Profiles, Roles, or Permission Sets.
Record Name & System Field Restrictions
To better protect your Salesforce org’s data, you can restrict who can view record names in lookup fields and system fields, such as Created By and Last Modified By. If you enable the Require permission to view record names in lookup fields setting, users need Read access to these records or the View All Lookup Record Names permission to view this data.
Customize Field Mappings for Event Sync
Control how events sync between Microsoft Exchange and Salesforce. By managing how fields map between the two applications, teams stay up to date about the information that’s important to them.
Flows - Compare Previous Value to New Value
You can now compare previous values of records to new values saved in Flow. This will allow further flexibility of Flows, for example: Send email notification to Advisor if AUM drops more than 10% in a day.
Field Limits & Help Text Updates
- Improve performance with new limits on picklist values: Salesforce Details.
- Use more characters in field-level help text: upped from 255 to 510 characters.
What’s New in the Salesforce Mobile App
The latest round of new and improved Salesforce mobile app features includes a new Salesforce home screen for iOS, activity timeline for Android, and more.
| Salesforce App Enhancements and Changes | Description | Android | Apple - iOS | Full Site Setup |
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| Get Comfortable on Mobile Home (Beta) | Customize your mobile app |  |
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| Navigation and Actions | ||||
| Your Home Screen & the Quick Navigation Widget |
Displays the first four navigation items of the navigation bar, or customize |
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| Improved Scrolling | Improved scrolling creating a better experience | |
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| Productivity Features | ||||
| Keep Track of Your Activities with Activity Timeline on Android |
Activity timeline is available Relationships and Contacts. Users can view all the tasks, events, logged calls, and emails associated with a record. |
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| Access and Security | ||||
| Get Ready for Changes to Apple’s Privacy Policy | Apple placed additional tracking restrictions on third-party applications. This addresses those. | |
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| Protect Your Data with Enhanced Mobile Security Updates | You can now enforce new policies like checking biometric login credentials every time a user opens the app. | |
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| Setup | ||||
| Improve Lightning Page Performance on Mobile | When setting up Pages, prompts for mobile performance give you best practices so that Elements works well on app. | |
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YES |
