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Summer '13

Salesforce Summer 13 – Metadata Deployment

Quick post highlighting some Summer ’13 goodness for metadata deployment. 1. Abort a running deployment – This is a massive improvement enabling failed or inadvertent deployments to be cancelled whilst in progress. Anyone working on large deployments will bear witness how frustrating it can be to watch a 30 minute deployment run to completion with […]

Salesforce Summer 13 – Platform

The Summer ’13 release notes are now available, find below a brief introduction to 10 Force.com highlights (in no order of significance). 1. New Setup interface. Clean new interface for the Setup area, with a top-level “Setup” link in the header region. Administration and Personal settings are now separate, the latter is accessed from a […]

Salesforce Summer 13 – Checkpoints

My first post on this blog back in March 2012 related to Simulated Breakpoints, a developer console feature enabling a head dump to be captured when code execution hit a specified line(s) of Apex script. Whilst not comparable to the power of breakpoints in debugging with other languages, Simulated Breakpoints was a definitely step forward […]

Salesforce Summer 13 – Chatter Publisher Actions

In the first of a series of short posts looking at interesting aspects of the forthcoming Summer 13 release, this posts explores a new capability to add custom publisher actions to the Chatter UI. In the screenshot below we see the end-result, i.e. a custom publisher action “Create Account” and the UI displayed when invoked. […]