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Winter '14

Salesforce Cross-Organization Data Sharing

As a long time Salesforce-to-Salesforce (S2S) advocate and interested follower of the Saleforce integration space the Winter ’14 pilot of cross org data sharing, or COD for short, caught my attention recently. This short post covers the essentials only, for the detail refer to the linked PDF at the end of the post. Note, the […]

Two-Factor Authentication

Winter ’14 introduces two-factor authentication (2FA) for both User Interface and API logins, a long-awaited security feature enabled through User Profile, or Permission Set. The relevant permissions are: Two-Factor Authentication for User Interface Logins Two-Factor Authentication for API Logins The second factor in question being a time-based token generated by a Salesforce supplied, device specific […]

Winter 14 Embedded Analytics

Super quick post on Embedded Analytics just in case this has passed anyone by and because it’s probably my favourite non-technical new feature for some time. In short, it is now possible to embed two charts (not reports) into a standard page layout (custom objects and standard objects), blurring the lines slightly between layouts and […]

Salesforce Analytics API

With Winter ’14 the new Analytics API turns GA. This RESTful style of API consumes standard API call limits, uses OAuth authentication and JSON request/response message formats (representations). The key functionality of the Analytics API is the execution of reports (in synchronous or asynchronous modes), the application of dynamic filtering and the inspection of report […]

Salesforce Winter 14 – Platform

Slightly depressing to be saying this in late August but Winter is almost upon us in the shape of the Winter ’14 (or v29.0) release. The Winter ’14 release notes are now available, find below a brief introduction to 10 Force.com highlights (in no order of significance). 1. Increased Sandbox Storage Limits. Developer sandboxes now […]