Salesforce: Some Insights

With Dreamforce '15, everyone got ample view of Lightning framework and its benefits or rather "WOW" aspects. I'm equally excited to see a paramount change in Salesforce UX layer which is was much needed. With all the excitement and eagerness to understand and use Lightning we need to also understand the process to transition from Classic UI (current UI) to Lightning Experience, or it can be a rather painful and unsatisfactory experience. Firstly, we need to understand that it's a complete overhaul of User Experience and not mere CSS change. So, the way users interact with application or developers develop the application or architect designs the applications, changes significantly. Secondly, as of now Lightning Experience is not fully enabled for entire Salesforce and is to be done in phases which makes complete sense. You cannot expect users to learn new system overnight and hence a transition is much appreciated. Not to mention, this also gives user...

As most of my colleagues know me, I have always struggled to remember fieldnames, action names and have hard time copying names of fields from Object detail page and put them onto a Visualforce page, while creating merge fields. I just wanted to share a small tip for all those who share my "struggle" and want to have an easy way to get around that. If you are an eclipse user, Force.com plugin comes up with a very handy tool. Following are the tips to use it:- Open visualforce page in eclipse Open right click menu Click on Force.com> Insert Merge Field Voilla, you have all the objects listed in left hand list and on selecting an object, their fields gets populated in right hand list (as shown below) Additionally, you can also lookup standard actions available by selecting "$Actions" in the left hand list and it would display a list of all actions available (as per screenshot below):- Hope this helps your visualforce development and don't m...

Following are Steps to switch ON the new theme:- 1. Go to Setup 2. In App Setup section go to Customize> User Interface 3. Check "Enable New User Interface theme" 4. Click on Save (Click ok on confirmation box). Tadaa!!! the new theme is ON, but you would be able to see it only when you click on any tab As anybody else would be, I myself was too much excited about it as it was long due. But with all the high expectations, I must say that the final outcome is not so exciting. As far as what I have seen, its just a change from the CSS perspective. The only advantage I see is that there is lesser use of images and more use of CSS, which would help pages to get loaded faster. Apart from that everything else seems to be the same. Strangely, Setup section is still in the old theme and has not been upgraded to new theme. Just a suggestion for SFDC team, we are looking out for more rather than the slight changes in CSS.