How and When Do Features Become Available?
Supported Browsers
We’ve made some changes to our supported browsers documentation, making it easier to find what you need. Supported browsers for Salesforce vary depending on whether you use Salesforce Classic or Lightning Experience.
| Feature | Enabled for users | Enabled for administrators/developers | Requires administrator setup | Contact Salesforce to enable |
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| Extended Support for Accessing Lightning Experience Using Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 11 | |
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| Supported Browsers for Salesforce Classic | |
Salesforce Overall
Summer ’17 gives you more reasons to love Lightning Experience. We’ve given the Lightning Experience Migration Assistant an easier-to-use wizard-style interface, you can now use keyboard shortcuts to maximize efficiency, success messages now include an active link that takes you to the record you created, and you can open multiple records and related records on one screen with Lightning console split view.
Sales
Deliver high-impact Lightning Experience features that keep sales teams laser-focused on the leads and deals most likely to generate sales. Improve your company’s reputation and relieve your duplicate management headaches by getting a grip on duplicate records. And handle the sales process like a champ—directly in Gmail.
Service
Route cases and push work to the right agent at the right time with Lightning Omni-Channel. Set up Lightning Knowledge and Communities painlessly with our guided, step-by-step setup flows. And get more done remotely with Field Service Lightning preventative maintenance, parts requests, and stock transfers. Work where your customers are!
Analytics
Drive decisions with insights from reports and dashboards and Wave Analytics. Lightning Experience reports and dashboards get more collaborative with dashboard filters, improvements to report subscriptions, and other enhancements. With Einstein Discovery and the new Wave features, analytics become more accessible for both admins and business users.
Communities
Communities makes a splash this summer with a slew of flexible new features. Extend Salesforce CRM to your partner network, and drive channel sales with the native Lightning Partner Central solution. Use CMS Connect to render content from your content management system (CMS) in your community for consistent branding and easier maintenance. Switch between communities and see real-time notifications with App Launcher and Notifications support. We’ve got lots more to show you, so dive in!
Chatter
Organize feeds with topics, enjoy the new streams home, manage group membership with ease, and see who’s been most active in Chatter.
Files
Libraries are available in Lightning Experience, even for users without Salesforce CRM Content licenses. Multiple upgrades to libraries help you work better in Lightning Experience: add multiple files to a library, customize your file detail pages, and take action on files right from your Chatter feed.
Salesforce Integrations: Taking Salesforce to the Next Level
Empower your users to be more productive by connecting Salesforce to some of the industry’s leading business applications. Most of these integrated apps are available in both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience, but a few are available in only one or the other.
| Feature | Enabled for users | Enabled for administrators/developers | Requires administrator setup | Contact Salesforce to enable |
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| Skype for Salesforce (Beta) in Lightning Experience: Simplified Administration Between Microsoft 365® and Salesforce | |
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| Google Integration: General Availability for Lightning for Gmail and Lightning Sync | |
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| Microsoft® Integration: More Improvements, Increased Productivity | |
Mobile
Salesforce mobile apps help your users stay productive throughout their busy days, no matter where they are. So we’ve been hard at work adding new ways to help your users outside of the office. Salesforce1 offers improvements to search, approvals, and many other sales features, so sales professionals can take care of even more business from their phones.
Financial Services Cloud
Share the wealth of Financial Services Cloud Lightning components that are now available in Communities. Get on the fast track to creating individuals and adding them to groups with the new Client Profile Builder. Take advantage of quick actions in Wave for Financial Services Cloud.
| Feature | Enabled for users | Enabled for administrators/developers | Requires administrator setup | Contact Salesforce to enable |
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| Build a Digital Portal for Independent Advisors with Lightning Components | |
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| Access Financial Services Cloud in Communities | |
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| Create an Individual with the Client Profile Builder | |
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| Take Action in Einstein Analytics for Financial Services Cloud | |
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| Unlock Member Details on Relationship Groups | |
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| Configure Account and Contact Information | |
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| Let the Last Name Be First | |
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| Assign a Permission Set License | |
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Health Cloud
We’ve streamlined the care of patients with chronic or long-term medical conditions by allowing them to have multiple, concurrent care plans and more than one care manager. And now patient lists created from the Einstein Analytics for Health Cloud app can be sent to and used in the Health Cloud console. To make your life easier as an admin, we’ve packaged up three new Lightning components that let you create patient communities in no time at all.
Customization
Make your Lightning pages smarter by adding the new Einstein Recommendations component. Navigate more quickly around the Object Manager and other parts of Setup in Lightning Experience. And get more done in Lightning Experience with enhanced approvals and Lightning flow runtime. If that’s not enough, check out the usability improvements to our data import tools and global picklists.
Security and Identity
Transaction Security has a handy new Lightning Experience interface, formulas now work with encrypted fields, and you can connect your website to your backend CRM with Embedded Login.
Deployment
| Feature | Enabled for users | Enabled for administrators/developers | Requires administrator setup | Contact Salesforce to enable |
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| New Change Set Components | |
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| Modify All Data Permission Is Automatically Selected When You Select Deploy Change Sets | |
Development
Whether you’re using Lightning components, Visualforce, Apex, or our APIs with your favorite programming language, these enhancements to Force.com help you develop amazing applications, integrations, and packages for resale to others.