Salesforce Overall: More Tools to Help You Adopt Lightning Experience, Keyboard Shortcuts, and More Ways to Navigate and Manage Records

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.

Improve Files Adoption with Optimizer Analysis
Optimizer now analyzes whether your users are working with Files features to manage their documents in Salesforce more effectively.
Identify and Replace S-Controls with Optimizer Analysis
Optimizer now analyzes whether your implementation contains s-controls, a feature that Salesforce no longer supports. Optimizer recommends replacing all s-controls with Lightning components or Visualforce pages.
Improve Service Cloud Adoption with Optimizer Analysis
Optimizer now analyzes whether your implementation uses certain Service Cloud features that can help your support agents work more productively.
New Features in Optimizer Analysis
Optimizer now analyzes your implementations’ static resource limits and formula fields.
Improve Feature Adoption with Optimizer Analysis
Optimizer now analyzes whether your implementation uses certain features that can help your users work more productively.
Storage Limits, Unsupported Browsers, and New Analysis in Optimizer Reports
Optimizer now analyzes several new items across your implementation. These features are available in late May 2017.
Keep Your Code Current with Optimizer
Optimizer now analyzes your Apex and Visualforce code to check whether your implementation uses out-of-date API versions. Optimizer flags the code so that your developers can update it to the latest API version. This feature is available in May 2017.
Find Unused Reports and Dashboards with Optimizer
Optimizer now checks for reports and dashboards that haven’t been run in more than a year so that you can delete them from your implementation. This feature is available in May 2017.
Get Better Assistance with the Restyled Lightning Experience Migration Assistant
To guide you through the optimal path to enabling Lightning Experience, we’ve given the Migration Assistant an easier-to-use, wizard-style interface. The tools for assessing and previewing your org’s readiness, setting up features and users, and flipping the switch are now visible at a glance—and faster to access. Oh, and it’s also easier to find the Migration Assistant in Setup. This change applies to both Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.
Get Expanded Analysis When You Check Your Lightning Experience Readiness
The Readiness Check is chock full of more actionable advice for preparing your Salesforce implementation for Lightning Experience. We’ve got specifics on preparing Sales and Service Console and Salesforce Knowledge, as well as roadmap and usage data for several Service Cloud features. In addition, we’re building on our past advice for resolving Cases and JavaScript buttons and links, and adding insight on who’s ready to move to Lightning Experience. We’ve also reorganized instructions on how to use your report to inform your rollout plan moving forward. And since it only takes one click to get a personalized report sent straight to your email inbox, there’s no reason to wait to kick off the Readiness Check. This change applies to both Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.
Switch More Users to Lightning Experience
When you enable Lightning Experience, it’s important to get your users working in—and benefiting from—the new interface. To help, the Switch Users to Lightning Experience tool now displays all users in your org, so you can switch the exact group that you want in one go. The tool also makes it easier to find specific users in the list and to see which users in your org are eligible to switch. This change applies to both Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.
Make Lightning Experience the Only Experience
Ready to move from Salesforce Classic to Lightning Experience without looking back? Just hide the option to switch to Salesforce Classic from your Lightning Experience users so that they stay in Lightning Experience. This feature is new in both Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.
Ditch Your Mouse—Keyboard Shortcuts Are Here
You can now use keyboard shortcuts to maximize your efficiency and speed while working in Lightning Experience. You can search for, edit, save, and close a record—all without touching a mouse. We’ve even got keyboard shortcuts to help you go to the publisher and post to a feed. So start planning what you want to do with all the time you’re going to save! By default, keyboard shortcuts work in all Lightning apps. This change applies to Lightning Experience only.
Navigate to a Record Directly from an Action Success Message
We added a small but powerful enhancement to the success message that displays when you create or update a record via a quick action. The message now includes the record name as an active link that takes you right to that record. This change applies to Lightning Experience and all versions of the Salesforce1 mobile app.
Lightning Console Apps: See and Do More (Generally Available)
Lightning console apps are generally available and include more features that help your users be productive. With the addition of split view, keyboard shortcuts, and person accounts, users have everything they need at their fingertips. These changes apply to Lightning Experience only.
Choose Utility Icons for Your Lightning Apps More Easily
When creating or editing Lightning apps, you can choose icons for your utilities directly in the Lightning app wizard. Previously, you clicked a link to open a new browser tab that listed the Salesforce Lightning Design System utility icons. This change applies to Lightning Experience only.
Rich Text Editors Reenabled for LockerService
You can now use rich text editors and edit fields with rich text when the LockerService critical update is active. Previously, rich text editors were disabled in sandboxes and Developer Edition orgs when the LockerService critical update was active. This change applies to Lightning Experience and all versions of the Salesforce1 mobile app.
Access Field History Related Lists in Lightning Experience
Track and display the field history for standard or custom objects, regardless of which Salesforce interface you’re using. If you added the History related list to objects in Salesforce Classic, you can now see it in Lightning Experience. You can also set up a field history related list in Lightning Experiences. This change applies to Lightning Experience, Salesforce Classic, and all versions of the Salesforce1 mobile app.
Preview Case Details with Case Hovers
Users can hover over cases to get a sneak peek at the details, including the description and latest update. No more opening the case record to get important information—talk about a time saver! Support agents who work with cases all day will appreciate this feature. Case hovers work automatically, so there’s nothing for you to set up. This change applies to Lightning Experience only.
Stay in Your Current App When You Open Favorites
Using a sales app? Working with the Lightning console? Your favorites don’t care. They open in whichever app you’re using. No more switching to the app where you created your favorite. Now use your favorites from anywhere to instantly access important Salesforce pages, like records, lists, groups, and dashboards. This change applies to Lightning Experience only.
Find Favorites with a Simplified Favorites List
We removed the top favorites section from your favorites list to simplify the way you access your favorite pages in Salesforce. Favorites give you instant access to important records, lists, groups, dashboards, and other frequently used pages. Turns out, top favorites wasn't your favorite way to use favorites. You no longer see top favorites because we're focused on the features that matter to you most and, based on your feedback, this one didn't. This change applies to Lightning Experience only.
“Disable Access to Lightning Experience and the Salesforce1 Mobile Browser App from IE11” Critical Update Canceled
The timetable for the end of support date for Internet Explorer version 11 (IE11) for Lightning Experience has changed significantly. As a result, this critical update has been canceled.
Enjoy a Spiffier Look and Feel in Lightning Experience
We've enhanced the look and feel of some areas to bring a little Trailhead pizazz into Lightning Experience. For example, we've updated the text and visuals on Setup Home, and there's more engaging text on the Profile page. This change applies to Lightning Experience only.
Search: External Search Results, a Better Way to Find Opportunities, and More
Extend your reach with search. Connect external search providers to see results from Google, Dropbox, Confluence, and other repositories right in Salesforce. Trying to find an opportunity in a sea of similarly named opportunities? Add the account name to your search term to find the right one. Plus, see when your search term has been spell corrected, and search more objects.

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