The Spring ‘12 release is almost here. The upgrades will take place the weekends of February 3 and 10.
Riskonnect service will be generally available during the major upgrade for the Spring ’12 release. Your organization should expect to experience a disruption of up to five (5) minutes during the specific timeframe designated for your org. If you are unclear of your upgrade window, please refer to trust.salesforce.com.
Users will receive an error message informing them that the service is momentarily unavailable while we upgrade to the latest release, and will be prompted to log back in momentarily.
Exciting new features and functionality
We will have more information available soon regarding new features and functionality included in the Spring ‘12 release. However, here are highlights of a few of our favorites:
- Smart Search – With Spring ‘12, global search keeps track of which objects you use and how often you use them, and arranges the search results accordingly. Search results for the objects you use most frequently appear at the top of the list. You can also pin important objects to the top of your search results.
- File Recommendations – Chatter recommends files that you might want to follow based on the popularity of the file, determined by the number of people who have viewed or downloaded the file. To see an expanded list of your recommendations, click More in the Recommendations section. If no recommendations appear, then you already viewed all the recommended files.
- With Spring ‘12, Chatter is now available for Android tablets.
- Controlling Items You Don’t Want to Sync – Users now have more control over the items they don’t want to sync. In Salesforce for Outlook Settings, users can now choose whether to sync Microsoft Outlook contacts, events, and tasks they mark as Private. In Microsoft Outlook, users can now indicate any items they don’t want to sync, regardless of whether they mark them as Private, by assigning them to the new category Don’t Sync with Salesforce. This can be helpful when users want to prevent specific contacts, events, and tasks from syncing with Salesforce.
- Dashboard Enhancements – Now, you can create up to three filters per dashboard. Additionally, filters are available for dynamic dashboards and users can post snapshots of filtered dashboards to Chatter and dashboard feeds. There are also added additional fields and operators to dashboard filters.