How can i tell if i’m on spring 17 salesforce

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How to know which version of Salesforce spring you are using?

Login to Salesforce Instance –> Go to Home Tab –> If you look at top right side of window, you can see “Spring’17 for Developers label ,which means we are using/in Spring’17 release. NOTE: Hovering over Tab only works in Classic, not in Lightning.

How to find out what Salesforce edition you have?

Look at the title of your web browser. Re: How to find out what salesforce edition you have? the reason is that the new versions of Browsers do not have Title Bars anymore. The other gentleman’s suggestion in generating cryptic code to determine the version is not practical and user friendly for clients.

How to find the instance details in Salesforce?

Option 1: 1.Login Your Org –> SetUp –> Company Information –>Instance –> Take the value of this 2.Open the link –> trust.salesforce.com –> status.salesforce.com –> status button click –> search with above instance –> After it finds the instance result –> click on the link –> Right side it show the Instance Details.

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How do I know what version of Salesforce platform I have?

Log into Salesforce and click Setup. In the Administer section, click Company Profile > Company Information. Your Salesforce version is listed in the “Organization Edition” field.


How do I check my Salesforce instance status?

Go to status.salesforce.com. Select the “Search Instance or Domain” text box in the top-center of the page.


How do I know what version of sandbox I have?

Follow the steps below to identify an org’s instance and navigate to its Trust page. The ‘Instance Details’ section on the right hand side of the resulting page will contain the current release version for your org.


How do I know what type of sandbox I have in Salesforce?

Login to the production environment and follow the below stated steps:Click on Setup.Scroll down to Administration Setup.Select the Sandbox to see the Sandbox List.


What is Salesforce uptime?

Our track record speaks for itself: Salesforce1 Platform has a proven 99.9+ percent uptime record for years. To ensure maximum uptime and continuous availability, Salesforce1 Platform provides redundant data protection and the most advanced facilities protection available, along with a complete data recovery plan.


WHAT IS instance name in Salesforce?

Your Salesforce instance refers to the server that your Salesforce organization lives on. Many Salesforce orgs (also referred to as an “instance”) live together on the same server, a method of server management called “multi-tenancy”.


What is the latest Salesforce version?

current version is 43.0 summer18.


How do I know if my Salesforce Sandbox is on preview?

To determine which instance your Sandbox is on, log into your production org and navigate to your Sandbox List page (Search “Sandbox” in the Quick Find bar on the Setup Home Page). Your sandbox instance is listed in the Location column above.


Is my sandbox on a preview instance?

Your sandbox is on a non-preview instance. Refresh it between now and 6:00 PM PT on May 5, 2022 (01:00 UTC on May 6, 2022) to try out Summer ’22. If you refresh your sandbox after the deadline or your Sandbox isn’t completed in time, it is built on a non-preview instance.


How many types of sandbox are there in Salesforce?

fourThere are four major types of Salesforce Sandboxes – Full Copy Sandbox, Developer Sandbox, Developer Pro Sandbox, and Partial Data Sandbox.


How many types of Sandboxes we have in Salesforce?

Salesforce provides majorly four types of Sandboxes.


How do I know if my sandbox is refreshed?

If you log into your production org and navigate to Setup > Deploy > Sandboxes , you can see the Completed On value for each sandbox in the list view. This field tells you when the refresh completed.


Features Your Users Will Love

Chatter streams: Customize your chatter feed into different streams with updates to features you care about, like group opportunities, cases, people & more. For example, I created a Chatter stream with my teammates in it so I can surface their updates.
Inline editing in List View: Breeze through record updates with inline editing in List View.


Features Admins Will Love

Utility Bar: Get quick access to common productivity tools, like Notes and Recent Items. Utility bar appears as a fixed footer on the bottom of your screen that you can access to open utilities in docked panels.


Release Best Practices

Outside of reviewing the features mentioned in this post and webinar, there are more steps to planning for Salesforce releases. Here are your next steps:


Composite Resource

Imagine we are doing REST API call from external system by creating Account first and then contact. In between if internet connection is gone or user closes browser and only Account created without contact ? From Spring 17, we can reduce number of REST API calls made by combining them in single request.


reCAPTCHA on Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case

If you are using Web-to-Lead or Web-to-Case for your Salesforce instance, you may already know the spamming problem. From this release, we can add reCAPTCHA in web forms which will reduce spamming problem drastically.


Bookmark your favorite pages

Your Salesforce user navigates same pages over and over and everytime they use minimum 4-5 clicks ? Its time to save the click using favorite feature for Lightning user interface. We can bookmark any page in Salesforce and then navigate quickly by using favorite icon available at top right corner as shown in below image


Limit global search to specific Object

In Global search, now we can limit our search to specific object only, saving clicks and improving speed.


Filter Reports via URL Parameters

Like Salesforce classic, we can create a report URL to dynamically filter on report. We can use fv0 , fv1 … etc in URL to specify filter. fv0 represents first condition, fv1 second and so on.


Run Flow with Lightning Skin

If you are a visual flow user, there are two good news for you. First, Visual flow now displayed in Lightning skin from Spring 17. However, you would need to enable it first using below steps


Two Column Layout in Flow

Do you remember my post regarding creating two column layouts in flow ? I know, I know, that you didn’t liked that JavaScript approach to convert flow into two column layout. And honestly, even I was not happy with the solution however that was the only way known to me but not now.

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