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The Spring ’13 Preview Release Notes Are Out!

By Michelle Chapman-Thurber | Published: December 20, 2012
Spring is here!

The weather outside is frightful, but Spring is right around the corner. Spring ’13, that is.

Here are just a few things we’ll be delivering in this release.

User-Focused Help
We broke up the huge 4000+ page “How to be Successful with Salesforce” user guide into 14 new downloadable guides, divided by role, Salesforce product area, and experience level. Now  you can download only the guides that are relevant to you.  The new guides include “Salesforce Basics” for new users, “Set Up and Maintain Your Salesforce Organization” for administrators, “Collaborate with Everyone” for Chatter users, “Enhance Salesforce with… Continue reading

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Watch and Learn: New Videos for Winter ’13

By Michelle Chapman-Thurber | Published: October 17, 2012
Making Your Reports Run Faster

Check out these seven new videos, created specifically for the Salesforce Winter ’13 release. Learn tips and tricks for working in Chatter, Visual Workflow, reporting, and more! Continue reading

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Watch and Learn: New Videos for Summer ’12

By Michelle Chapman-Thurber | Published: June 6, 2012

If you learn better by watching than by reading, check out some of our great new videos for Summer ’12!

Using Cross Filters in Salesforce Reports
Narrow down a report to find just the records that you need. Cross filters let you fine-tune your results by including or excluding records from related objects, without having to write formulas or code.

Using the Developer Console to Edit, Execute, and Debug Apex Classes
Learn how to use the Developer Console to build and troubleshoot on the Force.com platform. Watch as we use the Developer Console to open and navigate through… Continue reading

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Spring ’12 – Top 10 Developer Features

By Dianne Siebold | Published: January 18, 2012

The Spring ’12 release is here, and if you’re a developer, you’re probably asking “what’s in it for me?” The answer is, plenty. Here, in no particular order, is my take on the top 10 features for developers.

  1. SOQL OFFSET (Developer Preview) – This is a new clause on the SOQL SELECT statement that lets you “skip” rows in the returned record set. You can use OFFSET together with LIMIT to break up returned data into blocks of records. Note that OFFSET is applied to the result set returned at the time of the query. There’s no server-side
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Salesforce APIs – What They Are & When to Use Them

By Dianne Siebold | Published: October 19, 2011

There are a number of different APIs that developers can use to integrate with a Salesforce organization. But sometimes it’s difficult to know what each API is for and when to use it. To that end, I sat down with Pat Patterson, Principal Developer Evangelist here at Salesforce, to talk about the different APIs that are available.

In our discussion, we wanted to give you an overview of all the API options and also impart some information about when you would want to use each of them.

D: Thanks for joining me today.

P: You bet… Continue reading

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Workbooks at Dreamforce – Come, Play, Learn.

By Michelle Chapman-Thurber | Published: August 31, 2011

It’s Dreamforce week!  If you’re one of the many planning to spend some time in the Developer Zone, be sure to take advantage of the great workbooks we’ve printed up just for you.

Our workbooks are designed to take you through a feature step-by-step in tutorial style.  No prior experience with the feature is necessary.

Come on over to the Dev Zone, grab a workbook, and spend some time at a station walking through the exercises. Sit down, play around, and learn a new feature! You’ll see some familiar titles and some that are totally new this year… Continue reading

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