The Salesforce platform is continuously evolving and improving to deliver optimal performance for its end users. That’s why several times a year, new features are introduced. Here is an overview of the innovations and enhancements users released in the summer 2022 update:
- Admin Preview
- Sales Cloud
- Service Cloud
- Commerce Cloud
- Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, powered by Pardot
- Report & Dashboards
As always, our team is more than willing to assist, consult and guide you, if you have any questions simply reach out to the Big Bang Team.
Admin Preview
Dynamic Related Lists
It’s now possible to customize related lists and make them dynamic using filtering, sorting, and formulas. This is really helpful for reporting purposes. These lists can be added to a page thanks to the lightning app builder.
Picklist Value Management
Features to manage picklists have been developed with the purpose of increasing the admin’s productivity. It’s now possible to perform the following actions for multiple picklists values at the same time:
- Delete
- Deactivate
- Replace
Permission Management
Several improvements have been developed for permission management.
Permission set expiration: you can grant temporary access to your users so that the permission expires automatically after a specific predefined date.
Transaction security policy: As an admin, you can be notified or block any changes that don’t match your company’s compliance in terms of permissions assignment.
Flow Builder Enhancements
Send screen flows to Slack with an invocable action: Thanks to the integration between Slack and Salesforce, you can now send a message to Slack that includes a button to launch a flow in Salesforce
Formula entry condition: you can now use the formula builder to set conditions that will start a record trigger workflow.
Sales Cloud
Collaborative forecasting
This summer, Sales Cloud improved the way forecasts can be done by leveraging filters. Custom filters in forecast categories now support numeric and currency fields. It’s also possible to rename the forecast categories to better fit your business model.
Slack Integration
The way Slack and Sales Cloud are connected together is becoming more and more complete. The sales team can work faster and smarter. People can work on a Salesforce record directly from Slack. Moreover, the Sales Cloud for Slack app allows more automation regarding notifications
Service Cloud
Swarming
This feature helps agents to collaborate on a dedicated Slack channel in order to better resolve high severity cases. A dedicated related list of case objects can be leveraged to gather people with the necessary skills through a Slack channel where they will collaborate. As Slack and Salesforce are well integrated, workflows are out of the box and easy to configure.
Routing & Omni
With this feature, an agent can raise a flag to their supervisor and get their attention and chat with them or ask them to join the call to resolve the customer issue. Flows and bot builders can be leveraged to set up transfers from a bot to another bot, agent, queue, or skill.
Marketing
Attention: Pardot has been renamed as Marketing Cloud Account Engagement.
Completion Action
It is now possible to include conditions on completion actions. So the sets of prospects are meeting specific criterias.
Email bounce data
Initially, getting email bounced reports was a fastidious task. Based on a new out-of-the-box report, we can now retrieve all of the bounced email addresses from the past year for each email sent. All of this in one single report!
List Email Report Metrics
The release brought improvements in terms of insights regarding the list email report. Thanks to these improvements, prospect and mailing list management are more efficient. Four new fields will now appear in the report:
- Total Prospects on recipient lists
- Total suppressed Prospects
- Total unmailable Prospects
- Total duplicate Prospects
Commerce Cloud
Payment
The shopper can now use new payment methods like Klarna. This payment method allows shoppers to indicate that they will pay later but they can still place their order. Another new payment method is EPS, a popular one in Austria.
Order management
Order Management Basic Report Package: you can install a package that provides a report displaying insights regarding the following metrics:
- Orders and sales
- Fulfillment states
- Refunds
- Cancellations
- Discounts
Discounts: You can now apply a discount to an order at any stage during the fulfillment process
Report & Dashboards
Selected Object-Based report
This is not always easy to find the report type that you need to build your report. You can now select the different objects that you would like to use. Fortunately, it also includes custom objects. Once objects are selected, Salesforce will only display report types that include the selected objects. Note that this is a beta feature.
Median Summary
This one is straight forward but interesting to mention: median is now available as a summary field function
Salesforce Summer ‘22 Release Next Steps
Some features in the Summer ‘22 release apply to all users and immediately took effect when the release went live. Other features require direct action by an administrator before users can benefit from the new functionality. Talk to your administrator – and we’ll help you out.
For the detailed release notes: Salesforce Summer ’22 Release Notes.
You can also learn more with additional resources for the Salesforce Summer ’22 Release:
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- Visit Salesforce.com/releases
- Watch demo videos on the Salesforce Releases YouTube playlist
- Take the Release Highlights Trail in Trailhead
