Hints to Winter ‘07 release features in Dreamforce posting
I was looking at the write up describing the developer gathering that will be going on at Dreamforce in October and saw some interesting hints at what’s coming in the next Salesforce release–dubbed Winter ‘07.
Get your hands on a beta of the Winter ‘07 release to try out the latest features and technologies, and see the powerful impact that this new release will have on you and your applications.
Pretty standard marketing speak about how the next release will be super. But then there’s this:
(What’s New) The initial release of AppExchange gave you the ability to package up custom objects, S-controls, and other common customizations. This session will cover all the new capabilities we’ve added to packaging to support both publishing and sharing on the AppExchange Directory.
Awesome. The initial release of the Appexchange was great, but there are a million ways it could improve. Good to see they’re planning on some changes because the Summer ‘07 release had none.
And then check out this gem:
…and optimizing performance using the new functionality in SOQL combined with the new AppExchange AJAX toolkit
Improvements to SOQL would be awesome! All my friends want ORDER BY and joins. And a new AJAX toolkit–that is seriously exciting. AJAX beta 3.3 is an incredibly powerful toolkit I can’t wait to see the new one.
But this line was the biggest news:
This session provides advanced S-control development techniques that include inline or detail page hosted S-controls
I don’t know what they mean by inline S-controls, but S-controls on detail pages would be incredibly powerful. If you could pull up a Contact record and have an S-control fire and display right on the page, you could really do just about anything. What if you could use your own S-control instead of a related list? Or show stock quotes on each Account page? Or display all the relationships that a Contact has in a Flash visualization widget? Heck, you could even embed a wiki page on each Contact and Account record for storing large amounts of loosely structured data. Endless, endless possibilities if this is really coming.
Can’t wait for Dreamforce!
August 16th, 2006 at 12:01 am
See you down here, Steve!
August 16th, 2006 at 7:37 am
It will be nice to meet in the real world…
August 18th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
I think if you download the support entitlement app you’ll see the in-line s-control. one field renders three buttons. Also it’s a ‘hosted’ s-control therefore it’s maintained by Salesforce.
August 18th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
> If you could pull up a Contact record and have an S-control fire and display right on the page, you could really do just about anything.
Very interesting. Thanks for pointing this out, Steve.
August 18th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
Hey Fifedog, I’m pretty sure that’s just a formula field that creates 3 hyperlinks with button images. I use them all the time–Tucker MacLean showed me that trick a while back.
October 2nd, 2006 at 2:19 pm
As I understand you CAN embed it in the page layout.
Indeed if this is true, endless possibilities!
But looking at the new custom dashboards mashup stuff, looks you can embed in the page itself then?
October 2nd, 2006 at 2:33 pm
We’ll find out in a week!