Salesforce.com features lined up for Spring ‘07
I was lamenting that I don’t have access to the Campaign Source field on my Opportunity reports (the field is on the object, but I can’t select it in the reporting interface…) and I thought to look on IdeaExchange to see if there were any plans for improving reporting soon.
I came up with this helpful URL, which is just a search for everything that the Salesforce.com folks have flagged as features that will be in the Spring ‘07 release. You can’t subscribe to the search results in RSS, but I’ll be coming back to this URL to see if features get added in the next month or so.
Oh, and if any Salesforce.com folks are reading, I’ve had a number of occasions where I don’t know why you’ve left fields off the available fields on a report set. I’d love to have those fields added, or have a way that I could create report sets that my users could then generate reports against.
February 5th, 2007 at 12:33 am
The feature you are are looking for in the “I want to set up the report wizard differently for users” is called the “Custom Report Types”… idea http://ideas.salesforce.com/article/show/22239
This is designed to let people set up the list of fields they want, from the linked objects they want (with some restrictions). It isn’t scheduled for Sprint 07, but is something that is under active consideration for a future release. We’d talked about this feature at dreamforce (at the “Analytics - meet the PM” session).
There was one set of fields improved in Winter ‘07 - on the User report (on for Administrators). This brought all the fields on the interface into the report type.
When looking at the list, you should look for ideas that have the text “(Coming in Spring ‘07)” in the title. This search is picking up some ideas that aren’t part of Sprint 07, but where people have asked for it to be in the comments (the last 2 when I looked).
February 5th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Hey Steve -
Nice find!
Looks like there’s a URL now: http://ideas.salesforce.com/popular/coming_in_spring_07
and, with RSS support for the Spring ‘07 features:
http://ideas.salesforce.com/xml/rss?tags_string=coming_in_spring_07&menu_string=hot
- Mark
February 6th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Thanks Thomas, I would love to see this feature! Maybe in Spring ‘07 the Campaign Source fields on Opportunity could be added to the Opportunity report sets? Seems like an easier change…
February 6th, 2007 at 10:34 am
thanks Mark for the better links.