Comments on: Salesforce.com Summer ’08 Release Notes

By: Salesforce.com Summer 2008 release notes reviewed | Salesforce Times

Salesforce.com Summer 2008 release notes reviewed | Salesforce Times — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:23:41 +0000

[...] Steve Anderson of Gokubi blog fame, recently posted a good commentary on the Summer 2008 version release notes. Check it out here. [...]

By: Salesforce.com Summer08 Release Notes - Review | Kao Consulting Inc. (KCI) | SaaS product management, product marketing, and Salesforce.com experts

Sat, 10 May 2008 23:31:52 +0000

[...] again go to gokubi for reviewing the Summer ‘08 Release Notes and providing some quick commentary. When I saw the blurb about Multiday Events for the calendar, I [...]

By: David

David — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:25:39 +0000

Thanks for the update re: No Joy for filtering Accounts by record-type.

Oh well.

By: Matthew Scholtz

Matthew Scholtz — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:08:13 +0000

Kyle: yes, according to what I read in the docs. Although there are limits to how many “hops” you can make in a single object’s formula fields.

Steve: I think I saw it stated that the join object will support rollups in both directions.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:34:55 +0000

Steve,

I was interested by one line on the Cross-Object Formulas Documentation:
“even across multiple levels”. Does this mean if I have the following (chained by lookups only) A -> B -> C-> D that I can create a formula field in D that exposes fields from it’s great-grandparent A?

If so I think I’ll jump for joy!

By: David

David — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:04:28 +0000

Filtered lookups – if we can hard-code which subset that lookup field could take (such as a given record type) then perhaps Person Accounts would become more useful for the NonProfit template.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:37:23 +0000

Great summary Steve!

And yes, page layouts in the Meteadata API is great! I’m excited about Filtered Lookups and related list in-line editing! Hopefully this will be big usability increases for our clients.

By: Kathy Dunne

Kathy Dunne — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:37:44 +0000

Layouts via the metadata API — YIPPEE! That made my day. Thanks for writing this up!