What happens at a Salesforce Global Gathering?

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Fresh from Dreamforce 2017, Talent Hub attended the Sydney Dreamforce Global Gathering ’17 last week for a great evening full of smiles, swag, and all things Salesforce!

 

What did the gathering involve?

 

There were a host of insightful presentations, which collectively gave those who couldn’t make it to San Francisco, a summary of the highlights. For those who had recently returned, it was a chance to reflect and reconnect with the Sydney Salesforce community.

 

The agenda covered:

 

Natalie Savell: The Dreamforce Experience

Vincent Cotte: The Fourth Revolution

Megan Petersen: myTrailhead

Steven Herod: Lightning App Builder

Adam Sellers: myIoT

 

Vincent and Megan

Vincent and Megan

Natalie Savell: The Dreamforce Experience

 

Natalie Savell gave some invaluable insight, having recently attended her fourth Dreamforce conference, each time with a completely different goal in mind. Having spoken at Dreamforce herself previously, this time her team has benefited from attending and connecting with key people as her project has gone into build stage.

 

Natalie Savell

Natalie Savell

Vincent Cotte: The Fourth Revolution

 

The Fourth Revolution

The Fourth Revolution

Trailblazers

Trailblazers

Steven Herod: Lightning App Builder

 

Steven Herod

Steven Herod

Having recently explored Lightning with our own internal Salesforce system, Talent Hub was particularly interested in Steven Herod’s presentation on Lightning App Builder. He explained the key differences in the new release, and what he was most excited about:

 

Lightning App Builder

Lightning App Builder

  • You can move components around and toggle them in ways that you’ve never been able to do before.
  • You can use the standard components which Salesforce gives you, and which are growing all the time. Your developer can also build custom components, which are now little blocks instead of replacing the entire page. These blocks perform a discreet piece of functionality, and the administrator can move them into position on the page.
  • One of the great things that’s come in the latest release, is that you can drive the appearance of these components based on the data and the page. i.e. criteria to decide whether they should display it or not. You never want a component to appear only when an opportunity is in a certain stage, and you can now do that. All your pages appear in tablet, Lightning desktop and mobile.
  • Apps in Salesforce now allow you to brand, with navigation styles. You get to define pages per application. And it’s upgradeable. The first thing is the custom console. Custom console brings this kind of high volume, data visibility into normal Lightning. When you define an App, you can make it either a console App, or a normal App. The main difference is that in a console App, rather than having a separate page every time you transition between records, your records load up in tabs. If you’re in a high-volume data environment i.e. call centre, inside sales or even you’re just really busy, you will find that this layout is much more effective for moving around your data inside Salesforce.
  • The second idea is a utility bar, so along the bottom of your Salesforce user interface there’s going to be a series of widgets that can expand. In there you can put in additional components. If you need something available on every single page, you’ve got an option there for an additional thing. So maybe a utility that you always use, like a quotation tool, or some kind of quick calculator. These kinds of concepts can pop up from inside the utility bar.
  • Another thing that’s interesting is the concept of a Lightning page per App. We know that you used to be able to limit Apps by profile or permissions set. It used to be able to create page layouts by a profile of a record type. Now you can create a layout from a page specifically for an application. That way, users who switch applications get to see different visibility of what a record or an account looks like. This App doing this thing, my contacts look like this. I move to this other App, now they look like something else. The amount of flexibility you get in this now is quite profound. The fact that you can take customisations to a little box on the right-hand side, and keep everything else standard, and make it a natural part of the user interaction is really important. Some of the other changes that are happening for Developers behind the scenes, or also allowing you to build this kind of components with a lot less code.

 

Simon Gascoigne

Simon Gascoigne

Megan Petersen: myTrailhead

Having recently launched our Trailhead Tuesday initiative, we were also very interested in the presentation that Megan Petersen gave on myTrailhead. As huge supporters of Trailhead ourselves, we were blown away by how customisable the platform will now be, and a big opportunity for companies to onboard their new hires more effectively. This is a subject close to our hearts, as Recruiters, and as the onboarding process is so closely correlated to the success and engagement of new hires, we believe that this tool will enable organisations to create structure in a gamified environment.

 

myTrailhead

myTrailhead

Ranger Megan

Ranger Megan

 

Adam Sellers: myIoT

 

Adam Sellers

Adam Sellers

 

We were spoilt with gifts of Dreamforce swag, Trailblazer mugs and comfy socks!

 

Socks to Trailblaze in!

Socks to Trailblaze in!

Salesforce Swag

Salesforce Swag

 

Thank you for a brilliant Sydney Dreamforce Global Gathering guys, we can’t wait for next year!

 

Sydney Salesforce User Groups are holding the Sydney Salesforce Community Groups EOY Celebration, which is proudly sponsored by Talent Hub on December 5th at Cruise Bar. If you’d like to join in with the Ohana celebration, details can be found here.

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