Release 27 of 68 · February 2013 · API 27.0
Salesforce Spring ’13 release notes
Connected Apps and the Tooling API
- Documented changes
- 136
- 84 fewer than Winter ’13
- AI-related
- 0
- 0% of the release
- In beta or pilot
- 27
- Retirements
- 4
What it brought
Connected Apps became generally available in Spring '13, giving admins explicit control over which external applications may authenticate through OAuth 2.0 and what security policies apply to them. The Tooling API shipped at version 27.0 with SOAP and REST interfaces for building custom Force.com development tools, and platform work makes up 55 of the 136 notes. Salesforce Touch went beyond the Sales app to all standard and custom apps, with dashboards, cases and leads, and Visualforce tabs in the mobile browser app. Admins got beta state and country picklists based on ISO-3166 values. Salesforce also stopped selling the older Salesforce Platform user licenses to new customers.
- OAuth gets governance
- Connected Apps generally available
- Tooling for tool builders
- Tooling API at version 27.0
- Cleaner addresses, in beta
- State and country picklists
- No longer sold
- Older Salesforce Platform user licenses
- Still in flight
- 17 pilots and 10 betas among 136 notes
By capability
By product
Capabilities and change types are Jev’s categories; products come from Salesforce’s own headings. How the notes were categorized
Retirements and deprecations
Every note in Spring ’13
By product, in the order of the PDF. Each title links to its page in Salesforce’s release notes.
Sales Cloud13
- Forecast Using Partner Opportunitiesp. 46
- Improved Forecasts Column Data Visibilityp. 47
- Quarterly Forecasting Now Availablep. 45
- Progressive Display In Forecasts Settingsp. 48
- Select Which Items or Quotas to View in Forecasting Reportsp. 47
- New Controls for Sending Emailp. 52
- Sender ID Compliance Not Automatically Enabledp. 52
- Create Workflow Rules for Opportunity Teamsp. 53
- Track Contract History for all Statusesp. 54
- Add a Single Contact to a Shared Activityp. 53
- Salesforce for Outlookp. 48
- Display Content Packs for Salesforce CRM Contentp. 54
- Use Formula Fields to Access Person Account Contact Fieldsp. 54
Service Cloud5
Experience Cloud8
Chatter & Collaboration27
- Tasks Now Appear in Record Feeds (Chatter Tasks)p. 26
- New Preview Linksp. 29
- Public Groups Postp. 28
- Searching in Group Feedsp. 28
- Create Tasks Faster—Beta (Chatter Tasks)p. 27
- Email Replies to Like Posts and Commentsp. 29
- More Feed Items in Digestp. 30
- User Status Removed from Chat Historyp. 31
- Enhanced People Listp. 30
- Chatter Desktop Version 3.2p. 30
- Feed Search Label Changep. 31
- Smaller Chatter Messenger When Minimizedp. 31
- New and Changed Response Bodiesp. 34
- New and Changed Request Bodiesp. 36
- New and Changed Classesp. 38
- New and Changed Resourcesp. 33
- New and Changed Output Classesp. 39
- Connect in Apex General Updatesp. 37
- New and Changed Enumsp. 40
- Enabling and Disabling Feed Item Generation for New Tasksp. 42
- Viewing Tasks in a Feedp. 42
- General Updatesp. 32
- Enabling and Disabling the Task Publisher—Betap. 44
- Considerations for Using the Task Publisherp. 45
- Considerations for Task Item Generation in Record Feedsp. 42
- Creating a Task in a Feed—Betap. 44
- Chatter Answers for Developersp. 55
Mobile11
- Salesforce Touch Enhancements in this Releasep. 66
- Help for Mobile Productsp. 63
- Salesforce Touch Requirementsp. 67
- Setting Up Salesforce Touchp. 68
- Accessing Salesforce Touchp. 69
- Using Salesforce Touchp. 69
- Salesforce Mobile SDKp. 73
- Shared Activities in Salesforce Mobilep. 73
- Differences from the Full Salesforce Sitep. 69
- Chatter for Android – Version 2.6 Generally Availablep. 74
- Chatter for iPhone and iPad – Version 2.5 Generally Availablep. 74
Analytics3
Data Cloud / Data 3607
- Data.com Administratorp. 78
- Data.com Product Suite Overviewp. 76
- Understanding Data.com Clean Matching Servicesp. 82
- Expanded Global Account Data from D&B (available the weekend of February 8, 2013)p. 78
- D&B Companies Overviewp. 87
- Selecting a Data.com Clean Matching Service for Account Records—Betap. 82
- Data.com Clean Userp. 83
Platform55
- Invalid URLs Blockedp. 93
- HTML Markup Escaped in Page Layout Custom Section Namesp. 94
- Single View State Enhancementp. 94
- Editing a Connected Appp. 96
- Connected Apps Overviewp. 95
- Visualforce PDF Rendering Engine Improvementsp. 94
- Installing a Connected Appp. 96
- Upgrading a Connected Appp. 97
- Monitoring Usage for a Connected Appp. 97
- Force.com Canvas Limitsp. 98
- Changes to Platform App Licensesp. 97
- Force.com Canvas SDK Versioningp. 99
- Support for Internet Explorer Version 8p. 100
- Canvas App Previewer Enhancementsp. 100
- Clickable Column Headers in Search Resultsp. 104
- Trialforce Signup using API—Pilotp. 103
- Expose a Canvas App on a Visualforce Pagep. 101
- Show My Current Logs Only and Show My Current Heap Dumps Onlyp. 107
- New Progress Tabp. 107
- Accessing SharePoint Data via Sunlight Search — Pilotp. 105
- Change in Global Search URLp. 104
- Auto-Save on Lookup Searches for Exact Matchesp. 104
- liveAgent:clientChatAlertMessage and liveAgent:clientChatStatusMessage Componentsp. 109
- New Label Attribute on Live Agent Componentsp. 109
- Dependent Picklists Require Controlling Field on the Pagep. 109
- Force.com IDE Enhancementsp. 108
- Custom Component Descriptions are Escapedp. 110
- Visualforce Support in Salesforce Touchp. 111
- New UserInfo Methodsp. 114
- Connect in Apex—Developer Previewp. 115
- Compile-Time Checking for Custom Component Attribute Namesp. 110
- TimeZone Methodsp. 113
- Cases Classp. 112
- Triggers for CollaborationGroup and CollaborationGroupMemberp. 115
- Tests Started from the Apex Classes Page Run Asynchronouslyp. 117
- Escaped Error Messages for addErrorp. 118
- Developer Console Button and Link Addedp. 107
- Setting Id Fields on sObjects for Updatesp. 116
- Chatter API Objectsp. 120
- SOSL Support for Hidden Fields in Communitiesp. 121
- New WITH Clause in SOSL to Filter by Community IDp. 121
- New UPDATE Clauses in SOSL and SOQL to Report on Salesforce Knowledge Article Searches and Views — Pilotp. 121
- Search Scope and Orderp. 123
- SOAP APIp. 122
- Tooling API — Generally Availablep. 122
- Metadata APIp. 123
- Bulk APIp. 127
- State and Country Picklists—Betap. 128
- Streaming APIp. 127
- Login History for New Browsers and Platformsp. 129
- Field History Tracking Deletionp. 130
- Sandbox Email Deliverability Defaultp. 130
- Record Type Available as a Cross-Object Referencep. 130
- Restoring Deleted Custom Object Recordsp. 130
- Irish (Ireland) Help for Supported Localesp. 129
Security & Identity2
- Granting Access to User Records—Pilotp. 105
- Securityp. 106