Release 4 of 68 · October 2004
Salesforce Winter ’05 release notes
Divisions, assets, and granular object permissions
- Documented changes
- 117
- 42 more than Summer ’04
- AI-related
- 0
- 0% of the release
- In beta or pilot
- 0
- Retirements
- 0
What it brought
Profiles in Enterprise and Developer Editions got separate Read, Create, Edit and Delete permissions for each object in Winter '05, and delegated administration groups let admins hand off user management and custom object work without giving away the whole org. At 117 notes it is a large release, weighted toward customization. Very large orgs could have divisions enabled to segment records and scope search, list views and reports. Service teams got assets for tracking purchased products, and a solution category hierarchy browsable from the Self-Service portal. If you relied on the weekly export, its column order and headings changed, and record IDs went from 15 to 18 characters.
- Access control rewrite
- Per-object CRUD permissions on profiles
- For very large orgs
- Divisions segment and scope records
- New for service teams
- Assets track what a customer owns
- Integration gotcha
- Weekly export columns and headings changed
- Mostly polish
- 56 enhancements vs 46 new features
By capability
By product
Capabilities and change types are Jev’s categories; products come from Salesforce’s own headings. How the notes were categorized
Every note in Winter ’05
By product, in the order of the PDF. Each title links to its page in Salesforce’s release notes.
Sales Cloud15
- Workflow rules on assetsp. 2
- Competitor Asset checkboxp. 2
- Searching for assetsp. 2
- Deleting assetsp. 2
- Asset field on casesp. 2
- Cloning assetsp. 2
- Creating assets while creating a casep. 2
- Assetsp. 2
- Team calendar in day, week, and month viewsp. 36
- Private contact activities restricted in reportsp. 36
- Archived activities in export filesp. 36
- Activity list view scope optionsp. 36
- Last Modified Date/Time on activity list viewsp. 36
- Up to 20 custom activity fieldsp. 36
- Notes and attachments on productsp. 41
Service Cloud18
- Solution categoriesp. 20
- Solution Categories report typep. 20
- Uncategorized Solutions categoryp. 20
- Category browsing in the public knowledge base and Self-Service portalp. 20
- Defining solution categoriesp. 20
- Categorizing solutionsp. 20
- Enable Solution Browsing settingp. 20
- Notification on case commentp. 41
- Cases related list on opportunitiesp. 41
- Notify Default Case Owner for queuesp. 41
- Notify contact on case closep. 41
- Activity tracking on solutionsp. 41
- Spell check on case descriptionp. 41
- Workflow rules on solutionsp. 41
- 32KB Solution Details fieldp. 41
- Visible in Public Knowledge Base checkboxp. 41
- Self-Service username on merged contactsp. 41
- Deleting contacts that are Self-Service usersp. 41
Marketing Cloud3
Experience Cloud4
Analytics16
- Multiple values in a single filterp. 24
- AND, OR, and NOT report filtersp. 24
- Reports custom report typep. 24
- Up to ten report filter rowsp. 24
- Activity reports on custom objectsp. 36
- Standard activity report filtersp. 36
- Public Case Commented report fieldp. 36
- Filtering out group event invitationsp. 36
- Solution category reportsp. 36
- Cumulative Line Chartp. 36
- NEXT n DAYS and LAST n DAYS date filtersp. 36
- Picklist value lookup in report filtersp. 36
- Opportunity Pipeline Trend Reportp. 36
- Activated By in contract reportsp. 36
- Opportunity Trends report typep. 36
- Reports report typep. 36
Platform33
- Search layoutsp. 16
- Search layouts applied to duplicate lead resultsp. 16
- Search layouts override page layouts in lower editionsp. 16
- Long text area custom fieldsp. 18
- Long text area not available on activities and opportunity productsp. 18
- Converting text fields to long text areap. 18
- Lead conversion mapping into long text areasp. 18
- Configurable visible lines on long text areasp. 18
- Long text area fields indexed for advanced searchp. 18
- Up to 200 custom objectsp. 26
- Mail Merge and Send Email unavailable for custom object activitiesp. 26
- Custom object activities roll up to a master accountp. 26
- Open activities transferred with custom object ownershipp. 26
- Customizable standard auto-number fieldsp. 28
- Activity tracking on custom objectsp. 26
- Auto-number format changes apply only to new recordsp. 28
- Long text area fields in list views and reportsp. 18
- Divisionsp. 30
- Default division for a userp. 30
- Working divisionp. 30
- Creating and editing divisionsp. 30
- Divisions are not a security mechanismp. 30
- Mass Division Transferp. 30
- Division scoping of search, list views, reports, and record creationp. 30
- Replacing blank picklist valuesp. 38
- HTML area home page componentsp. 38
- Forecast category renamed Commitp. 38
- 255 characters of multi-select picklist values in lookupsp. 38
- Up to 20 custom activity fieldsp. 38
- Collapsible page sectionsp. 38
- Display customization in Personal Editionp. 38
- Up to 300 custom fields per record typep. 38
- Up to 20 custom fields on usersp. 38
Integration & APIs20
- sforce 5.0 Web Services APIp. 35
- Email address validation on importp. 39
- Updating currency codes via importp. 39
- Trigger Workflow Rules on importp. 39
- Importing multi-select picklist valuesp. 39
- 100 multi-select values per record on importp. 39
- Default values applied to unmapped fields on importp. 39
- Warning for new picklist values on importp. 39
- Lead owner notification option on importp. 39
- Translated picklist matching on importp. 39
- Translated field names in the import wizardsp. 39
- Increased storage limitsp. 39
- Weekly export covers more objectsp. 39
- Recycle Bin limited to 1000 records per userp. 39
- Weekly export column order and headings changedp. 39
- Full 32,000 characters into description fields on importp. 39
- Full 255 characters into URL fields on importp. 39
- 18-character record identifiers in exportsp. 39
- Archived activities in export filesp. 39
- Weekly export delivered as a zipped archivep. 39
Security & Identity8
- Granular access permissionsp. 8
- Permissions that automatically enable other permissionsp. 8
- Existing permissions preserved but renamedp. 8
- Delegated administration logged to the setup audit trailp. 13
- Delegated user administrationp. 13
- Delegated custom object administrationp. 13
- Delegated administration groupsp. 13
- Password hint answer cannot contain the passwordp. 41