The Spring ’18 release is just around the corner, and we want to make sure you have all the resources you need to be prepared! Here is a compilation of important dates, links, resources and awesome community blog posts for you to explore.
Important Dates
Spring ’18 Admin Preview Live, 1/19/2018
The Spring ‘18 release is packed with powerful features that will help you build faster with both clicks and code. In this live broadcast, Salesforce Admin Evangelist LeeAnne Rimel and product experts will walk you through our favorite new features in the Spring ‘18 release spanning Lightning customization and personalization, flow updates and more. Register!
Some topics we’ll cover:
Speakers:
Trailblazer Community
Join the community to ask questions and get help. If you’re new, don’t hesitate to ask your questions, you’ll quickly get answers and bonus: make new friends! Join the Release Readiness Collaboration group to ask questions and get information specifically about the upcoming release.
Release Notes
There’s a whole website dedicated to the release notes. Each time there’s a new release, there’s a new drop-down. ?
There are also lots of helpful resources on the release readiness site.
Sandbox Preview
If you want to get hands-on with any of the release features before they hit your production org, you can do that in a preview instance of your Sandbox. Here’s a helpful post with more info: Salesforce Spring ’18 Sandbox Preview Instructions
Being Release Ready
Here are 2 posts about release readiness strategies and tactics that are helpful every release!
The community always has fantastic insight into release features that are awesome for Salesforce Admins. Here’s a selection of posts from the community about the Spring ’18 release:
If you have written a post about the release, or know of another community post that would be helpful to other #AwesomeAdmins, please comment below and I will update this post!
Picture this: It’s release week. You’re prepping your orgs, coordinating with your stakeholders, and keeping a close eye on maintenance windows. Suddenly, your inbox is flooded with status alerts. You pause everything to sift through them, manually cross-referencing your specific instance names against hundreds of global updates, only to realize that none of those alerts […]
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