Salesforce Spring ’18 Release Resources

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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.

Salesforce Resources

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:

  • More ways to build and customize pages with App Builder
  • Personalize Lightning Experience with themes
  • Automate and define your user experience with new Flow features

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!

Community Blog Posts

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!

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