• Detect Text in an Image with Einstein OCR (Generally Available)
  Get optical character recognition (OCR) models that detect alphanumeric text in an image with Einstein OCR. Access the models from a single REST API endpoint. Each model has specific use cases, such as business card scanning, product lookup, and digitizing documents and tables.

Attach .csv Files to Report Subscriptions (Beta)

When people subscribe to a report, a new option lets them choose to receive results as a .csv file attached to the subscription email. The email itself includes the report name in the subject line, but there is no email body. Row-level record details are included in the attached .csv file instead. And small changes to the Edit Subscription menu design include a new Attach File button and a refined layout.

In Setup, from Reports and Dashboards Settings, select Let users attach reports as files to report subscription emails in Lightning Experience, and save your changes.

To attach files to a report subscription, subscribe to a report, click Attach File, choose Details Only. The attachment format is Comma Delimited .csv by default. Optionally change encoding or keep the default, and save your changes. The edit subscription dialog shows that the subscription includes an attachment. Finish setting other subscription criteria, such as frequency, and click Save.

Speed Up Org Maintenance with the Optimizer App

No need to install a package, just enable the app, click to run, and sit back while we inspect your org. Quickly identify issues that require immediate attention by using the sortable results list view. Read through the Salesforce recommendations to plan next steps. Use quick links on result pages to go directly to the applicable Setup page. Previously, you could only consume Optimizer content by scrolling through an English language report delivered as a PDF file.

How: From Setup in Lightning Experience, enter Optimizer in the Quick Find box, then select Optimizer.

From the list view, it’s a click away from the full results (1) and recommendations (2) and the Setup page to make any changes (3) for over 40 features analyzed as part of the Optimizer.

Critical Update App New Version

Review Important Org Changes with Release Updates (Beta).

Understand and act on updates that impact your Salesforce org using an improved user interface. View your updates and alerts information in a single, easy-to-use page.

From Setup, type Release Updates in Quick Find. The release updates page has four tabs: Needs Action, Due Soon, Overdue, and Steps Completed. The page view defaults to Needs Action. From this tab, select a release update to review. You can:

1. Check the Complete Steps By date; testing may not be supported after this date.
2. View in which release an update is automatically enforced. For specific dates, go to https://status.salesforce.com/ and check information about your instance.
3. Learn more about an update, including the impact you can expect it to have on your org, by clicking View Details.
4. Start or stop a test run, and view step update history by clicking Get Started.
5. Proceed with the update steps and confirm when you finish them.

Push Notification Limits Have Increased

Where: This change applies to the Field Service mobile app in Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer editions.

Debug More Flows Faster

In Flow Builder, use rollback mode and let it save you the hassle. You can now use the debug option in Flow Builder for schedule-triggered flows. And the debug option includes the Lookup screen component so that you can set record variables more easily.  For example, a flow updates a child record that causes an Apex trigger to fire and to update the parent record. The update to the parent record is also rolled back.

How: To use rollback mode when you debug an autolaunched flow, click Enable rollback mode.

Create and Edit Flows More Easily with the Improved New Flow Window and Start Element

Previously, to select the trigger type for a flow, you double-clicked the Start element. This design made it difficult to discover flow triggers. And errors were possible when you added other elements to the canvas before you configured the trigger, when that trigger didn’t support those elements.

How: Create a flow. Choose the flow type and click Create. For record-changed, scheduled, and platform event flows, the Start element includes other configuration options. For example, for scheduled flows, the Start element provides options for setting a schedule and choosing an object.

Click Show Advanced in the Save as or Save the flow window. Select a different trigger type or flow type in the Type dropdown. If you change the trigger type for your flow, save it as a new flow.

Aura Components in the ui Namespace Are Being Deprecated

When: Salesforce plans to end support for Aura components in the ui namespace on May 1, 2021. You can continue to use these components beyond May 1, 2021, but we won’t accept support cases for them after that date.

Please refer to the list of the components being deprecated here.

Check User Permissions for Lightning Web Components

Customize a component’s behavior based on whether the current user has a specific permission. To check a user’s permission assignment, import Salesforce permissions from the @salesforce/userPermission and @salesforce/customPermission scoped modules.

How: To check whether a user has a permission, import a static reference to the permission and evaluate whether it’s true or false.

import hasPermission from '@salesforce/userPermission/PermissionName';

Custom permissions can include a namespace. Orgs use namespaces as unique identifiers for their own customization and packages. If the custom permission has a namespace, you must prepend the namespace followed by __ to the permission name.

import hasPermission from '@salesforce/customPermission/PermissionName';
import hasPermission from '@salesforce/customPermission/namespace__PermissionName';