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knichols3535 In case you missed it!
Summer '13 has a long awaited feature of mine - Cross-Object Owner Formulas. As a developer, I can't count the number of times that I have written a trigger on objects for clients to populate a custom user lookup so they could use it in formula fields. Almost every sObject has the owner field but it's polymorphic, meaning it can point to a queue or user. This presented Salesforce.com with a problem in their data model using formulas. For instance, if Salesforce.com allowed you to reference Owner.FirstName and the owner was a queue, you would receive a runtime exception. Now there is native support for using cross-object formulas for all Owner fields. The syntax is slightly different than normal. For instance, the syntax to show a custom field from the User object would be Owner:User.MyCustomField__c. You can also determine if the record is owned by a queue in a validation rule ISBLANK(Owner:User.Id).
What new features are you excited about in the upcoming release?
Actually, I did miss that! I am going to be able to remove/reduce a number of triggers. Thanks for that.
Got to check out Workflows as well.
I know, it's a great feature without much in the docs!
Great.
There are 90 features are added in this summer'13 release
https://na1.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/salesforce_summer13_release_notes.pdf
Yes that is great!!
I have actually written a trigger for similar requirement.
Thanks to Salesforce, triggers wont be required anymore. :)
Talking about new feature related to formula, have you noticed that now we can have formula return type as CHECKBOX :)
Well done Salesforce! :)
I have covered it up