Summer 11 Features

Hi,

I want to share some new enactments and feature thats coming our way in picked from summer 11 release notes.

1) Package Upload Monitoring
Available in: All Editions

As of Summer ’11, ISVs can now track package uploads directly and view any failures during the upload process. Email notification is no longer required.There are new tabs to navigate to the package detail page and new real-time upload indicators
on the package and package version pages. You can follow an upload step by step, including individual Apex test runs.

2)Half-Up Rounding for All Numeric Fields
Available in: All Editions

As of Summer '11, all numeric fields use the round half up tie-breaking rule. For example, 12.345 becomes 12.35 and −12.345
becomes −12.35.


3)Limit Updates for Fields on Custom Objects, Sharing Rules, and Rich Text Area and Long Text Area Fields
Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions

In Summer '11, the limit for the maximum number of fields on a custom object has been raised from 500 to 800 fields per object in Unlimited Edition. The total number of sharing rules per object increases from 100 to 300 in Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Developer and Database.com Editions.There are no longer limits to the number of rich text area and long text area fields that an object can contain, although your Edition's limit for the total number of custom fields allowed on an object, regardless of field type, still applies. Now, each object can contain a total of 1.6 million characters across long text area and rich text area fields. The default character limit for long text area and rich text area fields is 32,000 characters. A long text area or rich text area field needs to contain at least 256 characters. This update is for all Editions except Database.com


4)Quick Find Available in Setup
Available in: All Editions

In Summer '11, the sidebar in setup includes a search box for browsing and quickly finding setup tools. In the left pane of any setup page, you can:
• Type the first few characters of a setting name in the Quick Find box. As you type, items that match your search terms appear in the menu. Click an item in the list to go to its setup page. For example, to quickly find the user profiles page, type prof in the Quick Find box.
• Click Expand All to open all setup menus. If you have typed anything in the Quick Find box, only the menus with matching items are expanded.

Regards

Summer 11 Field Sets

Hi All,

Dynamic binding has been one of the most popular new feature in Salesforce Spring 11 release. In summer 11 Field Sets configuration have a different UI then earlier and has attributes associated with it. Ealier configuration was done using there different Boxes now it is like page layout editor where fields can be drag and drop.

 This is how field set configuration screen looks. Configuring it similar to configuring page layouts.

In Summer '11 Some more additional properties are also included in Field Sets now.

1)Required : In the field set it can be mentioned then when this field will be rendered on any Visualforce page it will be required. Again doing it similar like we make any field required in page layouts. Click to properties for any field in "In the Field Set",  there you will see a Check Box field "Required",  set this to true and click Ok and save this field set.

2)You can span a field into a field set that references multiple objects. The total number of cross object spans within the In the Field Set is 25.

Idea for future release :
Blank Space Option for Field Set Editor
Please promote if you feel it will be good addition.

Regards