The Salesforce Winter ’14 Release is coming up this month, but in case you haven’t had the time to read through all 309 pages of the release notes yet, we’ve put together our top picks for Communities (see our post on Service Cloud features as well).
Read on for our highlights!
Communities
Here’s our pick of the top features we can look forward to in October,
- Community Moderators
Admins are now able to identify specific users as Community Moderators. These users will be able to review flagged posts and files for their communities. A valuable feature that will let the people who care most moderate their own communities.
- Use Site.com Pages For Standard/Custom Tabs
It’s now even easier to bring Site.com pages into a community. In Summer 13 – you needed to create a custom web tab and iFrame in your pages. With Winter 14 you’ll have a native solution that can be setup with no hassle. You can even override a standard tab to show a Site.com page.
- New Communities Widgets
Site.com will now have two new widgets that allow you to add Chatter Feeds to pages you are displaying inside of a community. This brings us one step closer to being able to use Site.com for all of our branding/UI needs within a community.
- Improved API Support
Anything you build for community now supports access to SOAP/REST API’s, the AJAX Toolkit, the Streaming API, and the Chatter REST API for Communities Moderation. When you do need to go custom you’ll have the full power of these API’s available.
- Group Email Digests for Communities
Community members in groups can now get the same type of email digest that internal users receive about chatter traffic for their groups.
Another exciting release for Communities – let us know what you think or tell us about your favorite Winter ’14 features below.
