Top 10 Posts of 2023: Salesforce Developer Edition
By Andrew Cook
December 22, 2023
As another year passes in the Salesforce ecosystem, it’s time to look back at some of our most popular developer articles of 2023.
It comes as no surprise that the topic of the brand new Einstein 1 has been a significant talking point alongside some fundamental developer concepts that all professionals should get on top of…
10. Salesforce AI-Powered Code Builder Now Generally Available
Starting us off is the announcement of Salesforce Code Builder becoming generally available. This post covers what Code Builder is, what you can do with Code Builder, how to install it, Einstein for Developers, the required editions, and the differences between the beta version and the GA version.
Number 9 is the 10 New Salesforce Flow Features in Summer ‘23. Spring ‘23 was a big update for flow, which is recognised in this post. We go through the various UI changes, user permission changes, reactive components (betA), choice lookups, and Data Cloud object support – just some of the awesome enhancements made for this update.
Number 8 brings the only infographic on the list! This post not only includes the awesome infographic below, but details a complete breakdown of Flow Builder including the types of flows, elements, interaction, and resources.
7. Hottest Salesforce Summer ’23 Features For Developers
In at 7th is the 10 Hottest Salesforce Summer ’23 Features For Developers. As the name suggests this was all about the updates developers would find useful in the Summer ‘23 release. We covered various features including quickly creating full sandboxes on Hyperforce, the introduction of Scale Center, the ability to opt-in for event log file generation, the retirement of Asynchronous SOQL, and the ability to transfer package ownership to a different Dev Hub.
At number 6 is another release post, this time 10 New Salesforce Flow Features in Winter ’24. This post covers some cool features in flow such as custom errors, the ability to save a flow without configuring certain elements, the introduction of the transform component, filtration in the flow trigger explorer, and HTTP callout methods becoming generally available, just to name a few.
5. Breaking News: Salesforce Announce Einstein 1 and Copilot
Number 5 was a huge announcement at Dreamforce; the introduction of the Einstein 1 platform and Copilot. This post explains what Einstein 1 is, including Prompt Builder, Skills Builder, and Model Builder. It also goes through Copilot in the eyes of an end user and an admin.
Number 4 is a post all about the Salesforce inspector tool; a Chrome extension that is a massive time saver for admins and power users alike. In this post, we go through 10 ways to make use of this tool including searching and filtering, querying and exporting, editing fields and error handling, and inserting, updating, or deleting records.
3. Salesforce Release 5x Free Integration User Licenses
Number 3 was an announcement that had many people smiling; 5 free integration user licenses! This post explains how to make use of these licenses, and the advantages of using these new API only licenses.
Number 2 proves it’s not just the shiny new things that people have enjoyed. Our post on SOQL queries and limits goes through the anatomy of a query, relational queries, aggregate queries, and limits and limitations.
1. Breaking News: Salesforce Einstein GPT Officially Announced
Coming in at number 1 is the newest and shiniest feature around at the moment; Einstein GPT. In this post, we cover what Einstein GPT is, and how it can be leveraged by Sales, Service, Marketing, Developers, and even Slack!
For each content that we publish at SF Ben, we place a prediction on the number of views it will receive in the first week. The content below exceeded our forecasted expectations by at least 250% – so they deserve a mention!