Still Coming - Episode #273 of CloudFocus Weekly

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00:10 Jason Atwood: This is the 273rd episode of CropFoast Weekly for the last week of September 2017. This episode is titled, Still Coming. CropFoast Weekly is brought to you by Arkus. And we are hiring. If you are a Salesforce consultant or administrator and want to be part of a unique and growing company, send your resume to careers at arkaseinc.com. I'm your host, Jason Allen. Join me, co-host, Double Speed, Justin. I don't see you. Justin, how are you doing?

Justin Edelstein: Great. This is very exciting for me. Very, because you are actually doing the recording. I'm on sound booth. I'm a producer this time. I'm super excited. So you're less useless today. I'm more useful., less useless?

Jason Atwood: I don't know. So we don't have a lot of time today. Coupled notes, just fun notes. One is, this is the last recording from the studio ever. This studio is being shut down. Being shut down. You're moving out of it. By the health department. For good reason. At least you said it. At least you said it, I didn't have to say it. So that's kind of fun. And. And you're recording because apparently an upgrade to Mac OS High Sierra has Fubar'd my garage band and I couldn't figure out the new garage band quick enough. So there you have that. I don't know how I'm gonna do that, but whatever. We'll figure it out. This might come out next year. So we're gonna do a quick little about podcast here. Probably like, you know, it's a quick one.

Jason Atwood: It's a quickie. 10, 15 minutes maybe tops. 80 max. Let's talk about our two blog posts of De Week. Sure. First of De one that we demised. Yeah we missed this one. Well a loyal listener and blogger came to us and apparently was a little miffed that we didn't talk about his first.

Justin Edelstein: Yeah he was miffed. So we're gonna skip it again. Mostly miffed yeah. I mean mostly miffed at you because I blamed you but oh that's true So we can go backwards in time. And I guess it was during a lot of the winter stuff. That's why. It was pre. Yeah. I think it came out the same week as some of the winter stuff. So it got a little pushed to the background. But we'll bring it to the foreground now.

Jason Atwood: Salesforce Trailhead 101 for nonprofit organizations by Mr. Ryan. the hit man boil. So maybe if I made everybody have a that's the other thing I can do. Yeah, that's the jazz hands. Next time. By the way, the mood meter today has Justin in a positive mood.

Justin Edelstein: All right. So Ryan gave an overview of he really took a deep dive into.

Jason Atwood: Trailhead and how trailhead from sinkhole trailhead.

Justin Edelstein: It's a thing It's gonna be huge so he went into a little deep dive and Into trailhead and gave some of the essentials for nonprofit organizations that are out there that are either Struggling using Salesforce just getting started using Salesforce Hired somebody to run their sales force and want to get them up to speed Here's a good way to do it. It's understood that it's a bit of an overwhelming task to take on the administration of any new software, Salesforce included, that just gets thrown in your lap. Common theme in the last couple days. Just gets thrown in your lap. You know, Trailheads there to help you out. So Ryan gave we call him Boyle. Well, whatever he gave, whatever his name is, gave the hit man gave for a trail.

03:50 Jason Atwood: He's the hits. He get it. He plays the hits. Yeah. He plays the hits. He's the hit man.

Justin Edelstein: He gave top 40, top four trails.

Jason Atwood: He's just not going with my... No, I don't like it.

Justin Edelstein: So anyway, there's quite literally hundreds of trails, but he gave four that he thought were essential for becoming a successful user of Salesforce at a nonprofit.

Jason Atwood: So I have a little side trailhead thing. I have been trying to push people, clients to trailhead.

Justin Edelstein: I find this is Brian wrote, I didn't say his name, but whatever, that we wrote and the hit man wrote and there's some links on there to these things called trails and he explains what they are and you'll get a good sense of what it is that you're about to do and then you can just link right up right out to them from the blog post and they were actually very pleased.

Jason Atwood: They said thank you that was really helpful. Oh good, it's good. Well it's it's it's not a good it's nice topic logmaster must've approved of it.. there's no such thing that there's no such thing yet whoo stay tuned stay tuned ladies and gentlemen.. so good to go out to blog that i think dot com and read it not even gonna tell you what they are no there's four of them I've taken them all They're good.

Justin Edelstein: Where are you badge wise now? What you at? What's your badge count? I'm in the 30s because I'm in the midst of the lightning rollout specialist super badge. I'm halfway through it. There's 10 trails in it. I've done five. And there were four prereqs, so I had to do some of those too. So I'm in the mid 30s. And yeah, there's some real work to do in that super badge. I think super badges are great because that's a good level. Where are you? The only thing is like if you're just like, well, I guess it's just like Salesforce. You just Google something and you can find if you get stuck, you can find how to figure it out. But that's like anything in Salesforce. Except for cert. You can't Google the cert. You can't Google cert answers.

Justin Edelstein: Those they actually like find and take down. really I've seen that yeah it's like I've seen that kind of thing I've seen it like people ask it in answers and I've seen a salesforce person come in and be like this looks like a question from a cert no answer for you and just like shut the answer down no answer for you anyway let's move on to winter 18 Lightning Report Builder yeah Daniel Webster Daniel

07:20 Jason Atwood: The so he attacked the, I think one of the bigger features coming in winter 18 which is the new report builder the lightning report builder so if you've been in lightning, you know one of the things is, you go back to you go back to your You go to the reports and then you click new report and it goes and throws you back inside of Lightning but in the classic interface. Not the greatest experience. Slightly jarring. It is slightly jarring and report building looks very old at this point. Boy, the UI and all that look very different. Even like looks old for Salesforce, it looks as old as old can be.

Justin Edelstein: This is the, this is like the new interface. Yeah. Dragon drop one versus the,

Jason Atwood: Before. Oh, analytics edition. Didn't we all purchase analytics? Everyone purchased analytics edition. $35 per user per month. Just buy it. Why wouldn't I buy it? Of course. So stupid. so many things. It is so funny. I bought every product. I feel like that's my entire job is just to be the. Stupid moves that Salesforce made historians like come back to me. I'll never forget that spring release They messed up on and a good expedition the presentation builder like I'll never forget you want cross filters Analytics edition analyze this you better pay for that crap nevermind It's like a third of the cost of your of your life one joined reports analytics edition He wants to measure goals. Work.com. Oh wait, that's dead too. Alright, so let's talk about, anyway, he does a good job just sort of like showing you what you can do and kind of comparing.

Jason Atwood: Screenshoting? Yes, screenshotting. Telling you what you can't do. Yes, and he red arrows some stuff in here. Yeah. Crazy red arrows. He must have had fun with his preview. Thank you.

Justin Edelstein: So the largest omissions, he says, includes cross filters, joint reports, and bucketing. And they have plans to someday, maybe,

Jason Atwood: Have them ready by the general release. I find there are things in Lightning about report building. So when you're in a report, now in the builder side, I haven't used the new builder. But on the report side, there's some nice things like you can click like the charting is very nice. You click the chart, it shows up and you can control it right there. Why are you looking at the report? Unlike the old one, you had to go back into the edit mode and it chart right and then pop, then pop a new window above and then I get it and then it wouldn't look like this is like real time. And it does all these nice animations. But I find some of the stuff like filtering, like I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I can't quickly change date, date ranges.

Jason Atwood: They have, you have this filter on the side and you have to kind of expose it as versus classic. It was just right there in line. You go, current year, run, last year, run, tomorrow, run. And this you kind of have to go in and then click in and it pops another window. I think that's something enlightening that. Salesforce has to take a look at it gets to modal Modals and modals and modals and a filter within a filter within a filter love me some modals I'm not sure I do just saying I think that's a That's a thing. So anyway, the new report builder coming to a Salesforce org near you it is beta. Yes beta I don't know if it's gonna be a is it? Yeah, it is. It's a beta I I I I I I I I I Before it went up that's so terrible.

11:20 Jason Atwood: Have a good job Daniel, good job for sneaking that stuff up another the blog, looking for Of course it is.

Justin Edelstein: Oh yeah it is. Okay. and they were having a and they were having a conference called the future of work. And they wanted to beta test the community, see how it was going to go,assetsadobe really really well. The conference was really great. They had break, they called eye labs. I like a little competition projects that were being and they were all very much modeled after the Dreamforce................... and chatter feeds on those. People can post their presentations, all the communication, the agenda, everything was going on inside Salesforce. It was very, very cool. It was a whirlwind. I was in Spain for like four days. It was a whirlwind affair. You have to get there. Europe in four days isistered I left to the I that's the I did eat tapas.

Jason Atwood: The worst I've ever done is San Francisco out and back in the same day. That's no fun. It literally just fly out, two hour meeting, a couple drinks and getting a plane fly back. really.

14:31 Justin Edelstein: It was a good adventure though, a great experience and a successful beta launch of the product. And you got to work the booth. Yes, there was a booth. It was called the iLounge. powered by Salesforce.

Jason Atwood: Apple didn't come and see you for all the eye usage.

Justin Edelstein: I am not the one who did that. Eyes and hour can deal with that. Yeah, it was good clean fun. I had a couple monitors in front of me, big ones showing people how to use it, how to get in, reset some people's passwords.

Jason Atwood: Mostly did everything on people's phones. Really? Yeah,

Justin Edelstein: So that'll be fun. I have to figure out how to stop recording this. Oh, no, we need to do pics Yes, we have to do pic. Oh, let me do mine. All right. All right. I have it in front of me All right. It's my wife's it's not mine. My my wife.

Jason Atwood: This is a hardware pic Yeah, it's called the way can we add this to the list of pics you've made they've never used. Yeah that Yes, just added to this one. You don't even own No, well, I mean, kind of.

Justin Edelstein: I mean, my wife owns it. But that doesn't make you own it. Sure. It's the little ladies. All right. So OWC is the company. Oh, they're world computing. Yep, sure.

Jason Atwood: They make it around for like 10, 15 years. Sure. Maxhills.com.

Justin Edelstein: Yep. All those things. They made a dock for the new MacBook Pros. that the ones that have just the USB-Cs in them. And this is a, it's called the Thunderbolt 3 dock. And it literally comes, and again, the little lady I think I've talked about, she's a film editor. So she has some older drives and older tech that kind of... Like, you don't make the new versions of, like, this stuff doesn't move so fast. So, she needed something like this, and this dock has 13 ports of connectivity attached to it. It has an SD card slot. It has five USB 3 ports. Just in case you need five of them. I do need five. It has a digital audio port. Okay. It has a FireWire 800, which is really like why she she bought it.

Justin Edelstein: Right. For old school FireWire. Yep. A gigabit internet, a gigabit ethernet. Two Thunderbolt 3 ports, so you don't lose those. One mini display port. And then I don't even know yeah, and then one hybrid microphone jack, so you know? it's not it's 299 but she needed all these connectors and dongles and things So this is what she went with and it finally shipped. It was announced way back when when they announced these macro pros and people were like Dongle, dongle, dongle, dongle. And she needed more than just a random set of dongles. She needed this.

18:05 Jason Atwood: Random set of dongles. Yeah, what are you doing? You're playing with your phone. Yeah, well, I'm listening to your thing. I know what it is, but I'm trying to get ready for my pick. My pick, Housecraft. So one thing that's released in OS 11 is VR. So now they have lots of VR apps like this one that can place furniture. Oh, you put a chair in my apartment. I put a chair in your apartment. This would have been very useful for you about, I don't know, a month ago. Yeah. Because you can literally just place serious objects and you have all sorts of different kinds.

Justin Edelstein: The Ikea has one. Where did those come from? Is that from an app?

Jason Atwood: So, yeah, so it's called housecraft. And so, like, I get, oh, look, you have this actual thing. I could have placed that thing there. And you place it there, and then you can resize it. You can move it around. You can spin around it to see how it looks in the room.

Justin Edelstein: It'd be cool if you could take your own pictures, your own, like, screenshots of whatever it is that you're doing and drop.

Jason Atwood: The it's called housecraft free try it out try out all the VR apps there are really I mean this is Apple's making a big play I think they're trying to play ketchup but anyway so housecraft is that VR or AR? Sorry augmented reality there's virtual reality that's augmented yeah it's augmented it's not virtual it's not virtual but it's augmented it's? augmented yes all right And it's based on their thing called ARKit. Hey, wrap this up. All right, wrapping them up. So follow us on Twitter at just LC and at Jason. Matt with Facebook.com forward slash Argas Inc. Success community. Power of us group hubs. We have we have groups there. We got the groups. We have the meets. That are we? LinkedIn, Google+, and we're on TuneIn, and we're on Google Play, which is more important.

Jason Atwood: You can subscribe there, iTunes, Stitcher, all these places. Until next week, and you gotta hit the big stop button when I'm doing a video. Stop, I got it, I got it. You ready? I got it, I'm ready. It's Justin Jason saying enjoy those cloudy days.

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