Salesforce Spring 23 Release Interesting Features

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Spring 23 sandbox preview cutoff date is Jan 7th, 2023. Refresh your sandbox between now and Jan 7th to redirect to preview instance as per sandbox preview instructions article. Post Jan 7th, new/incomplete sandbox refresh requests would be routed to non preview instance i.e. current release. 

All preview instances will be upgraded to Spring 23 on Jan 7th, 2023 and non preview instances on Feb 8th/15th.

Review the Sandbox Preview Guide to verify if your sandbox falls in preview/non preview and here is the detailed demo.

Spring23 release notes - here

Release Readiness Trailblazer Community Group - here

Non Production/Testing Use case features -
Pilot - Usually the first phase of public testing, Pilots normally include a small subset of participant Organizations. These Organization’s must request to opt in to a Pilot and then be nominated for participation.

BETA - Features with successful Pilots will often transition to the BETA phase. This involves rolling the feature out publicly for testing. 

Features for Production Use -
Generally Available (GA) - Once a feature has passed the Pilot and BETA testing phases it will be formally included in a Salesforce release.

Spring23 Release Highlights | Demo here - TBU

Flows - 

• Convert Processes to Flows with the Migrate to Flow Tool, The Migrate to Flow tool supports only record-triggered processes. Custom event and custom invocable type processes aren’t supported.
• MuleSoft Composer for Salesforce is now Flow Integration
• Automate processes with external data by creating Flow Builder actions that call web-based service APIs using HTTP Callout.
• Build Screens with Interactive Components (Beta)- you can build screens that feel like single-page applications and reduce the number of screens for your user.
• Flow builders can now use multi-select picklists with the Checkbox Group and Multi-Select Choice components.
• Now you can easily see what each element is doing within a flow in Auto-Layout. Previously, to see the user-provided description, you opened the element.
• Now it’s easier to find what you’re looking for in the flow element menu in Auto-Layout with element descriptions in tooltips.

General Enhancements - 

• Email Streamline - To reduce the number of emails that you receive, the Release Is Live email is updated, and the Features Enabled email is discontinued.
• To improve memory usage and the scalability of console sessions in Lightning Experience, set the maximum number of loaded console tabs.From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Loaded Console Tab Limit, and then select Loaded Console Tab Limit.

Lightning App Builder - 

• Dynamic Forms capability is now available for case and lead earlier it is for account/contact/opportunity
• Dynamic Actions for Standard Objects (Generally Available)
• Add Save Options to Accounts, Cases, and Leads with Dynamic Forms 
• Dynamic related lists now include a View All link so that users can see a full list of related records, Previously, users saw only up to 30 records in a dynamic related list on the record detail page.
• Use the new Pinned Right Sidebar (3 regions) template to create record pages in which you can show important information

Sharing - 

• Recalculate Account Sharing Rules Faster (Beta)

Enhanced Domain -

• To opt out of the automatic deployment of enhanced domains deselect Automatically deploy enhanced domains with Spring ’23, doing this release update will now be enabled as part of next release Summer23 - Enhanced Domain FAQ

Analytics(Reports&Dashboards) - 

• Report subscription limit has been increased from 7 to 15
• Collections can be leveraged by enabling the unified experience setting

Other Interesting Features- 

• Async soql is being retired from Spring23
• You can now delete, activate, deactivate, or replace multiple custom picklist field values at once. Previously, you modified them one at a time. This feature is available only for custom picklists with predefined values.
• Track up to six fields so that your team can see what’s changed in the Related tab for events and tasks. The Activity Record History component is automatically added to default event and task Lightning pages.
• Now when you set or change field-level security for a field on permission sets, you can view by permission sets with object permissions, or by all permission sets.(Ensure to enable FLS for permission sets in User Management Settings), Profile Permissions is set for end of life during Spring26 release, details here https://admin.salesforce.com/blog/2023/permissions-updates-learn-moar-spring-23

Spring23 Enforced Release Updates - 

• Apply User Access Permissions to Navigation Menus Retrieved by Apex in Experience Cloud Sites (Release Update)
• Enable Content Sniffing Protection (Release Update) - Post enforcement this can be disabled by navigating to session settings
• Upgrade SAML Single Sign-On Framework (Release Update)
• Run Flows in User Context via REST API (Release Update)
• Enable Stronger Protection for Your Users’ Personal Information (Release Update)
• Upgrade SAML Single Sign-On Framework (Release Update)
• Require Granular Flow Permissions for Experience Cloud Guest Users (Release Update)