As I was perusing the Idea Exchange today, I came across this item with a comment from Salesforce saying that it was coming in Spring ’08 and was tagged as such.
A little URL hacking later and I came up with the feed to follow what’s coming in Spring ’08.
http://ideas.salesforce.com/xml/rss?tags_string=coming_in_spring_08
I made a small improvement to Auto vCard and the new version (1.3) is available on the AppExchange now. Prior to 1.3, the country field was not included in the URL and was not being accounted for in the vCard. This has now been changed and it is included in version 1.3.
It is recommended to upgrade, just to stay current. To do so:
Use of Auto vCard has really picked up usage. As of today, it is listed at #7 in the Top Installs list on the main AppExchange page. vCards created by month through November 2007 is below.
Lastly, if you are a user of Auto vCard and would like to contribute an honest review to the AppExchange, it would be great to get some feedback.
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Salesforce has mostly implemented their security changes. FYI, this is the help file page explaining to admins how to setup Network Access in the application and what happens when a user logs in.
If you have an org that you need access to without the burden of this restriction (e.g. an org you use to perform demos at various locations and/or from many different computers where you might not have email access), you can authorize all IPs by making 0.0.0.0 the start IP and 255.255.255.255 the end IP in a Network Access record.
Doing this will essentially put that org’s security back to what it was before Salesforce made their enhancements. I wouldn’t recommend making this change unless you actually need it, but it can come in handy even if for a short-term fix.
This is the approach Salesforce.com has taken for Test Drive orgs on AppExchange listings so that Test Drive users are not restricted access to a demo. All of my Test Drives had a record with this range pre-populated by Salesforce when they made their security changes.
Note: I do not recommend anyone do this for their corporate Salesforce.com org as this would negate all the good work Salesforce has done to button things up.
If you are an AppExchange partner, you can join the Spring ’08 pre-release program. The nice thing about how Salesforce is approaching it this time is that you can have one of your developer orgs cloned to a pre-release server. This allows you to really see how your own configuration will be affected by the new release.
The steps to do it are easy. Go to http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Early_Access_Program to learn more.
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