Salesforce Winter ’25 Release

Winter ’25 Release Feature #1

Dynamic Highlights Panel

Salesforce continues to build on its dynamic lightning page components, further antiquating classic page layouts. The Winter ’25 Release offers new functionality to compact layouts and existing highlights panel by introducing the Dynamic Highlights Panel.

With the Dynamic Highlights Panel, admins will be able to display up to 12 fields and implement visibility rules to show and hide fields. The Dynamic Highlights Panel is also available for mobile when enabled in Setup.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #2

Conditional Formatting

Along with the Dynamic Highlights Panel, Field Conditional Formatting in the Winter ’25 release takes page customization even further by displaying icons and colors based on a field’s value.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #3

Object Access Summary

Salesforce has made it easier to research and troubleshoot permission access utilizing new features Object Access Summary and User Access Summary. Object Access Summary, which can be found in the Object Manager, gives admins a simplified view of the profiles, permission sets, and permission set groups that grants users create, read, edit, and delete access to a specific object.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #4

User Access Summary

Similarly, User Access Summary lists the system, object, and various permissions granted to a user via a profile, permission set, or permission set group.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #5

Enhanced User List View – Inline Edits

The new list view allows you to easily view, sort, filter, and modify user records directly, eliminating the need to navigate away.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #6

Upsert using the Create Records Element

With the Winter ’25 release, Admins will be able to utilize the Create Records element to create or update records based on whether a specific field value exists. Prior to this release, you’d have to utilize multiple elements to check whether a record existed. Ultimately, this new feature improves the efficiency of your flows.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #7

Repeater Component – Update Records

The Repeater component now supports updating existing record collections, making it easier for end users to modify a group of records within a screen flow. Previously, the component was limited to creating new records. With this enhanced functionality, you can access multiple output collections from the Repeater component, providing more flexibility in handling different user actions. You can also decide whether end users can add new items or remove prepopulated items in your Repeater instance.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #8

Errors and Warning Pane

Troubleshooting flow errors has never been easier. The newly introduced Errors and Warnings pane provides a comprehensive overview of issues that prevent you from saving or activating your flow. This user-friendly interface lists problems in a clear and concise format, making it simple to identify and address them.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #9

New Tips in Flow Builder

Salesforce has added new tips in Flow Builder that highlight potential bottlenecks in your flow designs. Specifically, these tips help you avoid reaching Apex governing limits and ensure optimal efficiency. Tips include avoiding using database elements such as create or update records inside a loop, to the example below that illustrates avoiding using a loop inside a loop. By following these tips, you can enhance your flow’s performance, improve the user experience, and reduce the need for troubleshooting.

Winter ’25 Release Feature #10

Easily Find Flow Child Resources

The updated resource menu allows you to directly search for and select child resources like screen components and screen actions, simplifying the referencing process.

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