Salesforce Lightning Performance

Salesforce Lightning promises a lightning experience, however, some users experience a much slower performance in Lightning compare to Classic. Let's discuss how Lightning different from Classic and what we can do to improve the performance.

In Salesforce Classic, web pages are generated by the server, and then they’re rendered on the client (your user’s desktop or mobile device). In Lightning Experience, pages are loaded on your user’s device progressively, component by component.


1. IdeaExchange
Vote for this idea Lightning Experience LEX - lightning speed please! - as of now 55,490 points, feel free to vote that idea, but as performance is a long journey, let us dig further what we can do to increase the performance


2. Geographical
Yes, Salesforce is on the cloud, meaning you can access Salesforce from anywhere with an internet connection. However, your Salesforce org. still located in an instance with physical hardware in the data centers.

You may see instance APxx, EUxx, NAxx, which represents the data center's physical location that hosts your Salesforce org. (Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America). You should choose the instance that near to you. However, if your users are scattered around the world, select the instance where most of your users are located. When the user is located nearer to the Salesforce data center, latency will be lower and have better performance.

Using the speed test provided by salesforce, we can check the latency between our computer to salesforce org. that we are accessing. Make sure you already log in to Salesforce before running the speed test, you just need to add speedtest.jsp after salesforce.com/, here is the syntax https://[domain].my.salesforce.com/speedtest.jsp

The latency is 107 ms for my computer in Singapore to access the AP4 instance

The latency is 276 ms for my computer in Singapore to access the NA89 instance

From the above screenshots accessing the AP4 instance is much faster for me compare to the org located in NA89.

For the fastest and most stable experience, Salesforce recommends:

• An Octane score of 30,000 or greater
• Network latency of 150 ms or less
• Download speed of 3 Mbps or greater
• At least 8 GB of RAM, with 3 GB available for Salesforce browser tabs

Minimum requirements are:

• An Octane score of 20,000 or greater
• Network latency of 200 ms or less
• Download speed of 1 Mbps or greater
• At least 5 GB of RAM, with 2 GB available for Salesforce browser tabs

3. Hardware

In the above screenshots, at the top left, the speed test measures the Octane score. An Octane score is a benchmark that measures a JavaScript engine's performance by running a series of automated tests. The higher the Octane score, the better your Lightning Experience performance will be. Make sure your device has enough RAM. 

4. Web Browser

Lightning Experience supports most browsers, but you may find that it runs faster in some browsers than others. For instance, Lightning Experience runs faster in Google Chrome than Safari. 

You can check the best performance by browser from Lightning Usage App and select the Browser menu under Usage.

5. Experienced Page Time (EPT) 

Experienced Page Time (EPT) is a performance metric Salesforce uses in Lightning to measure page load time. EPT measures how long it takes for a page to load into a state that a user can meaningfully interact with.

To see the page load time/EPT counter from a page, you just need to add ?eptVisible=1 at the end of the URL, for example, https://domain.lightning.force.com/lightning/page/home?eptVisible=1

Each page will have a different EPT depending on the components added to the page. 

6. Lightning Component Debug Mode

Follow this document to enable debug mode for certain users. Salesforce is slower for any user who has debug mode enabled. Don’t leave debug mode on permanently. Users who have debug mode enabled see a banner notification once a week while it’s enabled.

Once the debug mode is enabled for you, you will also see the page load time (similar to eptVisible=1) and network bandwidth. You can click on the network bandwidth numbers to clear the storage, otherwise, it will be kept adding.

7. Lightning Page Analysis 

You can analyze lightning a page performance by editing the page and click Analyze button, you will get the predicted page load time (in seconds) and performance breakdown by component.

Reference: 

• Improve performance and speed in Lightning Experience
• Measure lightning page load times
• Lightning Experience Performance Optimization
• Improve Speed and Performance in Lightning Experience
• Measure Lightning Experience Performance and Experienced Page Time (EPT)

Salesforce Inbox

Almost 2 years ago, we shared how to check the Salesforce Inbox License, but we have not discussed the Salesforce Inbox itself. Read this blog if you use Unlimited or Performance edition.

Salesforce Inbox is a productivity tool to integrate Salesforce with emails, such as Outlook and Gmail. It is available at an additional cost, except your company already purchased additional products that include Inbox. Inbox work in the Core Salesforce platform which is Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Lightning Platform.

You can get Inbox licenses through the following products:

• Sales Cloud Einstein
• High Velocity Sales
• Inbox

Additional productivity features offered by Inbox:

• Calendar availability
• Email tracking and Links tracking
• Email template and Text shortcuts
• Scheduling email delivery

View/Open Email

Here are screenshots of the Salesforce panel in Outlook for users with and without Inbox

Related tab is the default tab for both users with and without Inbox, from here, users are able to log email open to Salesforce. Also will display information related to People, Accounts, Opportunities, and Cases, based on the email address of the sender and recipients.

Tasks tab is also available for both users with and without Inbox. This tab will show your Tasks in Salesforce.

Feed tab will show you tracked emails that have been opened and links that have been clicked, this is only available for Inbox users.

Schedule tab will show all emails that have been scheduled for delivery, you can edit the send time and delete the email scheduled, the email itself is stored in the Draft folder. This is only available for Inbox users.

Compose Email

Related tab, this is similar for users with and without Inbox, with the exception of "Log Email on Send" move to Compose tab for users who have Inbox permission, the default tab for Inbox users is Compose, instead of Related.

Tasks tab, this is similar to the tab when the user views/opens an email.

Feed and Scheduled tab, both these tab are similar to the tabs when view email and are only available for Inbox users.

Compose tab, this is the default tab for users with Inbox. There are a lot of productivity features from:

• Manually add your availability slots with the visibility of your Outlook calendar
• Enable email for tracking and tracking links
• Add text shortcut, this is useful when your user always sends the same wording
• Send Later, to make sure the email sent appears on the recipient's business hour

Inbox mobile app

Inbox also provides an additional mobile app that offers the same features as the Outlook plugin, you can download it from App Store or Google Play Store.

Reference:

• Salesforce Inbox License
• Salesforce Inbox
• Inbox Clients

Einstein Analytics: "Fix" data with Update transformation

Scenario: there are changes in the business, based on the revision given, we need to update data stored in an existing dataset or create a new dataset.

Solution: use dataflow, in this scenario, we are going to use the update node, which is not so commonly used in the dataflow.

JSON behind update node

 "updateMaster": {

    "action": "update",

    "parameters": {

      "left": "getMaster",

      "update_columns": {

        "ID": "ID",

        "Desc": "Note"

      },

      "right": "getRevision",

      "left_key": [

        "ID"

      ],

      "right_key": [

        "Old_ID"

      ]

    }

  }

For the register node:

• Put the same Alias/Name to the master dataset if you want to overwrite it, the existing dashboard will work as per normal
• Use different Alias/Name from the source master dataset if you want to create a new dataset, you need to edit the existing dashboard to use the new dataset created. 

Reference:

• update Transformation

Empowering People and Businesses Through Technology

This blog appeared first on https://www.salesforce.com/ap/blog/2021/04/meet-trailblazer-johan-yu.html

At Salesforce, Nichola Palmer works with customers to bring their stories of innovation and transformation to life. In this blog series featuring Trailblazers, Nichola introduces Johan Yu, a Salesforce MVP, business systems architect, blogger, and author, based in Singapore. Johan loves using the power of data for the benefit of all business stakeholders.

In the remote Indonesian village where Johan Yu grew up, electricity was a rare luxury. Therefore, all tasks connected to his father’s farming business were done manually. Along with the farming itself, these included record-keeping of expenses, crop production levels, and sales accounts.

At school, Johan began to learn about computers. Very soon, he recognised the power such technology would bring to his father’s business, as well as his community. Johan wasn’t thinking of anything sophisticated like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, or robotic automation. Such technology was still a long way off. He could simply see that certain jobs were better left to machines, enabling humans to be better at what they do.

“At my high school, we had a computer lab and I became very interested in computers,” says Johan. “Once my teachers knew I was interested in computer science, they guided me on a path to study at university in Jakarta.”

Johan earned a Bachelor of Computer, Management Information Systems, at Jakarta’s BINUS University. Then, he took a Master of Management, Information Systems, at BINUS University and Australia’s Curtin University. 

While studying,  Johan realised his dream could come true. As a child, he had imagined using the power of computing to help businesspeople like his father. Today, he is a business systems architect and Salesforce MVP, who works with businesses to solve problems using technology.

Becoming “skilled, more competent, and faster”

For seven years during and following university, Johan worked for an insurance firm. Then he moved to Sydney, Australia, and took a job with the country’s first Salesforce partner. Immediately, the Salesforce platform made sense to him. It wasn’t so much about what it did, but more about what it allowed him to do.

“I had come from using basic systems to building applications,” Johan says. “And I realised there were a lot of things that I thought IT professionals shouldn’t have to do any more.

“I saw that we could focus more on how technology can enable the strategic needs of the business, rather than just the infrastructure required. The capabilities of the technology enabled us to think about the business in a different way.”

The capabilities of the Salesforce platform made him feel “skilled, more competent, and faster”, Johan says. In the past, he had never experienced a strong community around a platform or brand. So when he had challenges, it was sometimes difficult to find solutions. But once he discovered how active the Salesforce community was, he realised he was able to find answers immediately, from Trailblazers all over the world.

“I appreciated the speed to execute,” he says. “In the past, I had to spend a long time setting up the server, the database, and more. But the Salesforce platform is so convenient. I could just start working on projects immediately. And reach out to the community for help when needed.”

Success = user experience + empowerment

Johan is currently working in a multinational company, from his home in Singapore, with more than 10,000 people around the globe. How does he ensure they’re all making the most of a platform or application that has been developed for them? 

“We try to make sure apps are simple for users to understand and interact with,” he says. “We don’t want to put too much effort into documentation. If it is user-friendly, then it makes sense. If it’s not user-friendly, it’s just wasting money.”

Importantly, Johan says, technology is not about replacing people. Its true power, as he realised when he was a young boy, is in making people even better at what they do.

“In the corporate world, we don’t use AI to replace people. We use it to enable people,” he says. 

“Our people can use AI to see how likely it is that a sale will close. The propensity to close is based on historical data and on the experience of similar customers. So, the AI helps salespeople to prioritise their work. We see that it makes them more successful.”

Leading the Salesforce community in Singapore

In Singapore, Johan is well-known as a generous leader within the Salesforce community. He is considered a knowledgeable expert, who spends a great deal of time helping others to find solutions to powerful business challenges.

This assistance includes a Salesforce-themed blog site, managed and written by Johan, which attracts more than  2,200 people every day from around the world. Most of his visitors are not from Singapore. They come from the USA, UK, and India. His reputation has spread around the globe.

The prolific sharer of knowledge has also written three books. They are Salesforce Reporting and Dashboards, Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards, and Getting Started with Salesforce Einstein Analytics.

“One of my passions is sharing knowledge with other people,” Johan says. “It’s something I really enjoy. The community has always given me answers fast and shared its knowledge, so I like to do the same.”

Salesforce: Query User Assigned with Package License

Scenario: your company purchased X licenses for a package software installed in Salesforce, what is the easy way to extract users has been granted with that package software?

Solution: open the Package Details then click the "Manage Licenses" button. However, this is not easy when you have thousands of users.

Alternative solution: use SOQL, so we can extract the data easily.

1. Query the Package Id

You need to know the Namespace Prefix of the package to get the Package Id. You can get the Namespace Prefix from Package Details, including allowed licenses and used licenses.

SELECT Id, NamespacePrefix, AllowedLicenses, UsedLicenses, CreatedDate, ExpirationDate, Status FROM PackageLicense ORDER BY NamespacePrefix

2. Query User Package License object

SELECT Id, PackageLicenseId, CreatedById, CreatedDate, UserId FROM UserPackageLicense

By query UserPackageLicense object and filter with PackageLicenseId, you can get :

- UserId: user assigned with the license

- CreatedById: who grants the license

- CreatedByDate: when is the license granted

But unfortunately, you can't use relationship query for UserId to get the name and profile and so on, so you need to query to User object again, subscribe for this KI.

Search in Lightning Experience

Here a few items to note related to search in Lightning Experience:

1. Not all standard objects and standard fields are searchable in Salesforce, check out this article, and this article to make additional fields searchable.
2. For custom objects, Allow Search option must be enabled.
3. You can filter your search result to a specific object.
4. Limit the number of results by entering more specific search terms. For example, enter the full name and company (Mike Jones Salesforce). 
5. As you type, you will see suggested records:
• Recently accessed items
• Results that match Name field values
6. After a record is created or updated, it can take a few minutes for the new text to be indexed and become searchable. A record doesn’t show in the search results until it’s in the index. Wait a few minutes and search again.
7. The search engine only returns results you have permission to view.
8. Ensure the object has a tab created. Objects without a tab aren't returned in search results, Tab visibility for the affected User's assigned profile is set to 'Default On' or 'Default Off' and not Tab Hidden.
9. If your search contains punctuation, phone, email, or special characters and you’re not getting the right results, try your search with white spaces in place of the punctuation, check out this article.
10. Formula fields are not searchable.
11. The field that contains the keyword does not need must be in the page layout.

Reference:

• Searchable Fields by Object in Lightning Experience
• Make additional fields searchable
• Find Information with Search
• How Does Search Break Up Information?
• Objects displayed in search results inconsistent between Users