Page Comparison

5.0.0x

15-Mar-2021

Critical Note: 

• If you are running Salesforce Field Service app within Pulsar, please make sure to install the latest Pulsar FSL beta file. 

Pulsar FSL Beta File

New Features: 

• Custom Notifications 

  • Salesforce platform enabled custom notifications to help customers deliver mobile push notifications upon specific process or event execution. This versionof the Pulsar application supports receiving those notifications on the mobile client. To learn more about Salesforce custom notifications, please visit: https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=sf.notif_builder_custom.htm&type=5. 

  • Note: You would also need to update your Pulsar Settings (Pulsar Premium) AppExchange package to 5.0 in order for this feature to be fully functional. 

• Online Search in list views 

  • Some of our customers who download a subset of the data to the device for full offline functionality would like to be able to search Salesforce records if that specific record is not found in the local database. With this new feature (enabled by a specific Pulsar Setting), when you search for an item and it is not found in the local database, the app will give an option to perform the search on Salesforce server. When they find and choose the record they are looking for, it will be stored to the local database ready for future offline usage.

  • Note: This additional online search will only work if you are connected to the network. If the device currently has no connectivity, it won’t be able to do the online search.

• Pulsar deep link invocation now supports launching a custom HTML document. Documentation here: https://luminix.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PD/pages/1052966913/5.+Pulsar+Deep+Links

• iOS : Improvement to performance when interacting with Native Pulsar object windows from custom HTML. No functional/behavioral/navigational changes here except for performance improvement.

Retired Features: 

• None

UI Changes: 

• iOS/Windows/Android: lookup and text fields now support using the barcode reader to fill the field

• iOS: Slight UI improvement to guide the user to rotate the phone to landscape mode when scanning a barcode

• Windows – Minor UI change to prevent the sync banner appearing in a pop-up page in desktop/laptop mode

• Windows and Android – Slight improvement to date format display to match Salesforce browser

JSAPI Methods: 

• Existing methods: 

  • JSAPI Update method has been changed to apply trim function before executing the SQL query to be more helpful to developers. This should not change/affect any of your custom code because if there were extraneous characters in your query before this release, the query would not have worked anyway and it would have forced you to fix your code 

  • ViewObject() JSAPI call will now recognize ContentVersion and actually open the file as opposed to the wrapper object. This will not impact any other object. So unless you are using viewobject method for ContentVersion specifically, this doesn’t change anything else. 

• New methods: 

  • Added a method to jump to the home page from a custom HTML/JS page

PSL Actions:

• Existing Actions: 

  • No changes

• New Actions: 

  • Added an action to support kicking off sync from within PSL

  • PSL for returning the translated custom label will allow a variable to be specified for Locale parameter

FSL Notifications:

• Better handling of notifications received when the device was completely offline when the actual notification triggered on Salesforce

Flows: 

• Allows flow collection assignment to a flow variable

• Flow decision logic allows advanced AND/OR logic

Various bug fixes also included!