Lightning Experience Productivity - Collaborate with Feeds and Groups

Chatter Publisher

• The Chatter publisher in Salesforce Classic provides controls for adding styles and lists to a post, posting a file link, and adding an event.
• The Chatter publisher in Lightning Experience offers additional features, including:
  • Adding an inline image and linking from the post
  • Inserting code snippets
  • Selecting an emoji
  • Mentioning a person or a group
  • Linking to records in the post
  • Attaching up to 10 files to the post
  • Auto-saving draft posts every 7 seconds
  • Viewing drafts in the My Drafts feed

Collaboration in Lightning Experience

• Collaboration is better in Lightning Experience, allowing users to work faster and do more.
• Features in Lightning Experience include:
  • Live feeds and streams
  • Record linking
  • Hyperlinks in posts and comments
  • Auto-saved draft posts
  • Cloned sharing

Inline Actions

• In Lightning Experience, images can be added inline in a post, providing a more direct visual experience.
• Inline hyperlinking is also available in Lightning Experience, allowing users to highlight text and link to a URL.

Live Feeds

• Live feeds in Lightning Experience provide real-time updates, eliminating the need for page refreshes.
• New posts and comments flash yellow, and a notification pops up at the top of the feed.
• Live comments are available everywhere, not just in groups.

Streams

• Streams in Lightning Experience allow users to combine multiple feeds from various objects into a single view.
• Streams can be created quickly and easily, and up to 100 streams can be created.
• Up to 25 feeds can be added to a stream.

Sharing

• In Lightning Experience, a shared post is more like a window on the original, allowing updates to be reflected in the shared post.
• The process of grabbing a link to a post is more efficient, with a Copy Link option available.

Groups

• Groups in Lightning Experience offer a unique and convenient feature set, including:
  • Live feeds
  • Seen-by capability in private and unlisted groups
  • Post pinning, allowing up to three posts to be pinned to the top of a group or topic feed
• Groups in Lightning Experience have a more visually appealing design, with a banner image and a field for searching in the feed.

Group Management

• Group owners or managers can add or change a group banner, which can be a panoramic image of at least 1280 x 300 pixels.
• The process of adding a banner is easy and quick, with the ability to upload an image and save it.