Spanning Salesforce Blog

90% or Better Opportunities Feed Fixed

The link to the "90% or Better Opportunities" feed on the Spanning Partners site had the wrong URL. It's now been fixed, so if you're subscribed to the old link, just unsubscribe and then subscribe to the link that's now on the site:

All 90% or Better Opportunities

Apologies for any confusion.

SFB-Generated Feeds Move From RSS 2.0 to Atom 1.0

A quick programming note: I've made the switch from RSS to Atom for all feeds generated by Spanning Feed Builder, but will leave the preconfigured Spanning Salesforce v3.0 feeds in RSS to minimize disruption with third-party applications.

Please email me if you have any questions, or more importantly if this is going to cause your app to break.

SFB v1.1 Reaches Feature Parity with SSF v3.0

If the above headline leaves you scratching your head, don't worry. But here's the scoop:

Spanning Salesforce 3.0 introduced a bunch of new feeds, including several that had criteria based on period-relative dates, like the end of the previous quarter or the beginning of the current month. Until today, Spanning Feed Builder was capable of reproducing all of the SSF 3.0 feeds except these. But now that final limitation has been removed, and SFB is capable of building all of the SSF 3.0 feeds.

Now when you build a feed in Spanning Feed Builder, you can specify a date like "current quarter start" or "next month end". This makes it possible to create feeds like All Opportunities Closing This Quarter. Here's how:

(If you'd rather just watch a video showing how it's done, click here.)

1. Click on the Feeds tab in Salesforce.com
2. Select "All" and "Opportunities" for the data type
3. Select "Closed", "Is", and "False" for a criterion and click "Add"
4. Select "Close Date" and "Is on or after" and enter "current quarter start" for a criterion and click "Add"
5. Select "Close Date" and "Is on or before" and enter "current quarter end" for a criterion and click "Add"
6. Select "Name" for the feed item title and click "Add Field"
7. Enter "All Opportunities Closing This Quarter" for the feed title
8. Click "Build Feed"

Voila! Now, go nuts!

New SSF Feeds for Manticore Virtual Touchstone

Manticore Technology specializes in marketing optimization and lead generation. Manticore's Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange tracks the behavior of leads and opportunities and ties that information back into salesforce.com, so sales and marketing professionals can know when prospects visit their web sites, open or forward their emails, and subscribe to their mailing lists.

Now users can subscribe to RSS feeds from Virtual Touchstone to track this vital information without clogging their email inboxes with notifications.

Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange features individual feeds for web, email, and list activities:

• My Recent Web Visits
• My Recent Email Activities
• My Recent List Activities

Alternately, users can subscribe to a catch-all feed that includes results for all activity types:

• My Recent Marketing Activities

To subscribe to feeds from Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange, users must have Virtual Touchstone for AppExchange, a feed reader that supports secure feeds, and a current Spanning Salesforce subscription.