Summer ’25 Brings Game-Changing Tools for Salesforce Admins

Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Jennifer Lee, Lead Admin Evangelist at Salesforce.

Join us as we chat about what’s coming in the Summer ‘25 release and the features that will make your life easier as an admin.

You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Jennifer Lee.

The Summer ‘25 release is coming soon

It’s that time of year again. The time for popsicles, backyard barbecues, and the Summer ‘25 Release. So I’ve brought none other than Jennifer Lee on the pod to tell us what’s coming for admins.

As always, Jen has a great blog post covering all of the changes with animated gifs that show how they work. I’d highly recommend scrolling through it as a visual companion to this episode, but the big takeaway here is that admins’ lives are about to get a whole lot easier.

Jen’s highlights from the Summer ‘25 release

At a high level, Summer ‘25 means fewer clicks and more control for admins. Jen highlights some key changes:

• The Close Case button: No need for custom buttons—you can add a Close Case button to the Case Details page and save your reps the extra clicks.

• Better custom object deletion: When you delete a custom object, you’ll see a detailed page listing any relationships it has to other objects.

• The new Permission Set Summary page: You can now update user, object, field, and custom permissions directly from a permission set’s Summary page, without navigating to multiple pages.

• Expanded Salesforce Go: Your guided tour for how to enable/configure features in your Salesforce edition, with resources to help you get started.

As always with releases, the little things add up. And these changes help you effortlessly manage your org like never before.

Powerful new features in Flow

Of course, no episode with Jen would be complete without diving into the changes coming for Flow. She draws our attention to a few key enhancements for Flow:

• Get related records (beta): Instead of dealing with multiple Get Records and Update Records elements, you can now get entire hierarchies of related records, such as an Account and all of its Contacts and Opportunities, in a single Get Records element.

• Expanded resources search in Flow Builder (beta): When you enable this feature in Setup, you’ll be able to quickly find resources like fields from records and outputs from actions.

• New Time data type: You can now reference the new Time data type for things like scheduling reminders, routing records based on specific times of day, and triggering time-sensitive actions with pinpoint accuracy.

• Debug enhancements: Debugging your flows has never been easier, with element-level summaries, and search capabilities within the debug to help get your flow flowing.

• Approval Wizard: It’s complicated to build an approval process, so we’ve made it easier to get started with up to three approval levels, final actions, and even a recall path.

There are a lot more great insights from Jen about screen flow enhancements and ot