0:00 Welcome
It's here! The Avonni October release landed on October 16th, and it's a big one. If you build Salesforce pages, screen flows or Experience sites with Avonni, this what's new is for you. No setup, no settings today: just six brand-new features doing real work, during one day at Northwind Solar, a solar installer in Boston. Each one gets its own setup video. Let's dive in!
0:26 Route planning on the map
First up, the big one: say hello to route planning. It's Monday morning, and Jordan, a field rep, has a day of site visits ahead. Here are his accounts, right on a map in Salesforce. Until now, planning that day meant copying addresses into another app. Not anymore. He opens the route panel and picks his stops: a click on a marker, or a lasso around a whole neighborhood. He starts from the office, hits Optimize, and just like that, the stops fall into the best driving order. Calculate route: the roads are drawn, and every stop gets its arrival time, visits and lunch break included. This one lands after the end of his day, so it turns orange. Jordan exports the route as a CSV, and his whole day is planned without ever leaving Salesforce.
1:12 Four new charts
Next, meet four brand-new charts. Ten o'clock, and Priya, the sales director, opens her Monday dashboard. A funnel: the open pipeline, stage by stage, so she sees exactly where deals slow down. A calendar heatmap: every deal won this year, day by day. Look at the end of each quarter: the rush jumps right out. A matrix: revenue by region and by product line, where the size of the bubble is the revenue and its color is the number of deals. And an area chart, to follow revenue month after month.
1:45 Outside calendars, inside Salesforce
Here's one dispatchers will love: outside calendars, inside Salesforce. Over in dispatch, Maya plans the installs, crew by crew. Her calendar now shows the public holiday calendar, straight from a link, and the team's time off, from a calendar file stored in Salesforce. They sit right next to the installs, recurring events and time zones included, and nothing gets copied into your records. Now look at the week of November 23rd. Sam has an install on Thanksgiving, and Maria has one in the middle of her vacation. Two conflicts, caught before the trucks ever roll.
2:21 The whole account family
Account managers, this one's for you: the whole account family, in one view. Diego manages Harborline Grocers, a chain with stores all around Boston. He opens the Cambridge store. The tree grid now shows the whole family from any account in it: the head office, the regions, every store, with the current account marked. Deeper levels load only when he opens them. And he never leaves the page.
2:47 Tabs that count
And right below, tabs that count. Each case tab now shows a number under its label: how many cases are new, escalated or closed for this store. A tab can count records or add up a field, like an amount. So Diego knows exactly where to look, before he even clicks.
3:06 Smarter filters
Filters just got a lot smarter. Back to Priya's open deals. They now go way beyond an exact match: between two amounts, greater than, not equal, empty or not empty, for numbers, dates and times. A filter can also carry your own label and open on a default value, and users can still change it. Here, every commercial deal between one hundred and two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
3:32 And there's more
And there's more. Filters and search can now float right on top of the map. Month and day names follow each user's language. On Experience sites, a click can run a flow in the background, and the Kanban, Map, Calendar and Activity Timeline get a search bar. Data tables gain actions in their column headers, and a cap on how many rows users can edit at once. File uploads can show as chips. And developers get a standalone Pagination component for their own Lightning web components. Plus dozens of fixes, including fixes for Winter '27 production orgs.
4:06 Get the update
Ready to try it? Update to Avonni Experience Components 1.29, Flow Components 6.34, or LWC Components 1.13. As always, try it in a sandbox first. The full changelog is linked in the description. So, which one will you try first? Tell us in the comments. Thanks for watching, and happy building!
