Many of salesforce developers are migrating from Salesforce Classic to Lightning. Here is what we build our first lightning component. PreRequisit: Basic knowledge about HTML. Basic knowledge about Salesforce. Benefits: You can build your own lightning component. Kick start your career in lightning. You will get to know about lightning application. How you can use […]
I am following this idea since I needed this feature in one of my projects. Since Salesforce already has this in their future roadmap, I realized that It could be an addition to my #GivingBackToCommunity list. I managed to create a lightning component which can be used with lightning action on Opportunity records. This will […]
Custom Metadata Type has become an essential ingredient when it comes to developing a configurable app in Salesforce. Many ISVs app on AppExchange is using CMT ( Custom Metadata Type ) in their apps. You may have used custom metadata types too in your app but when it comes to inserting/updating records using apex, you […]
D3.js is the most popular library for creating interactive charts in any web application. You can also use D3.js library in Lightning components for graphical representation of data. These charts can be used to give sales insights to a member ( Salesforce user) of the sales team. This article will show how can we leverage D3.js […]
If you are building a lightning component for a lightning-quick action then you must be having a hard time to add additional buttons to the footer. If you are implementing the force:lightningQuickActionWithoutHeader interface in the component then you can get rid of the default header and footer and can create your own footer with the […]
While working on a lightning component development, I found that there is no standard way to open a lighting component in a new tab. You can find the same problem being asked on developer forums. So, to be honest there is no standard way to achieve this behavior. I used a workaround to get this […]
Having trouble with and components? Then why don’t you use Jqyery Datepicker? Jquery datepicker gives a lot of flexibility and freedom to developers to let them use a datepicker as per business needs. A developer can enforce validation on dates and date range which is very hard to impose using these out-of-the-box components as they rely […]
Accessing record ID in the Lightning component is very simple. Just use following things. Implements force:hasRecordId interface in the component as follows. <aura:component implements=”flexipage:availableForRecordHome,force:hasRecordId” access=”global”> Define an aura:attribute as follows. <aura:attribute name=”recordId” type=”String” description=”The ID of the record to be displayed. Provided by force:hasRecordId interface.”/>
Recently, while answering on developer forums. I came across a question where someone asked about a lightning component to display records in the table using a fieldset. I tried to put my effort to create a generic lightning component which can be used with any object and a fieldset. After the release of new components […]