Yes, you heard it right! You can host your beautiful Analytics Dashboards outside Salesforce without much fuss(okay, maybe a little)! With the wave:waveDashboard base Aura component and Lightning Out, we can quite easily host our Analytics dashboards outside Salesforce. How do we make this happen? Let's try keeping it very simple.Broadly classified, we can have … Continue reading Wait, what? Displaying Analytics Dashboards outside Salesforce?
Yo! 😀 This article is all about styling! Okay so how many of you still often use Developer Console to code? I do! 🙋 Ever felt bored with the default color theme of Dev Console, or do you like coding on dark background which gives you that 'developer' vibe? Well, I got some good news … Continue reading Style your Developer Console!
Hey there! 🙂 In today's article, we shall discuss a quick and simple hack which will help us Merge Accounts and Contacts in Lightning just like we used to do in Classic. Why the need for this hack? Well, the merging of records works a bit in Lightning than Classic. In Lighnting, the merging of … Continue reading Merge Accounts and Contact in Lightning like Classic
Howdy! I got some good news for ya! 😀 We all know Contact Role objects have been a pain in the ...! Why? Because they are not first class objects, which implies you cannot create workflow rules, process builder or triggers on these objects. There are ideas posted, to vote for, on community for the … Continue reading Triggers on Opportunity/Account Contact Role objects – Using Change Data Capture
We all love celebrating! And no celebration is complete without some Confetti in it. In Summer'19, Salesforce introduced Confetti celebration in Lightning Path.https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/summer19/release-notes/rn_sales_features_core_path.htmBut what if I tell you we can toss this confetti at a lot more places than just Lighnting Path? Sounds exciting, right? But how do we do that? Well, there is a … Continue reading Add Confetti effect to Lightning components and Flows
Hola! So glad to see you here! 😀 So this is my third post of the series on handling validation in custom Flow Lightning components(no plans for the 4th one). Please make sure to give them a read before continuing further, otherwise this post may not make much sense. Validate custom Flow screen components in … Continue reading Adding Validation Errors on Individual Inputs in custom Flow Screen Components – Part 3
Hello and welcome back! 😀 In our previous post, we discussed how we can validate custom flow screen components, and towards the end of it we also touched upon the different limitations of this validation approach. In today's article we shall aim at finding the solution to one of the limitations we discussed in the … Continue reading Retain input values while validating custom Flow Screen Lightning components – Part 2
Developing custom flow screen components is awesome! But, there is always a but, there is no out of the box validation feature available to validate them in flows. But there is a cool feature, released in Winter 19, which let's you add validation within your component. So how exactly does it work? Salesforce validates each … Continue reading How to validate custom Flow screen components in Flows – Part 1
Howdy! 😀 Summer 19's Notification Builder is beautiful! And we can use it quite easily in Process builder. But what about flows? My first thought to this was "That should be easy!". Surprise surprise, that ain't easy. Why so?That's because if I have to use the custom notification feature in flows, I need to pass … Continue reading Using Notification Builder in Flows
Hi! With Summer 19, came an awesome new feature called Notification builder. But, with a weird limitation! So, for instance, if we were to send custom notifications via a flow instead of a process builder or when you want to publish it via Rest API, we need to input the ID of the Custom Notification … Continue reading How to get the ID of Custom Notification Types in Salesforce?
