Hello everybody! This is an “easy peasy” post that comes from a recent two-weeks full immersion on Lightning Components task I got into at work: there will be more content from this activity and a Cagliari DG presentation as well. For all the TL;DR guys (and again, I’m one of you!), here is the Github […]
Tag: Lightning
[Salesforce / Lightning] Of the #Lightning afraid be not!
I was introduced to the Lightning world at its very beginning by Jeff Douglas when I was an active member of the Top Coder community. At that time there were soo few standard components, no way to add a Lightning app / component in a Visualforce Page or easily integrate Lightning with your existing CRM. […]
[Salesforce / Lightning] Geolocation Fun with Location Aware Lightning Components
Summer 16 platform release came up with Automatic Geocodes for Addresses: your Accounts, Contacts and Leads addresses are now automatically geocoded using Data.com. This means that the Latitude, Longitude and Accuracy fields are automatically populated after an address is filled (more details here). Let’s combine this awesome new feature with Lightning Components to create a […]
[Salesforce / Lightning] #Cool Modal Dialog Component
Here we go with another simple UI component, made up with the new Lightning Design System. Here you go a simple Modal dialog box. For those of the TL;DR tribem here is the GitHub repository. The component is ment to be placed in your app in this way: <c:ModalDialog type=”{!v.dialogType}” title=”{!v.dialogTitle}” content=”{!v.dialogContent}” showDialog=”{!v.showDialog}” context=”{!v.dialogContext}” inputValue=”{!v.dialogInputValue}” […]
[Salesforce / Streaming API / On Demand] Streaming API Notification Lightning Component
UPDATE: With Winter ’15 you no longer can use a lightning context Session ID to make REST API calls, this component no longer works. Read Session Privilege Levels. Few weeks ago I asked the community this simple question: The Salesforce Community is awesome and suddenly I had cool answers. I concentrated on the first one: […]
[Salesforce / Lightning] Create your own Lightning Progress Bar
This is a repost from the article I wrote for the Salesforce Developer Blog. Have you ever wanted a progress bar in your linghtning app? I have and so I came up with a simple bootstrap library wrap up. Following the successful Lightning series, I’m going to show you how I’ve made a simple Lightning Component […]
[Salesforce / Trailhead / Winter16] The Lightning fever: follow the trailhead!
Excited about the latest Lightning Experience announcement? Me too but unfortunately it was published when I was on vacations without any internet connection, that’s why I read it days after its release, but I just thought “WOW!”. with great power comes great responsibility, and the guys at Salesforce.com knows it, so they created some cool […]
[Salesforce / Lightning Connect] Lightning Connect Custom Adapters and MongoDB
This is a repost of the article I published on Salesforce Developer Blog. Summer ’15 Platform Release brought us the awesome Lightning Connect Custom Adapters: you can connect to external data sources and use them as custom Salesforce Objects writing custom Apex code. After I read Introducing Lightning Connect Custom Adapters by Lawrence McAlpin, I […]
[Salesforce/ Lightning] inputLookup: the missing component
Or quick tips on how to implement your own inputLookup Salesforce ligthning component This is a repost of the article I published on Salesforce Developer Blog. Salesforce Spring ’15 release brought some brand new components ready to be used in your lightning apps. One of the missing components that could be useful for your apps is […]
[Salesforce / Trailhead] The beginning of your Force.com journey
a{color:red !important;} Few days ago the Salesforce team released 4 new Trailhead modules, and I decided finally to have a look at it…with my style. What is my style? I may say “all in” or “all or nothing” style. I decided to do all the modules and see which topics were covered (and how deeply). […]