You're reading from Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition A must-read guide to help you architect and deliver packaged applications for enterprise needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804619773

Length 712 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Solution Architecture

Author (1):

Andrew Fawcett

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development

2. Building and Publishing Your Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Leveraging Platform Features

4. Application Storage

5. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

6. Part II: Backend Logic Patterns

7. Application Service Layer

8. Application Domain Layer

9. Application Selector Layer

10. Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services

11. Part III: Developing the Frontend

12. Building User Interfaces

13. User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework

14. Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application

15. Providing Integration and Extensibility

16. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

17. Unit Testing

18. Source Control and Continuous Integration

19. Integrating with External Services

20. Adding AI with Einstein

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Integrating with Lightning Flow

Lightning Flow is a tool that users can use to build interactive wizard-style user experiences. The tool, much like Lightning App Builder, is a drag-and-drop declarative tool that does not require coding skills. However, it has its limitations, as you can imagine, in terms of the sophistication of the user interface elements it supports.

In order to solve this problem, Salesforce has enhanced this tool to support using Lightning components. In the following screenshot, we can see how the Race Results component is being used as part of a Flow to capture Race Feedback. The Flow contains a variable containing the record ID that is passed to the component, as shown on the right:

Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated

Figure 10.21: Record ID displayed when building a Flow

The following screenshot shows the final Lightning Flow, which has been connected to a Lightning Action button on the Race object (the platform automatically passes in the record ID as a Flow variable). By exposing...