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

Making components customizable

The components included in this chapter will appear in Lightning App Builder and are thus available for the developer and consumers of the package to drag and drop onto pages. The following screenshot shows how the components in this chapter appear in Lightning App Builder:

Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated

Figure 10.16: Components in Lightning App Builder

To further expose components and properties to Lightning tools such as Lightning App Builder, Lightning Community Builder, and Lightning Flow, you must reference them and their properties in your component metadata file.

Exposing parts of your application’s user interface as components in these tools is very powerful as it lets your other developers and administrators effectively build their own pages and experiences using the platform’s tools if needed. An example of configuring this type of access is shown in the following component metadata. This example is from race.js-meta.xml, which exposes the...