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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development Build and test Lightning Components for Salesforce Lightning Experience using Salesforce DX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124677
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Shrivatsava Mohit Shrivatsava
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Preface 1. Introduction to the Lightning Component Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Salesforce DX 3. Lightning Component Building Blocks 4. The Lightning JavaScript API 5. Events in the Lightning Component Framework 6. Lightning Data Service and Base Components 7. Using External JavaScript Libraries in Lightning Components 8. Debugging Lightning Components 9. Performance Tuning Your Lightning Component 10. Taking Lightning Components out of Salesforce Using Lightning Out 11. Lightning Flows 12. Making Components Available for Salesforce Mobile and Communities 13. Lightning Navigation and Lightning Console APIs 14. Unit Testing Lightning Components 15. Publishing Lightning Components on AppExchange 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding custom components in Flow builder


In this section, we will give an example of how you can add a custom Lightning Component in Flows and pass data between the Flow input and the Lightning Component, and vice versa.

he following screenshot shows how you could pass parameters and values from Flow to a Lightning Component:

The last example covered in the previous section, Creating the lead finder app using Flow builder, had the last step for just displaying the ID of the record. How about using a lightning screen at the end of the Flow, where the user can edit more fields, based on the page layout set by the system administrator?

To achieve this, let's build a custom Lightning Component that us comprised of recordForm to add editing capabilities. For more information on recordForm, go to https://developer.Salesforce.com/docs/component-library/bundle/lightning:recordForm/documentation.

To make your component available for the Flow screen, the component needs to implement , lightning:availableForFlowscreens...

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