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Salesforce Lightning Cookbook

By : Syed Chand Shah
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Salesforce Lightning Cookbook

By: Syed Chand Shah

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">The new Lightning Experience combines three major components—Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components—to enable anyone to quickly and easily create beautiful, modern enterprise apps. If you wish to meet the challenges that Lightning throws at you head-on, then look no further because this practical book will be your faithful companion and ensure that you make best use of the Lightning platform.</span></p> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="description" class="sugar_field"> The book starts by walking you through the three major Lightning Components and helps you enable and configure a Lightning solution. You will explore the art of working with standard components and build a basic layout for the application. Then, you will add more advanced components using the Lightning Framework. Finally, you will also build and migrate reports and dashboards to make your app look more professional. Towards the end of the book, you’ll make use of Design System to work with Salesforce data and lay out the entire page with the components that you’ve built, before integrating Visualforce in your application.</span> </span></p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introduction


In the previous chapter, we enabled the organization using Salesforce Lightning Migration Assistant, prepared the organization with Migration Assistant, prepared the users with Lightning Experience with custom profiles permission sets, and also observed various test cases, as well as the rollout plan, the strategies available, and Optimizer.

In the Lightning configuration, we will see the drag and drop tools development, the point and click tools development, where no coding is required, and we will understand the Lightning apps—how to create them, how to test them, and how to deploy them to the users. We will also see the Lightning page layouts, and how the classic layouts are used in the Lightning page layouts. Then, using the Lightning App Builder, we will see how to select the template, app page template, home page template, record page template, how to create, how to edit the Lightning pages of those templates, and, most importantly, how to assign the Lightning pages to...