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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

By : Mohit Shrivatsava
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Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

By: Mohit Shrivatsava

Overview of this book

Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, the new Salesforce Lightning Experience combines three major components: Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components, to provide an enhanced user experience. This book will enable you to quickly create modern, enterprise apps with Lightning Component Framework. You will start by building simple Lightning Components and understanding the Lightning Components architecture. The chapters cover the basics of Lightning Component Framework semantics and syntax, the security features provided by Locker Service, and use of third-party libraries inside Lightning Components. The later chapters focus on debugging, performance tuning, testing using Lightning Testing Services, and how to publish Lightning Components on Salesforce AppExchange.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
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Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing Flows


In this section, we will explore the basic Flow elements that the Flow builder provides. To create a Flow in Salesforce, navigate to Setup | Process Automation | Flows.

A Flow can be composed of one or more of the following elements: 

  • Screen elements allow you to use input and output fields and Lightning Components. The following screenshot shows the input screen and the output display elements:
  • Logical elements include Decision, Loop, Wait, and Assignment. This is shown in the following screenshot:
  • Data elements include the ability to query a single record (Record Lookup), query multiple records (Fast Lookup), insert a record (Record Create), and to create multiple records (Fast Create). Note that elements with a name starting with Fast allow you to work with rows of data. The following screenshot shows the data elements: 
  • The resource palette allows the adding of variables to hold a single row of data, the collection of data, single variable, write formulas, and many more...