While building Lightning Web Component (LWC) in one of my project, there was a business case where I need to disable a button conditionally. I know that we need to use template property to find the element and disable it. But like any developer, I GOOGLED it first, and found that there was no results on this. Hence I decided to explore it myself and finally solved it. So just to make sure that it’s available online for others while searching for solution, I am blogging about it today. Please find below my LWC component for your reference. disableButton.html <template> < ..read more

Hello Ohana!! Hope you all are doing well. I started blogging so that I can share my experiences and tech tips with others who need help with your projects. And I always like to go back and check statistics to see how am I faring in this. So I found that my blog Adding Lightning Components to Public Sites using Lightning Out!!! had the maximum number of views, thanks you to all. So may be I thoughts it’s time to upgate it and teach you all how to add LWC components to public sites. So I am taking the same example here as in my old blog, which means I am considering that you alread ..read more

Salesforce has been really working hard to get us a local development tool for long time. We heard about this during Trailhead ’19 and now it’s officialy released. This first release of Local Development for Lightning Platform is BETA, and may contain bugs and some missing features, so hold on to your first impressions. Assumption I am assuming the below before we get started: You know about LWC Development SFDX CLI and Node.js is installed and they are in their respective latest versions. You know how to setup SFDX project, authorise to your developer org, and create scratch orgs ..read more

So finally Salesforce is here with new release and some amazing new features. And as usual, I am starting my series of posts on some of my favorite features from Winter ’20 release. To start with, let’s talk about what’s there new for Salesforce Community. Use Updated Templates To take advantage of the latest features in communites, we need to use the latest templates. So go ahead and update your template today. This is only applicable if you have created your community before Summer ’19. Go to your community builder, and you will find a flag on your settings icon. Go to your c ..read more

In my previous blog, I spoke about adding a Floating Prompt as a In-App Guidance. Let’s recap the use cases that we are trying to solve uing In-App Guidance. To guide the users on how to create a new Case on Case Record List page. (We have solved this in my previous blog.)Show a message on Home Screen about Summer ’19 Release.Let’s find a solution for the second use case. Go to Setup. Search fo In-App Guidance in Quick Find and click In-App Guidance. On top right corner, click App Prompt. In the next screen, click Open Authoring Bar. The Prompt Authoring bar will be opened in a ..read more

I am sure everyone would have encountered this situation where you need some sort of message to pop-up on screen which will guide the user on what needs to be done on a perticular screen. I have even seen scenarios where we have custom build such screens. Well Salesforce has given a solution to this by introducing In-App Guidance in Summer ’19. Using In-App Guidance, you can create prompts to train new users, introduce new features/changes in your application, or even prompt about your maintanenance window. Not just that, you can make users do some action on the prompt. These promp ..read more

Continoution to my previous blog. Now let’s see my favourite release features for Lightning Experience Guide Your Users using In-App Guidance With In-App Guidance, you can create in-app guidance or prompt with your own content. Add prompts to onboard and train users, highlight configuration changes and news, introduce new features, and do more. Also, you can decide the audience for the prompt. Look out for a detailed blog from here on this. Enhanced Related List Salesforce has taken Related List to next level, and will release a more Enhanced Related List. Here, you can show ..read more

Continoution to my previous blog. Today, I am going to talk about my favourite features for Lightning Platform. More Container Support for Lightning Web Component While creating custom Lightning Web Components (LWC), now you can implement them in more places like Visualforce, Lightning Out, Stand-alone apps. Also, you can use them during email integrations using Gmail or Outlook by using the target lighnting__Inbox. Long Running Callouts using Continuations By using Continuation class in apex, you can make a long-running request to external web services from an Aura component o ..read more

Summer ’19 is already live for preview and today I am sharing some of my favourite features for Salesforce Community. Here we go. ExperienceBundle (Developer Preview) Salesforce has introduced a new metadatatype called ExperienceBundle in this release. Currently available only in Developer Orgs, all community builder settings and site components (pages, branding set, and themes) would be available in your development tool as human-reasable, text-based editable JSON file. This will give us more control while deploying communities during deployment. In your editor, all Lightning Communi ..read more

Hello folks, I AM BACK!!! Hope you all are doing good. I am here to talk about some of my favorite features that have been released as part of Spring ’19 upgrade in Salesforce. You can get access to other features by clicking here. So let’s get started!!! Pinning Your Default List View In my experince with Lighting projects, the most common issue that I have encountered was not able to set your default list view. Everytime when you load a tab, it always show you the Recently Viewed items. From Spring ’19, you can now set your favorite list view as default my pinning the list view ..read more