The event "$A.get("e.force:showToast")" in Salesforce's Lightning Experience, Salesforce Mobile, and Lightning Community generates a toast message to provide user feedback. It offers various attributes for customization, including title, duration, and message. Messages can be styled differently and auto-dismissed based on specified duration.
The post discusses a lightning component that uses the FullContact API to display a company's profile, such as the logo, overview, founding year, employee count, contact details, social media, addresses, and more, based on a website URL. This data can aid sales and marketing operations. The component's code is provided and can be added to an Account detail page.
The post explains the process of using a Lightning Web Component (LWC) in a custom tab in both the Salesforce mobile app and Lightning Experience. This is possible since Winter '20 release by setting "isExposed" to TRUE in the metadata file and adding "lightning__Tab" to target to enable the LWC in the Custom Lightning Component Tab.
The lightning:buttonStateful represents a toggleable button state similar to those found on social media. It enables dynamic display of different labels and icons. Specific examples and further information can be found on the Lightning Design System and Salesforce Developer websites.
Arun Kumar explains the use of Yandex Translate Text API for translating text content in different languages. This free API blends neural network and statistical approaches for machine translation. The post gives details about the API Request syntax, the query parameters, and showcases example code for translating 'chatter feed'.
The Salesforce lightning component framework offers animated icons that represent various in-progress events. One can utilize these dynamic icons, provided by "lightning:dynamicIcon", in their lightning component. The post also includes example gists and attributes for further references.
The post discusses creating a lighting component for a new record related to Opportunity in Salesforce. The challenge is to auto-populate the Opportunity record, but the "force:hasRecordId" interface is insufficient as it only provides the current record ID. The solution given advises using the "lightning:isUrlAddressable" interface to generate a URL and retrieve the Opportunity record ID.
Salesforce API Explorer offers developers a place to test a variety of Salesforce APIs. Now available for developer preview are APIs including B2C Commerce Developer Sandbox, Einstein Prediction Service Scoring, Einstein Vision and Language, Force.com REST sObject Resources, Marketing Cloud REST, and Salesforce IoT.
Salesforce has released a Local Development Beta for Lightning Web Component (LWC) developers. This will allow construction, running, and testing of the LWC on local machines, eliminating the need for deployment on Salesforce org. Available through the Salesforce CLI plugin, this server will improve developers' productivity due to decreased development and testing time.
Arun Kumar has shared a blog post about a lighting component that utilizes the Chart.js library to create dynamical, user-customizable charts. Available as an open-source tool, Chart.js offers eight chart types and excels in rendering performance. Kumar also offers an installable package for Salesforce instances.
Account hierarchies, which display related accounts, can be viewed on the Salesforce Classic interface's account detail page. In the Lightning Experience, this is accessed via the quick action button. A Lightning component can also be developed to show the account hierarchy link on the detail page.
The post discusses integration between Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamic CRM. It details how to fetch opportunities from MS Dynamic CRM to Salesforce by passing an AccessToken to the getOpportunitiesFromMSDynamic() method. The response, in JSON format, can be parsed to suit the user's needs and applied to Salesforce objects.