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Change Data Capture - Asynchronous Trigger Processing

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In Salesforce there are multiple ways of processing data Asynchronously using " Batch Apex ", " Schedule Apex ", " Queueable Apex ", and " Future Method ". In Summer '19 release, there is another feature available called " Asynchronous Apex Triggers " that can process data Asynchronously with the help " Change Data Capture ". With Change Data Capture enabled for any specific object (Custom and Standard) in Salesforce, it begins publishing events every time when a record is created or updated or deleted or undeleted. Change Data Capture supports all custom objects and for list of supported standard object, here is the Link . Change Data Capture Setup: In order to enable Objects for receiving change notifications, navigate to Setup-->Integrations-->Change Data Capture, select object to add and click Save. Asynchronous Apex Trigger: Once Change Data Capture is enabled on an object, events are published and ...

Lightning Web Components (New Programming model for building Lightning Components)

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Salesforce has recently introduced a new developmental model for building Lightning Components called Lightning Web Components which can coexist and interoperate with the original Aura Programming model, and deliver unparalleled performance! In this blog post, we are going to build a basic Lightning Web Component using VS Code IDE with Salesforce CLI prerelease sfdx plugin. Prior to that for this demo I have already signed up for a free 'Spring '19 - Pre-Release' org and upgraded my SFDX plugin to pre-release version by running below command in my Terminal (This step is required only until February 9th, 2019). "sfdx plugins:install salesforcedx@pre-release" Next we need to add the "Lightning Web Components" extension for VS Code. In my VS code IDE, once I create my project and authorize my pre-release org now I should see a new folder called 'lwc' created under force-app-->main-->default folder! Now go ahead and...

Callable Interface in Salesforce Apex

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With Winter '19 release new Callable Interface has been introduced, which helps in calling methods dynamically between Apex classes or triggers, even for code that works in separate packages. Class has to implement "Callable" interface along with a method "call(String action, Map args)" which has a return type of Object. Below is the sample Apex code using callable interface using. CallableApexTest.apx: /* * Purpose: To test new Callable Interface * Date: OCT302018 */ public class CallableTest2 implements Callable { // Method to return month of the year Integer method1(Date d) { Integer month = d . month(); return month; } // Method to return boolean if passed integer is same as current month Boolean method2(Integer mnth) { if (method1(System . today()) == mnth) { return true; } else { return false; ...

Using JavaScript Promises in Lightning Components

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With JavaScript being a single threaded process by nature, using "JavaScript Promises" it makes JavaScript to be a multithreaded or in other words it is a process of making Asynchronous calls using JavaScript. JavaScript Promises is a native JavaScript functionality that can be used in Lightning Components. Salesforce recommends using ECMAScript 6 (ES6, often referred to as “Harmony”) which is a standard script language. In case if the browser doesn’t provide a native version, the framework uses a polyfill so that promises work in all browsers supported for Lightning Experience. Basic Syntax for Promises: var promise = return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) { setTimeout(resolve, 100 , 'foo' ); }); Promise can return either resolve (If the result is success) and reject (If the result is fail). Optionally there is one more status called pending. Now let's go ahead and build a simple Lightning Component that will output some user information like...

Using jQuery in Lightning Components to Implement Dragging/Sorting

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jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library, which makes it easy to use JavaScript. Using jQuery we can build some rich UI in our Lightning Components. In order to use jQuery in Lightning Components, we first need to upload jQuery related files to Static Resource. Below are the links for downloading jQuery/jQuery UI jQuery Download Link jQuery UI Download Link Once we have the files downloaded, we upload them to Static Resource using Setup-->Custom Code-->Lightning Components-->Static Resource Once we have the files uploaded to the Static Resource, we can use ltng:require tag to refer those jQuery files in our Lightning Components at the time of component loading. Below I have a sample component bundle (Component/Controller/Style) to display couple of "div" sections to display an Image that can be dragged to a droppable area and another section to display few rows that can be sorted using jQuery function. jQueryComp.cmp: This is the component code...

Lightning Component for Custom Lightning Templates

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Lightning App Builder provides flexibility to create custom Lightning pages which can be used in opposite of standard Lightning pages. Even though every standard Lightning page is associated with a default template component, Custom Lightning page template components are useful when you want a customized template for your business needs. Custom Lightning pages can be created for..... App Page - When you want to create separate pages for each app. Home Page - When you want to create separate pages to override the standard home page. Record Page - When you want to create pages on record level for different objects. In order to create custom Lightning Templates for App/Home/Record pages, it is required to implement below interface for each. lightning:appHomeTemplate lightning:homeTemplate lightning:recordHomeTemplate Note** Each template component should implement only ONE template interface. Template components shouldn’t implement any other type of interface, such ...