Build custom user interfaces for your Salesforce data with the UI API
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This document outlines forward-looking statements by Salesforce.com, highlighting the risks and uncertainties associated with their projections related to product availability, growth, and financial performance. It addresses the assumptions behind these statements and recommends reviewing their annual and quarterly reports for more information. The document also discusses the features of the Lightning Platform and User Interface API, including their benefits, use cases, and limitations.
Build custom user interfaces for your Salesforce data with the UI API
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- 5. Agenda ● Lightning Platform and the advent of User Interface API ● Benefits and uses of the UI API ● Demo ● Roadmap ● Q&A
- 6. Lightning: One Platform, One Experience. Experience • Framework • Ecosystem
- 7. Salesforce Platform for Sales, Service, Communities and Force
- 8. Tools to help you create custom UI easier User Interface API Respond to metadata changes, e.g., Layouts, Pick lists, FLS, Sharing, and other declarative functions Lightning Data Service Provide JavaScript API and caching for record CRUD in your Lightning component — without requiring APEX
- 9. Smart payloads metadata + data Business logic clone and default values Form Factors mobile, tablet, desktop FLS and Sharing built-in Localization and Language Support Uses same org API limits User Interface API: Benefits
- 10. Demo React Native and Node.js Record Viewer apps: http://sforce.co/2AsIb7P User Interface API documentation: http://sforce.co/2yfSw0O
- 11. When to use the User Interface API ● What they’re for ● Responsive web pages with custom branding ● Native mobile apps with custom look-and-feel ● UI that reflects declarative metadata updates
- 12. When to use the User Interface API ● What they’re not for ● System integration, e.g. data uploads or extraction ● Building Lightning Components -- use force:recordData and other base components instead ● Apps that don’t get updated ● no support after 3 years (10 versions)
- 13. User Interface API: GA Endpoints ● Records ● Layouts and Object metadata ● Create, Edit, View modes ● Clone and default values ● Picklists and dependent picklists ● Child Relationships (Junction Lists) ● Binary uploads (i.e. Files)
- 14. User Interface API: GA Endpoints ● Actions ● List of Actions with metadata ● Navigation ● Favorites ● Search ● Dependent Lookups
- 15. Future User Interface API: GA Endpoints ETag Invalidation Headers List of Supported Standard Objects Dependent Picklist Graph List-View records List-View metadata Spring ‘18
- 17. Q & A Try Trailhead: trailhead.salesforce.com Join the conversation: @salesforcedevs