The What, Why, and Hows of Lightning Web Components. What are Lightning Web Components? Salesforce introduced Lightning Web Components (LWC) in it’s latest Spring 19 release. Lightning web components are custom HTML elements built using HTML and modern JavaScript. It is based on Web Standard. It leverages custom elements, templates, shadow DOM, decorators, modules, and …
Spring 19 Release Highlights
January Spring 19 Release Highlights - Lightning Developer Week 2019
A Tip A Day #31 – Lightning Data Service
This post is a part of the daily blog series A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning! Day #31 - Lightning Data Service If you are looking for SalesforceDX and Migration to SalesforceDX, it is here Read all other tips of the blog series here - A Tip A Day, daily dosage of learning!
Dreamforce 2017 Highlights
For the last 4 years at Dreamforce, Salesforce has announced at least 1 brand new product - Chatter, Salesforce1, Lightning, Einstein! But this year, I'm sure you haven't heard a "new product name" so far. Yes, no new "product name" but Salesforce did announce a slew of new awesome products - all focused on Personalization …
Decoding Trailhead Admin-Beginner Modules
Where to get started in Salesforce? I'm new to this ecosystem, how to learn Salesforce? What is the best way to switch to Salesforce from other technologies? People quite frequently post these kind of questions in Salesforce forums and the most common response to all these questions is an incomplete, one-line answer "Check Trailhead"! Though the answer is right, …
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Spring 17 Release – Lightning Experience Highlights
Salesforce's Spring 17 release date in sandboxes is fast approaching and Salesforce has given us the Release Notes. Here in this blog post, I would like to highlight the updates this release (of 450+ pages) brings to Salesforce specifically to "Lightning Experience". To set up Einstein & its Features, learn here (screenshots added). For Lightning App Builder specific updates in …
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Spring 17 Reports & Dashboards Updates in Lightning Experience
In this post, I'm highlighting all the new features introduced into Reports & Dashboards specially for Lightning Experience with Spring 17 release. There are quite a few updates to Lightning though few are old and existing in Classic Salesforce. To set up Einstein & its Features, learn here (screenshots added). Read the highlights from All of the Spring 17 updates …
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Spring 17 Release – Lightning App Builder Updates
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017 In this post, I will highlight all the new features introduced into Lightning App Builder with Spring 17 release. To set up Einstein & its Features, learn here (screenshots added). Read the highlights from All of the Spring 17 updates here. What's new in Reports & Dashboards in Lightning Experience this Spring 17, …
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Sales Cloud Einstein – Setup and Features
Salesforce introduced "Sales Cloud Einstein" License to support Artificial Intelligent features it released this year. When you purchase Sales Cloud Einstein, Salesforce installs two packages in your org, SalesforceIQ Cloud and Sales Insights. Each package adds an associated integration user and profile. Salesforce uses these entities to provide "Insights" to your org. How it works? To …
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Lightning Navigation Menu – Change is Coming
If you are using Lightning Experience in your Salesforce instances, then by now you must be familiar with this view, the navigation menu on your left side. The menu that holds all your tabs and helps in navigating you to different objects. Now that is changing! Yes, the vertical navigation menu is changing. It will no …
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Dreamforce Wrap Up 2015!
Attended Dreamforce this year, my first time in forever and its been an awesome experience with great learning. Travelled all the way from Singapore to San Francisco and Dreamforce didn't disappoint a bit. This time Dreamforce is bigger than before with whopping 1,70,000 user registrations and 1600+ sessions and some rock entertainment in the Dreamfest (the Dreamforce …
New UI for Salesforce
Salesforce.com has a completely redesigned version of its core CRM product. The new version has been designed with a cleaner, more modern looking interface. Here's the previous UI, now being referred to as Classic Salesforce UI And here's the switch to Lightning Experience The new version uses a navigation bar approach, abandoning the tabbed interface of …
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