There will be a scenario where you need to identify if Enter is presses or any special character is pressed. Below code will demonstrate how to identify a keypress code. In Lightning Web Component.
For this scenario we need to add a span section with onkeypress event above the input text field. And call a JS method. Something like this.
It is always a good practice to display a toast message so that users are aware of what is happening in system. A toast message can be show to user when you want to show a Success message or an Error message or a Warning message. Toast message is simple to write and very effective.
In this blog we will see all 3 ways in which we can display a toast message. A toast can also simply provide information. To display a toast notification in Lightning Experience or Lightning communities, import ShowToastEvent from the lightning/platformShowToastEvent module.
When you dispatch an event to show the toast message you need to know few properties that are used in toast message.
There will be ample scenarios where a developer must customize things in salesforce to meet the business requirement. Customization in Lightning Web Component (LWC) can be done in multiple ways based on requirement. One is using lightning-record-edit-form and lightning-record-form. With these developers will have very minimal control over the component. Another way is by calling a server-side method. With this, developers will have good control over the component and can achieve complex business requirement. In this blog we will see how we can call a server Apex Method with parameters from an LWC JavaScript(.JS) file.
There are few things to note when you want to call an apex method.
Sales reps depend on 2 important tools one is CRM to store information related to opportunities and leads and second is emails to communicate with contacts. CRM and Email are 2 different applications and sometimes it is annoying to toggle between apps to create records in salesforce when user is busy following up with multiple clients or customers at a time viz emails. It is also important to keep track of all interactions, activities and events into Salesforce.
The “Salesforce Lightning for Outlook” add-in can solve this problem. This plugin will give user a small side window panel, where user can create records in salesforce without having to login to salesforce separately in a browser. This will be like mobile version of salesforce in outlook.
Salesforce Lightning For Outlook Add-On search result.
Once you install the plugin, you need to login to either sandbox instance or Production Instance. You can create records of almost all objects. If you want a specific record type record to be created, you can create Global Actions for the same. This is a standard feature of salesforce.
There will be some scenarios where you may need to customize things as per business scenarios. And to add the custom-built logic, sometimes you need to build a custom solution either in Lightning Aura Component or in Lightning Web Component. But how to add the custom build module in the side panel in your outlook or Gmail plugin, we will see that in this post.
Akhil Kulkarni 