Summer 17 – Jitendra Zaa's Blog

Lightning Data Service – Standard Controller for Lightning Components

posted by Jitendra on July 22, 2017July 22, 2017 under category Apex, Salesforce and tagged as best practices, Lightning component, Summer 17 with 10 Comments

Best Practices for Salesforce Lightning Component. How Lightning Data Service can improve Lightning Component performance and solve inconsistent data problem without writing single line of Apex code. Demo source code, image and slides included.

If you have worked on Visualforce and started playing with Lightning Component, you must have identified one important missing feature, which is standard Controller.

Lets assume a scenario, you have two Lightning Components on Account page. One Lightning Component is used to show some fields and other component is used to edit same record.

Problem 1 :

To achieve this, both Lightning components would invoke Apex method separately at the cost of performance, by issuing duplicate server calls. Below image depicts problem, where multiple Lightning component requests same content by making separate server calls.

Lightning Components - Duplicate Server Calls — Lightning Components – Duplicate Server Calls

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Behold Yourself – Summer 17 is here to break legacy Visualforce Navigation code in Lightning Experience

posted by Jitendra on May 8, 2017May 22, 2017 under category Salesforce and tagged as Release, Summer 17 with 6 Comments

In Summer 17, URLFOR method in Visualforce would not work in Lightning Experience if used directly. Even sforce.one API is not fully compatible.

You read it right. Its not Locker Service that may break your code, but Summer 17. If you have legacy Visualforce page, which needs to navigate to Lightning experience and URLFOR is used directly, then chances of getting below error are very high.

Salesforce Summer 17 - URLFOR Not working — Salesforce Summer 17 – URLFOR Not working

In above screenshot, I got MALFORMED_ID : malformed Id error in one of my Visualforce, where I needed to navigate to new Account record. Continue reading “Behold Yourself – Summer 17 is here to break legacy Visualforce Navigation code in Lightning Experience”