Need Help Converting Your Classic JavaScript Buttons to Quick Actions?

In last weeks Lightning Keynote for TrailheaDX, Eric Jacobsen told everyone that an analysis done by his group showed that there are over 2 Million Javascript buttons in Salesforce Classic today.

WOW!!! That’s a lot of buttons that still need to be converted to Lightning Quick Actions.

This has been a not so fun task lingering over many Salesforce developer heads for quite some time. I imagine this one issue has been the main reason many Salesforce orgs have been hesitant to fully adopt Lightning.

So now my question to you is, “Do you think you need help converting your JavaScript buttons to Quick Actions?”

If you answered yes, then the good news is that the help is coming. Eric announced in that very same keynote that a new tool called the Lightning Configuration Converter will be available in late Spring 18.

The new tool will help you to identify those JS buttons that you still need to convert and then for some of them, will give you a simple way to convert them by using a single click. Yep! A single click!!!

So that was the good news and now here is the bad news.  The bad news is that the tool is not quite available yet and even when it is, they are estimating that it will only convert about 20% of your buttons at first. But, it sounds like that number will possibly go up as time goes on. And let’s face it, 20% is still a lot better than 0%. So, I still think this a huge win for the Salesforce development community.

And here is some more good news. Right now what is available is a GitHub repo that contains 9 examples of commonly used JavaScript buttons and the code needed to convert those to Lightning Quick Actions. This covers some of the most common and sometimes complex scenarios where JS buttons are used, such as:

• Showing a Dialogue
• Redirecting to a URL conditionally
• Performing Mass Updates

So check out the repo and wait for more news about the release of the new Lightning Configuration Converter.

Happy Converting…