Tag: Lightning Actions

New Customizing Salesforce with Lightning Components Course Released

~ Sara Morgan ~ 7 Comments

SecondCourse.pngI am proud to announce that yesterday my new course for Pluralsight titled, “Customizing Salesforce with Lightning Components: Getting Started” was released.

Here is the long description:

In this course, you’ll learn how to easily customize Salesforce with the new Lightning Component framework, which includes all the tools and technologies needed to build responsive and efficient components for any device. First, you’ll cover the basics of building Lightning Components, and how to work with data using built-in components such as the Lightning Data Service. Next, you’ll explore Lightning alternatives for the traditional JavaScript buttons that so many orgs have now. Finally, you’ll learn about the most efficient way to migrate from Visualforce to Lightning. Although, many things have changed during the evolution of the Lightning Component framework, don’t worry, you’ll learn what you need to know to get up to “lightning” speed. By the end of this course, you’ll be well on your journey towards customizing your org with Lightning components.

Specific topics I cover are:

  • Base Lightning Components
  • Lightning Data Service
  • Extending SLDS
  • Lightning Actions
  • Migrating from Visualforce to Lightning

Hope you like the course. I worked really hard on it, dedicating every weekend for the past 7 months. I wanted each module to be special and I hope my efforts show.

If you see the course, I would be really interested in your feedback – good or negative. All of it helps me to create better courses.

Winter 17: Replacing JavaScript Buttons With Lightning Actions

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Winter 17 hasJS introduced a whole bunch of new enhancements for Lightning and I will be blogging about a lot of them in the next few weeks, but one of my favorites is the new Lightning Actions that provide the ability to replace all those JavaScript buttons you may have littered about your org.

Ok, now anyone that has an org with more than one JavaScript button, just read that last statementdreamstime_xl_25648715 and probably thought, “Say what? I have to replace JavaScript buttons with something new? What about just migrating the existing buttons to Lightning?”

Can’t do it.

Why? Well, in three words, “Big Security Concerns”

Yep. the kind that can bring an org to it’s knees and one that also can’t be resolved by providing some simple migration tool that converts existing buttons into Lightning actions automagically.

The bad news here is that you are going to have to do some real work to get all those buttons converted into Lightning actions. But, the good news is that once you do it, you will probably be very happy that you did and your org will certainly be more secure as a result.

And to help you get to that point, the Salesforce development group has started a new blog series titled, “JavaScript Buttons, Lightning and You“. This three part series will step you through what you need to know to move towards Lightning Actions. I also plan to cover this very topic as part of the new Lightning course I am working on (more on that later).

So, take some time to check out the new blog series and learn why you might be better off starting your transition to Lightning by first converting all those buttons to actions.

And stay tuned for more info about my upcoming Pluralsight course.