I was given a task to create a simple API that would fetch jobs from our new system Workday. This API would accept a few parameters, and spit out the relevant jobs from it. My thoughts are always – if I was to build something, might as well learn something new in the process. I’ve […]
Author: Michael Soriano
Repeating Inputs in Salesforce Lightning Components
What we’re building: An input field that can be duplicated (repeated) as part of a form. This is particularly useful when you want to capture information that you want to separate in different lines, and you don’t really want to use a textarea. This way, we’re forcing our user’s to enter a value per input. […]
Let’s build a Map Application using Leaflet and Lightning Components
Salesforce’s Lightning component system is quite a robust framework where you can build full pledged single-page applications in a heartbeat. I especially like it’s built-in SLDS (styles), so all you have to really think about is the logic of your application. In this walk trough, we’re building a real life map application with Lightning. We’re […]
How to Build a Company Timeline using Bootstrap and WordPess REST API
So our Company wanted to build a Timeline. One that shows our projects throughout the years, decades even. One that is sleek, modern and responsive. We’re already running WordPress, and have Bootstrap installed. So this shouldn’t be too bad. It turns out – it was a pretty fun project to build. Our in house designers […]
Build a Basic Page with Salesforce Data using Heroku Connect and NodeJS
This is a tutorial on how to fetch Salesforce Data from an external NodeJS application. To be more specific, we’re grabbing records in a SF custom object via Heroku Connect. Note that Heroku Connect utilizes an internal Postgres Database, to keep a “replica” of the data in Salesforce. Heroku Connect does a “poll” of this […]
Let’s Build an AutoSuggest Lightning Component with Google Places API
I had the challenge of building an input form that brings up a list of cities as you type. One that has the coordinates of each city – because I’ll need to enter that into a map. An “auto-suggest” or “auto-complete” city input – inside a custom form inside Salesforce. It turns out, that it […]