Let’s build something every web application needs in their results page: Pagination (aka Paging). This technique is necessary so we don’t bombard our users with all the items in our result page. Instead, we show them in “chunks” or “sets” of results. This is a very simplistic example – all we’re doing is a set […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’ve decided to do some write up on Salesforce – especially Lightning development. Lightning is basically Salesforce’s proprietary JavaScript and CSS Framework bundled into one. It’s a component-based system, mobile friendly, with the power of a server side language (Apex), just in case you need it. In the following tutorials, you might see a “helper.callServer()” […]