Contents
- 1 How do you communicate between two LWC components?
- 2 Can lightning Web components be used in communities?
- 3 How do you navigate to community page in lightning component?
- 4 How do you add custom components to lightning community?
- 5 How do I navigate to a VF page in LWC?
- 6 How to navigate from one LWC to another LWC?
- 7 How to navigate from one LWC to another in Salesforce?
How do you communicate between two LWC components?
You can use pubsub library or lightning message service to communicate between components that are not in same DOM hierarchy. These methods can be used to communicate between sibling components in an outer lwc component or between to lwc components that are dropped separately in lightning app builder.
Can lightning Web components be used in communities?
Lightning Web Components can coexist on a page in Communities with an Aura component. You can also create an Aura component that includes Lightning Web Components.
Navigating to a Page in Lightning Community using Custom Lightning Component
- This is component 1.
- Copy content from above code sample to Testapp.app file.
- Navigate to “yourOrgBaseUrl/c/TestApp.app” to see the result.
How do you communicate two components who are not in the same dom?
There are two ways to communicate between components that aren’t in the same DOM tree. Use Lightning message service ( lightning/messageService ), or use a singleton library that follows the publish-subscribe pattern.
How do you pass data between LWC components?
We can Flow the data between components in Two way datasend: This is public property. @api decorator is making the property available to be set via an attribute (same name) on component instantiation. Public methods are methods annotated with the @api decorator.
How do you add custom components to lightning community?
Configuring communities
- Navigate to Setup > App Setup > Customize > Communities > All communities.
- Click New Communities.
- Select Customer Service (Napili).
- Click Get Started.
- In the Name field, enter a name for the community.
- Click Create.
- Click Administration.
- Click Activate Community.
We eventually found a way to do this, i.e. invoke a Visualforce page with query parameters from an LWC, though it was a lot more complex:
- Create a cacheable, Aura Enabled Apex method that returns an object holding the Page.
- Have the LWC invoke this method using a wire.
- Have the LWC use the returned URL value:
1. Using Container Component Create a parent LWC component that will be containing both the lwc components and showing one of the components at a time. On clicking of the button, dispatch a custom event to navigate between the components. On receiving the custom event in the container component, hide the visible component and show another.
How does the LWC component work in Lightning?
Lightning component uses forceCommunity:navigationMenuBase extension to create customized navigation for the community templates. It has v.menuItems variable that holds the menu items created in the navigation. But the equivalent extension is not available for the LWC component yet.
How to use lwcnavigation in Lightning communities?
Now, in the lwcNavigation component created in LWC, we need to have an api variable menuItems. Also, we need an event that triggers back to the Aura Component – Navigation.cmp to trigger the navigation, since navigate method is still available only for aura. navigateToMenu is the method that can be called from the menu item iterator in the LWC.
On clicking of the button, dispatch a custom event to navigate between the components. On receiving the custom event in the container component, hide the visible component and show another. 2. Making use of LWC routes.