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How does URL hacking work in lightning experience?
In Brian’s approach, he cleverly used a flow’s URL in a custom button so that he could have a URL to pass parameters to just like the “URL Hacking” days in Classic experience to open a new record form with pre-populated field values.
Are there any changes to filter reports in Lightning?
Filter Reports via URL Parameters in Lightning Experience will continue to work as it is supported by the Reports functionality. More details can be found in the Spring ’17 Release Notes. Console URLs will not be affected by this change for Spring release.
How does the Lightning formattedurl component work?
A lightning:formattedUrl component displays a URL using an anchor tag with an href attribute. The value can be a relative or absolute URL. An absolute URL uses a protocol like http://, https://, and ftp://, followed by the domain name and path. The component renders the link using the http:// protocol by default.
When to use a hyperlink in Lightning component?
Displays a URL as a hyperlink. This component requires API version 41.0 and later. A lightning:formattedUrl component displays a URL using an anchor tag with an href attribute. The value can be a relative or absolute URL.
Can you use url hacks in Salesforce Lightning?
The old URL Hacks only function in Salesforce Classic, and had to be replaced by Custom Actions when you transitioned to the Lightning Experience. The old URL Hacks also used the field Ids (yuck) rather than API names, which are much easier to read if you ever need to make a change to your existing button.
Where do I find the Lightning button in Salesforce?
I want the button to be available from the Account (on a Business Account Page Layout), and I want it to prepopulate the Owner, Lead Source, and Mailing Address fields, as well as relate the Contact to the Account.
How to save a record in lightning experience?
Clicking save will navigate you to the new record, that’s acceptable, but clicking cancel will leave the user on a page that only has the top navigation tabs but no body content. Womp, womp… Please vote for these ideas for force:recordCreate event to expose callbacks to customize the modal dialog button behavior:
What to do when url hates a space?
URL HATES spaces: if you’re setting a static value, use a plus (+) instead of a space, and if you’re dynamically populating don’t forget to add {!URLENCODE ()} to your button to have it formatted correctly.