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How to create pre populated records in Lightning?
Let’s say that we want to create account records, having a pre-populated description, like this: If you want to do this in a Lightning Component while using lightning:recordEditForm, you could do it the next way: As you can see, I am using some SLDS styles to show a static text for Description field.
Do you have to have prepopulated fields for lightning?
This change applies to Lightning Experience and the Salesforce1 mobile browser app. Users must have create access to prepopulated fields. Errors during saving that are caused by field access limitations do not display error messages.
When do I need to create a pre populated record?
A typical use case when creating records is to populate some fields in advance, and then let the user fill in the rest of required fields. Let’s say that we want to create account records, having a pre-populated description, like this:
When to use event preventDefault in Lightning recordform?
There’s an excellent blog by Peter Knolle that addressed Lightning recordEditForm, but a lot of it seems to be working with recordForm as well. Basically, he shows you how to use event.preventDefault () during the onsubmit action. In this example he overrides the standard submit action and then populated/overwrites particular field values.
How to create a new field in Lightning?
The best way to prepopulate fields in Lightning Experience is to use actions. on the Account object I created an action to create a new opportunity and prepopulate some fields by going to: Setup -> Object Manager -> Account -> Buttons, Links, and Actions -> New Action.
How to create a document in Salesforce Lightning?
This event opens a page to create a record for the specified entityApiName, for example, “Account”, or “myNamespace__MyObject__c”. We recommend implementing lightning:pageReferenceUtils instead and creating the object using lightning:navigation with the standard__object page type.