Lightning Components Developer’s Guide

Getting Started
Introduction
Quick Start
Before You Begin
Create a Standalone Lightning App
Optional: Install the Expense Tracker App
Create an Expense Object
Step 1: Create A Static Mockup
Step 2: Create A Component for User Input
Step 3: Load the Expense Data
Step 4: Create a Nested Component
Step 5: Enable Input for New Expenses
Step 6: Make the App Interactive With Events
Summary
Create a Component for Salesforce1
Creating Components
Communicating with Events
Creating Apps
Debugging
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Create an Expense Object

Create an expense object to store your expense records and data for the app.
You’ll need to create this object if you’re following the tutorial at Create a Standalone Lightning App.
  1. From Setup, click Create | Objects.
  2. Click New Custom Object.
  3. Fill in the custom object definition.
    • For the Label, enter Expense.
    • For the Plural Label, enter Expenses
  4. Click Save to finish creating your new object. The Expense detail page is displayed.

    If you’re using a namespace prefix, you might see namespace__Expense__c instead of Expense__c.

    Note

  5. On the Expense detail page, add the following custom fields.
    Field Type Field Label
    Number(16, 2) Amount
    Text (20) Client
    Date/Time Date
    Checkbox Reimbursed?

    When you finish creating the custom object, your Expense definition detail page should look similar to this.

    The expense object contains multiple custom fields
  6. Create a custom object tab to display your expense records.
    1. From Setup, click Create | Tabs.
    2. In the Custom Object Tabs related list, click New to launch the New Custom Tab wizard.
      • For the Object, select Expense.
      • For the Tab Style, click the lookup icon and select the Credit Card icon.
    3. Accept the remaining defaults and click Next.
    4. Click Next and Save to finish creating the tab.
      You should now see a tab for your Expenses at the top of the screen.
  7. Create a few expense records.
    1. Click the Expenses tab and click New.
    2. Enter the values for these fields and repeat for the second record.
      Expense Name Amount Client Date Reimbursed?
      Lunch 21 4/1/2015 12:00 PM Unchecked
      Dinner 70 ABC Co. 3/30/2015 7:00 PM Checked