Salesforce1 Mobile App Developer Guide

Introduction
About This Book
Setting Up Your Work Environment
Salesforce1 Administration
Developing for Salesforce1
Welcome to Salesforce1 Platform Development
Designing Mobile-First User Interfaces
Extending Salesforce1 with Visualforce Pages
Adding Functionality with Visualforce Custom Actions
Integrating Your Web Applications in Salesforce1 with Force.com Canvas
About Force.com Canvas
Extending Salesforce1 with Canvas Custom Actions
Try It Out: Clone the Shipify Web Application
Create the Shipify Canvas App
Configure Who Can Access the Shipify Canvas App
Configure the Heroku Environment Variables
Add the Action to the Global Publisher Layout
Test Out the Canvas Custom Action
Tell Me More: Get Context in your Canvas App
Extending Salesforce1 with Canvas Apps in the Feed
Calling Quick Actions from the API
Extending the User Interface with Lightning Pages
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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Configure the Heroku Environment Variables

Now that we’ve created the canvas app, we need to set up an environment variable for the consumer secret.
  1. From Setup, click Create | Apps.
  2. In the Connected Apps related list, click Shipify.
  3. Next to the Consumer Secret field, click the link Click to reveal.
    Canvas app consumer secret
  4. Copy the consumer secret.
  5. Open a command window, navigate to the Shipify-Node-App directory, and enter this command to create the environment variable: heroku config:add APP_SECRET='Your_Consumer_Secret'
    If you’re working from a Windows computer, you may need to replace the single quotes with double quotes (").
  6. Enter this command: heroku config:add RUNNING_ON_HEROKU='true'
    This specifies that the application is running on Heroku. This is helpful for testing so you don’t need to re-deploy every time you make a change. If you’re working from a Windows computer, you may need to replace the single quotes with double quotes (").
  7. Enter this command to deploy the app to Heroku: git push heroku master
    If the process completes successfully, you’ll see something like this:

    If you receive a “permission denied” error message, you may need to set up your SSH key and add it to Heroku. See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/keys.

You can quickly test that the canvas app is working in the full Salesforce site by clicking the Chatter tab. Click the Shipify link on the left, and you’ll see the Heroku application appear right in Salesforce and display a list of open orders, including the one you created in the previous chapter. Now we’ll add the canvas custom action to the publisher layout so our users can see it.