Salesforce1 Mobile App Developer Guide

Introduction
About This Book
Setting Up Your Work Environment
Salesforce1 Administration
Developing for Salesforce1
Welcome to Salesforce App Cloud 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
Calling Quick Actions from the API
Extending the User Interface with Lightning Pages
What Is a Lightning Page?
Lightning Pages: The Big Picture
Before We Begin: Download the Deliveries App
Creating a Lightning Page
Assigning Quick Actions to A Lightning Page
Deploying a Lightning Page
About Lightning Page Tabs
Making Your Lightning Page Available in Salesforce1
Tell Me More: Lightning Pages
Development Guidelines and Best Practices
Learning More
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Lightning Pages: The Big Picture

It’s not enough to just create the XML for the Lightning Page. After you create it, you’ve got to deploy it to your organization, configure the page, and get it into Salesforce1. Here’s an overview of the steps from beginning to end:

  1. Before creating your page, determine which components you want to include and the global actions your users need.
  2. Create the Lightning Page XML file.
  3. Add actions to your page.
    You can assign specific global actions to your Lightning Page in the XML for the page. If you don’t define specific actions in the XML, the action bar won’t appear on the page.
  4. Deploy the Lightning Page into your development organization.
  5. Create a Lightning Page custom tab.
  6. Add your Lightning Page tab to the Salesforce1 navigation menu.

We’ll walk through all these tasks, starting with step 2, in this chapter. But before we can get started, we need to download the custom Deliveries app that the delivery drivers have been using.