Lightning Components Developer Guide
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Event Reference
Use out-of-the-box events to enable component interaction within Lightning Experience or the Salesforce app, or
within your Lightning components. For
example, these events enable your components to open a record create or edit page, or navigate
to a record.
The reference documentation is available in the Component Library at the
following links.
- As an unauthenticated experience at developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library
- As an authenticated experience at https://<myDomain>.lightning.force.com/componentReference/suite.app, where <myDomain> is the name of your custom Salesforce domain
Events belong to different namespaces, including:
- force
- Provides events that are handled by Lightning Experience and the Salesforce app.
- forceChatter
- Provides events that are handled by Chatter publisher.
- forceCommunity
- Provides events that are handled by Communities.
- lightning
- Provides events that are handled by Lightning Experience, the Salesforce app, and Communities.
- ltng
- Provides events that send the record ID or generic message to another component.
- ui
- Provides events that are handled by the legacy ui components.
- wave
- Provides events that are handled by Analytics.
If you fire one of these force or
lightning events in your Lightning apps or components outside of
the Salesforce app or Lightning Experience:
- You must handle the event by using the <aura:handler> tag in the handling component.
- Use the <aura:registerEvent> or <aura:dependency> tags to ensure that the event is sent to the client, when needed.