Salesforce Console Developer Guide

Salesforce Console Developer Guide
How are the Classic and Lightning APIs Different?
Lightning Experience API
Get to Know the Lightning Console
Get to Know the Utility Bar
Lightning Console JavaScript API Syntax
Using Background Utility Items
Using Pop-Out Utilities
Using Events in Lightning Console Apps
Using Page Context in the Utility Bar API
Using Page References to Open Console Workspace Tabs and Subtabs
Debugging
Methods for Lightning Experience
Events for Lightning Experience
Salesforce Classic API
Other Resources
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Get to Know the Utility Bar

The utility bar API includes a set of methods for working with utilities and the utility bar.

A utility is broadly defined as a single-column Lightning page. Salesforce provides you with several ready-to-use utilities, such as Recent Items, History, and Notes. You can also make your own, and customize the utility bar in Setup. From Setup, enter App Manager in the Quick Find box, then select App Manager. Either click New Lightning App to create an app, or click Edit next to an existing Lightning app to add a utility bar or edit the existing one.

To add a utility bar, add at least one utility item that isn’t a background utility item. To remove a utility bar, remove all non-background utility items from your app.

A guided tour of the utility bar.
  1. The utility bar. This utility bar includes four utilities: Chatter Feed, Quip, History, and Notes. Each utility has an icon and label.
  2. The selected utility.The selected utility opens in a panel
  3. The panel header, showing the panel icon and label