Canvas Developer Guide

Introducing Canvas
Canvas Scenarios
Where Canvas Apps Appear
Supported Browsers
Supported Salesforce Editions
User Permissions Required
User Interface Considerations
Canvas App Process
Canvas Personal Apps
Quick Start
Quick Start—Advanced
Canvas SDK
Canvas Apps and Visualforce Pages
Lightning Component Code Examples
Canvas Apps in a Page Layout or a Mobile Card
Canvas Apps in the Publisher
Canvas Apps in the Chatter Feed
Canvas in the Salesforce Mobile App
Customizing Your App Lifecycle
Objects
Canvas Limits
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Note: This release is in preview. Features described here don’t become generally available until the latest general availability date that Salesforce announces for this release. Before then, and where features are noted as beta, pilot, or developer preview, we can’t guarantee general availability within any particular time frame or at all. Make your purchase decisions only on the basis of generally available products and features.

Canvas App Process

In the process of creating, publishing, installing, and running a canvas app, there are actions required by the developer, the administrator, and the user, as shown in the following diagram.

Canvas App Process Overview

Once the user is authenticated inside the Canvas app, the browser may restrict the app from receiving third-party cookies or using local storage. See Alternatives to Cookies for User Tracking.