Events Handled in the Salesforce Mobile App and Lightning Experience

The Salesforce mobile app and Lightning Experience handle some events, which you can fire in your Aura component.

If you fire one of these force or lightning events in your Lightning apps or components outside of the Salesforce mobile 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.

Event Name	Description
`force:closeQuickAction`	Closes a quick action panel. Only one quick action panel can be open in the app at a time.
`force:createRecord`	Opens a page to create a record for the specified `entityApiName`, for example, “Account” or “myNamespace__MyObject__c”.
`force:editRecord`	Opens the page to edit the record specified by `recordId`.
`force:navigateToComponent` (Beta)	Navigates from one Aura component to another.
`force:navigateToList`	Navigates to the list view specified by `listViewId`.
`force:navigateToObjectHome`	Navigates to the object home specified by the `scope` attribute.
`force:navigateToRelatedList`	Navigates to the related list specified by `parentRecordId`.
`force:navigateToSObject`	Navigates to an sObject record specified by `recordId`.
`force:navigateToURL`	Navigates to the specified URL.
`force:recordSave`	Saves a record.
`force:recordSaveSuccess`	Indicates that the record has been successfully saved.
`force:refreshView`	Reloads the view.
`force:showToast`	Displays a toast notification with a message. (Not available on login pages.)
`lightning:openFiles`	Opens one or more file records from the ContentDocument and ContentHubItem objects.

Customizing Client-Side Logic for the Salesforce Mobile App, Lightning Experience, and Standalone Apps

Since the Salesforce mobile app and Lightning Experience automatically handle many events, you have to do extra work if your component runs in a standalone app. Instantiating the event using $A.get() can help you determine if your component is running within the Salesforce mobile app and Lightning Experience or a standalone app. For example, you want to display a toast when a component loads in the Salesforce mobile app and Lightning Experience. You can fire the force:showToast event and set its parameters for the Salesforce mobile app and Lightning Experience, but you have to create your own implementation for a standalone app.

1displayToast : function (component, event, helper) {
2    var toast = $A.get("e.force:showToast");
3    if (toast){
4        //fire the toast event in Salesforce app and Lightning Experience
5        toast.setParams({
6            "title": "Success!",
7            "message": "The component loaded successfully."
8        });
9        toast.fire();
10    } else {
11        //your toast implementation for a standalone app here
12    }
13}

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