Overview
Button Groups organize multiple buttons into a single unit, presenting them in a neatly arranged horizontal series. This grouping includes various button styles, such as basic buttons, icon-based buttons, and other design variations.
Buttons are essential interactive elements in the user interface, designed to trigger specific actions when clicked by the user. They facilitate various functions, such as submitting forms, navigating between pages, or executing commands.
For example, In a Salesforce custom application for managing customer support tickets, you might use a Button Group on the ticket detail page to streamline common actions. This Button Group could include custom buttons like "Assign to Me," "Escalate," and "Add Comment."
Assign to Me: Allows a support agent to quickly take ownership of the ticket.
Escalate: Moves the ticket to a higher priority or another support level.
Add Comment: Lets the agent add notes or updates to the ticket.
Attributes:
Attributes are the options available for each component, allowing you to customize its appearance and functionality. They help you tailor the look and behavior of your components to fit your needs.
Basic
Attribute Name | Description |
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Actions |
Note: After creating the action, it will be displayed on the canvas. Reference: Button Action |
Overflow After | This feature allows you to control the number of actions displayed. Setting the limit to 1 will show only one action, with additional actions appearing in a drop-down menu. |
Alignment | Here, you can adjust the button alignment.
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UI Attributes:
Attribute Group | Attribute Name | Description |
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UI | Component Size |
Note: Currently, we support Component Size 1 for Section. All other sizes will throw an error alert displaying Max allowed value is 1. |
Margin Location | "Margin Location" refers to the spacing around the outside edge of an Button | |
Margin Size | "Margin Size" refers to the amount of space around the outside edges of an element. | |
Style |
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Classes | It is used to apply SLDS classes to section, if needed. |
Visibility and Components:
Attribute Group | Attribute Name | Description |
Visibility | Visibility Type | It determines whether a component is visible on the layout. It offers the following visibility types:
Reference: Conditional visibility |
Component | Component Label | It simply shows the name of the component. |
Button Action:
Attributes | Description |
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Label | A Label is the name shown to users and can come from various sources. Reference: Label Source Type |
Name | Enter a unique the name for your action. |
Icon | This option lets you choose from various icons to add to the action button. |
Variant | This feature allows users to change the appearance of the action button.
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Visibility Type | It determines whether a component is visible on the layout. It offers the following visibility types:
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Disability Type | It determines whether a component is disable on the layout. It offers the following visibility types:
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Label Source Type:
Attribute | Description |
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Model (Salesforce Object) | From this source, users can select a Model (Salesforce Object) field to be displayed as the label name. |
Variable | Here, users can select the label name from variables such as Record ID, Is Disabled, Is Read only, or Is Visible. |
Cookie Key | Choose the available cookie key whose value you want to include from your browser. |
Local Storage Key | Select the available Local Storage Key whose value you want to include from your browser. |
User | Here, you can choose the label from user fields such as First Name, Last Name, Email, Name, Phone, or Session ID. |
Merge Field Expression | Merge Field Expression displays the value selected from the chosen value source. |
Message Body | Inside the message body, user also can add the values manually. |
Conditional Visibility Type:
Attributes Name | Description |
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Destination Type | Users can select the destination type where the visibility criteria must be applied. Reference: Destination Type |
Operator | Here, users can select different operators to add filters. Reference: Filter Operator. |
Source Type | Here, you can select the source type from various sources. |
Value | Here user can select the value from different Source Type. Reference: Merge Text |
Destination Type
Destination Type | Description |
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Model | From this source, users can select a Model field to be displayed as the destination type. |
Variable | Here, users can select the destination type from variables such as Record ID, Is Disabled, Is Read only, or Is Visible. |
User | Here, you can choose the label from user fields such as First Name, Last Name, Email, Name, Phone, or Session ID. |
Record | It enables to choose record fields as destination type. |
Device | It enables user to decide whether the action will be visible on the specific device type or not. Devices supported:
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Conditional Disability Type:
Attributes Name | Description |
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Destination Type | Users can select the destination type from various sources. Reference: Destination Type |
Operator | Here, users can select different operators to add filters. Reference: Filter Operator. |
Source Type | Here, you can select the source type from various sources. |
Value | Here user can select the value from different Source Type. Reference: Merge Text |
Conditional Read Only:
Attribute Name | Description |
Read Only Type | It specifies whether a component can be edited by users. It offers the following options:
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Add Condition & Group Condition
Condition | Description |
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Add Condition |
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Add Group Condition |
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Filter Operator:
Note: Before using the filter criteria, it's important to understand which filter operators are supported for each field type
Filters Attributes:
Filter Operators
Operator | Supported Field Types | Description |
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Equal | Number, Currency, Date, Text, Boolean, Picklist | The equal operator is used to compare two values or expressions. It is used to compare numbers, strings, Boolean values, variables, objects, etc. The result is TRUE if the expressions are equal otherwise it’s FALSE |
Contains | Text, Picklist | The contains operator returns TRUE if the value on the left contains the value on the right, and otherwise FALSE |
Starts With | Text, Picklist | It returns TRUE if a string or number starts with the specified character otherwise it returns FALSE. |
Ends With | Text, Picklist | It returns TRUE if a string or number ends with the specified character otherwise it returns FALSE |
In | Text, Picklist | IN operator allows you to easily test if the expression matches any value in the list of values. Determines whether the value of an expression is equal to any of several values in a specified list. |
Events:
Events are essentially the automation of invoking the component's actions.
Here, only onload event actions are available for this components.
In the image below, you can select the created workflows.
Note: "You need to create a workflow for selecting from this list.
For more information about Workflow check this out.
Reference: Workflow
Onload Event:
We have an onload event that runs when the component is loaded
For example, when a form is loaded, you can choose fields to be prepopulated by mapping field values using input mapping at the time the form component is loaded.
Input Mapping
Input Mapping: Whenever an event is triggered and you want to pass data to destinations such as models, variables, or components, you can use input mapping to achieve that.
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