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- 1. Apex Connector for Lightning Connect: Make Anything a Salesforce object Agustina García Peralta Principal Developer on Platform Strategy agarcia@financialforce.com @agarciaodeian
- 2. Agustina García Peralta Principal Developer, Platform Strategy FinancialForce.com @agarciaodeian
- 3. About GREAT ALONE. BETTER TOGETHER. • Native to Salesforce App Cloud since 2009 • Investors include Salesforce Ventures • Customers in 27 countries • 650+ employees, San Francisco based • Dreamforce.FinancialForce.com
- 4. Agenda • What is Apex Connector • What is Lightning Connect Demo • Apex Connector for Lightning Connect – All in Apex • Use Cases & Demos • Limitations • Take away • Q&A
- 5. • What is Apex Connector? It is a new Framework • Where can we use it? Lightning Connect What is Apex Connector? All in Apex
- 6. • Lightning Group feature • Platform Connect, External Data Source, External Objects • GA Winter ‘15 • Link an External repository with your Salesforce organization • It is not an ETL (Extract – Transform – Load) • Data Loader, JitterBit Data Loader What is Lightning Connect?
- 7. Use Case – For Dreaming Store In the seventies a store opened in my neighborhood At the beginning, it only sold But after some time, it started selling , And nowadays also
- 8. Use Case – For Dreaming Store was done in paper But the latest owner moved to and
- 9. Use Case – For Dreaming Store
- 10. Demo
- 11. How is it developed?
- 12. How is it developed?
- 13. • Apex Connector Framework • GA Summer ‘15 • Framework • All in Apex!! • How to use it? • Class1 Extends DataSource.Provider • Class2 Extends DataSource.Connection Apex Connector for Lightning Connect
- 14. Use Case – Hello World
- 15. Hello World – Connector Class It can be global
- 16. Hello World – Connector Class
- 17. Hello World – Connector Class Open a single record Open List View Do I need any filter?
- 18. Hello World – Connector Class
- 19. Hello World – Provider Class It can be global
- 20. Demo
- 21. Hello World – External Data Source
- 22. Hello World – External Object
- 23. Use Case – For Dreaming Store
- 24. Use Case – For Dreaming Store
- 25. Use Case – For Dreaming Store
- 26. Demo
- 27. For Dreaming Store – Provider Class
- 28. For Dreaming Store – Connector Class
- 29. For Dreaming Store – Connector Class
- 30. For Dreaming Store – Connector Class
- 31. For Dreaming Store – Connector Class
- 32. For Dreaming Store – Read Google sheet
- 33. For Dreaming Store – Read Google sheet
- 34. For Dreaming Store – Unit Test Add a filter
- 35. • Allow you to read information on your org and show as external object • Create a connection to another org Apex Connector – Anything else?
- 36. • Fields • Double value lose precision beyond 10 significant digits • String length is greater than 255, field is mapped to a long text area field • Doesn’t provide Master – Detail • Workaround with Indirect Lookup and External Lookup • Subject to same limits • Apex Governor limits • Apex Callouts aren’t allow after DML soft limit Apex Connector - Limits
- 37. • Lightning Connect allows your to link information of an external repository to your org • How to create the connection? • OData provider • Create your own one OData, Java … • Apex Connector Framework !! – All in Apex • A Provider class • A Connection class • Unit Tests • External Objects work as Custom one • Create buttons and code behind the scene to use them Take away as Developer
- 38. • Configuration with #clicksnotcode • Real Time refresh • It doesn’t count against storage limit Take away as End User
- 39. Q&A
- 40. • http://goo.gl/RQRu8y • http://goo.gl/f4G7Rd • http://goo.gl/Rtv4zw • Do you want more? • Lightning Connect Custom Adapters: Connecting Anything with Salesforce • Thursday at 2.45pm Moscone West 2009 Links and more Agustina García Peralta agarcia@financialforce.com @agarciaodeian www.agarciaodeian.com http://www.meetup.com/es/Spain-Salesforce-Developer-User-Group/ HelloWorld Apex Connector code https://goo.gl/VEEO0s
- 41. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- First, a few quick words about FinancialForce.com. FinancialForce.com builds ERP apps that are native to the Salesforce App cloud including Accounting, professional services automation, Human resources and Inventory applications. Our apps can be subscribed to separately or part of a whole ERP family. Our company investors include Salesforce Ventures, which made their original investment in us in 2009. We have customers all around the world in 27 countries and over 650 employees including those at our headquarters on 595 Market St. here in San Francisco. We have quite few sessions and parties planned here this week, you can learn more about those at Dreamforce.Financialforce.com. Feel free to join us.