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Salesforce World TourLondon May 21, 2015
Agustina GarcíaPrincipal Developer, Platform Strategy
@agarciaodeian
agarciaodeian.com
Speaker
About FinancialForce
• Unit4 group• Native on the Salesforce1 platform• FFA (Accounting)• HCM (Human Resources)• PSA (Projects Management)• SCM (Manufacturing)
• HQ San Francisco; Development teams in US, UK and Spain (550 employees)
Agenda
• What is Lightning Connect• Use Case• Demo• How to work with it• More information• Q&A
Lightning Connect – What is it?
• Lightning group feature– Platform Connect, External Data Source, External Objects
• Link an external repository with your Salesforce org #clicksnotcode
• It is not an ETL (Extract – Transform – Load)– DataLoader, JitterBit Data Loader …
Use Case
Use Case
Data Import Wizard1. Create Custom object and / or fields2. Save excel data as csv file3. Launch Import Wizard
1. Choose data1. What do I want? Create,
Update …2. Select csv file
2. Editing mapping3. Start Import
COUNT AGAINST STORAGE LIMIT
Lightning Connect1. Create connection2. Synchronize metadata3. Create a Tab4. Refresh list view
DO NOT COUNT AGAINST STORAGE LIMIT
VS
Demo
Lightning Connect – How it works
External Repositories
others
Lightning Connect
Salesforce
External Object
External Object
External Data Source
External Object
External Data Source
OData providers
• We already have some: • Create your custom OData– IE. Java + odata4j +
Google API
• Create your custom Connector– Apex Connector GA
Summer ‘15
External Data Source
Expenses External Object
Expenses External Object
External Objects – New lookup fields
• External Lookup– Link 2 external objects
• Indirect Lookup– Link an external object to a Standard or Custom object
As a developer - Customization
Code – Visualforce
Code – Controller
Highlight
• As a developer:– Limits:
• 100 external objects per org• Callouts soft limit can be increased• Read Only for now (safe harbor)• Customizations: usual limitations (governor limits …)• Doesn’t support Master- Detail
– Configuration with #clicksnotcode– Real Time Refresh without effort– It does not count against storage limit
Useful Links
• Lightning• Trailhead:
– All Lightning• Dreamforce ‘14 – Magical External Objects• https://developer.salesforce.com/
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Agustina GarcíaPrincipal Developer, Platform Strategy
@agarciaodeian
agarciaodeian.com
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