For example, if you want to display the records associated with Opportunity object, select opportunity.

Select the object whose record will be displayed.

Navigate to the Lightning App Builder, as mentioned in the last section.

The record page can be completely customized and assigned to different users. This will help to develop a more curated and customized view of the records associated with each object. The Lightning app builder can be used for adding components, removing components, and reorder them on a record page. The page will be saved, and it will prompt to activate for specific users. Components can be dragged and positioned on the page accordingly. From the components, different components can be added to the home page, along with custom components.

Now we will have an empty home page, which is ready for the developer to be built.

Give a name to your homepage, select a template for the homepage.

On the lightning app builder page, click on New – Home Page, and the Next.

Then type “ Lightning App Builder” from the quick find box.

Edit a homepage that already exists on the lightning appįor the first options, steps are given below:.

Creating from scratch (with the help of template).

These pages are supported in both the environments, that is the lightning experience platform and the Salesforce Mobile platform.

Record Page: With the record page, a customized page for the object’s record page can be created.

These pages are supported only on the lightning experience platform.

The customized pages can be assigned to selected apps. Home Page: This option allows the creation of a custom homepage, that is meant for a specific group of users.This can be directly integrated into the Salesforce mobile platform and also into the navigation menus for the Lightning Experience. App Page: This option is used for creating a home page for a 3rd party app.Different Types of Lightning pagesĭifferent types of app pages can be a developer with the Lightning app builder. The tools required for building the foundation is available in the components pane. There are five different components as labeled on the user interface.Ĭanvas is the place, where the app is built, while page properties are shown in the properties pane. The different sections for the Lightning App Builder (UI) is shown below. Third-Party Components: These are the apps listed on the AppExchange, and can be imported into Salesforce.Custom Components: These are the components created by the developers, other than salesforce.Standard Components: These are the components that are built by Salesforce.There are three types of lighting components: These are the components that are compact and can be easily configured. A brief demonstration of the same is shown below,

However, the template divides the page into two regions, while the second region might be divided into two regions based on the device on which the page will be displayed. This is dependent on the template chosen for creating the page. The best thing about the lightning page is, it adapts itself to the devices on which the page is viewed. In all, a lightning page provides a higher level of customization at a shorter period. Customized homepages (Customized components and features).Custom record pages (Record pages for the object, customization as per the user requirements).Point Apps (Apps that is created for solving a particular task).

Dashboard Style apps (Dashboard for displaying information from different sources).

Create Single Page apps (Standard Pages ).

Right from app branding, app navigation to setting app options. There are many more things that can be done with the help of this tool. The app settings can be managed from the lightning app builder. I can create custom pages in a few minutes, for both the lightning experience, as well as the mobile experience. The lightning app builder is a typical “ point and clicks” tool. Lightning App builder can be used for customizing pages both on desktop deployments and mobile deployments as well.

This can be done with the Lightning App Builder. Lightning pages on Salesforce are nothing but a collection of different lightning components, that are located on the different regions of the page. We can adopt two different approaches in this case for customization. This is where Salesforce is different from the standard offerings. Any object record page in Salesforce can be completely customized and personalized using the page layouts.

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