- The document summarizes a Salesforce World Tour presentation about Lightning Connect, which allows linking external data repositories to a Salesforce org without code through external objects. - A demo showed creating an external data connection to an Excel file, then viewing and refreshing the external object's data in Salesforce. - As a developer, customizations can be made through Visualforce and Apex, but Lightning Connect currently only supports read-only access and has some limits on the number of external objects and callouts allowed.

1. Salesforce World Tour
London May 21, 2015

2. Agustina García
Principal Developer, Platform Strategy
agarcia@financialforce.com
@agarciaodeian
agarciaodeian.com
Speaker

3. 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)

4. Agenda
• What is Lightning Connect
• Use Case
• Demo
• How to work with it
• More information
• Q&A

5. 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 …

6. Use Case

7. Use Case
Data Import Wizard
1. Create Custom object and / or fields
2. Save excel data as csv file
3. Launch Import Wizard
1. Choose data
1. What do I want? Create,
Update …
2. Select csv file
2. Editing mapping
3. Start Import
COUNT AGAINST
STORAGE LIMIT
Lightning Connect
1. Create connection
2. Synchronize metadata
3. Create a Tab
4. Refresh list view
DO NOT COUNT AGAINST
STORAGE LIMIT
VS

8. Demo

9. Lightning Connect – How it works
External Repositories
Lightning Connect
Salesforce
External Object
External Object
External Data Source
External Object
External Data Source

10. OData providers
• We already have some: • Create your custom OData
– IE. Java + odata4j +
Google API
• Create your custom Connector
– Apex Connector  GA
Summer ‘15

11. External Data Source

12. Expenses External Object

13. Expenses External Object

14. External Objects – New lookup fields
• External Lookup
– Link 2 external objects
• Indirect Lookup
– Link an external object to a Standard or Custom object

15. As a developer - Customization

16. Code – Visualforce

17. Code – Controller

18. 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

19. Useful Links
• Lightning
• Trailhead:
– All Lightning
• Dreamforce ‘14 – Magical External Objects
• https://developer.salesforce.com/

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22. Agustina García
Principal Developer, Platform Strategy
agarcia@financialforce.com
@agarciaodeian
agarciaodeian.com
Q&A

23. Thank you