The Component Builder allows you to build and customize Overcast Components using the Overcast Component Framework – a meta-data driven approach to building Salesforce Lightning Components for real-time connected systems.
The Overcast Component Builder is a point-and-click tool that makes it easy to build Overcast Components, i.e. Salesforce Lightning Components that read or write data for any backend system, giving your users access to all the company’s data and information they need all in one place – regardless in which system it resides in.
Besides the ability to build-your-own, when you edit a prebuilt Overcast Component from the Component Library, you’re brought into the Overcast Component Builder to manage the component’s settings. You can update the component’s inputs, filter values, fields, labels, navigation, and field behaviors.
Overcast Components are meta-data driven Lightning Components for the Salesforce mobile app and Salesforce Lightning Experience that are connected via an Overcast real-time Integration Scenario to a backend data source. Overcast Components are a non-coding approach to displaying and editing a third system’s data without having to copy the data to the Salesforce objects. In effect, it allows you to visualize any data in Salesforce while leaving the business logic and datastore in the connected system.
Overcast Components follow the Salesforce Lightning Design System but are optimized for complex business objects with complex header and item relationships. Here is a preview of Overcast Components built using the Overcast Component Builder:
Overcast Components are one way to connect external systems. They come with an enhancement concept that allows for business logic to be added in the form of Apex code and even allows you to replace parts of the UI with a custom-built Salesforce lightning component. They support complex business objects with headers and items that need to be processed in one go. Overcast Components can be used side-by-side with the traditional Salesforce UI technology.
The Overcast Component Builder is the visual development tool to build and configure Overcast Components against any backend system or against any API from middlewares such as Mulesoft. Building re-usable UI components for Salesforce has never been easier or faster.
Point & click configure Overcast Components while seeing a live preview of the SAP connected Lightning Component
Change icons and labels on the fly. Work with Salesforce custom labels to create fully translatable lightning components.
Connect multiple Overcast Component definitions into little mini-apps, e.g. “Widget” links to “List” links to “Detail” links to “Edit” or “New” screen
Add not only sections (e.g. “Header”, “Partners” or “Items”) and fields coming from the backend API but also custom sections and fields.
Data shown is filtered through parameters mapped from the context (e.g. if the Component is on the “Account” page, only show me data for the Account I am looking at). Alternatively, select the fields that the end user can use to provide filter criteria to the backend API.
Select which fields to display in which UI layout. Supported layouts are Salesforce Lightning Design System components such as Tile, List, Accordion, Toast, etc.
Dynamically pass Salesforce object or related object fields or other reference values to the Component
Change labels, select which fields to show where on the UI, decide if you want to show data as tiles or tables or add custom business logic in the form of Apex scripts within pre-determined Overcast Component Framework “extension points”.
While the visual UI development approach ensures fantastic development speed and ease-of-maintenance, the ability to seamlessly extend the metadata-driven Overcast Components with custom Lightning Components ensures you don’t ever have to make sacrifices in user experience.
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