A common use case
Lightning Data Service is a great tool allowing you to use the same cache as Lightning Experience, bringing better performances and less code to write.
Using Lightning Base Components like lightning-record-form or using out-of-the-box getRecord or createRecord methods will make record editing much easier. Thanks to the shared cache from Lightning Data Service, updating a record from your custom component will automatically update the standard record page, and vice versa.
Still, you’ll most likely end up at some point using Apex, if your use case is a little bit more complex than that, for instance involving a web service or multi-record editing. …
This is a two parts blog series: Part 1 is focused on a simple command to export/import data, while Part 2 handles with more advanced use cases.
Limitations
Having an easy to use command to export/import data is nice, but at some point you may be stuck with more complex use cases.
This happened to me with a quite basic one though. The command described in the first part of this blog post series (see here if you haven’t read it) was intended to be as easy to use as possible. …
This is a two parts blog series: Part 1 is focused on a simple command to export/import data, while Part 2 handles with more advanced use cases.
Every time I begin a new project for a customer and that we start talking about using Scratch Orgs, one of the question that keeps coming up is “How do I load data ?”.
What’s already available
The Salesforce CLI comes with a nice set of commands to export data, sfdx force:data:tree:export and its counterpart to importsfdx force:data:tree:import. …
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