Product showcase

Learn the basics of the Avonni Flow Screen Components library with this example.

Overview

This tutorial requires installing the Avonni Flow Screen Components managed package on your Salesforce org.

This Product Showcase tutorial is a guide on how to build a product showcase component that displays a list of products using the Avonni Carousel flow screen component.

Objective

This tutorial aims to teach you how to build a product showcase component that displays a list of products and allows end-users to view product details when they click on a product.

Key Components

The tutorial covers using the Avonni Header and Carousel screen components, which is essential in creating a product showcase component that is visually appealing and functional.

Step-by-Step Guide

The tutorial is structured in a step-by-step format, making it easy for individuals to follow and understand. It walks the user through building a product showcase component, providing clear instructions and tutorials.

Final Result

What you'll learn

Steps

The steps to build a products carousel components are as follows:

1. Create a Screen Flow

Go to your Salesforce setup page
Type "Flows" in the search bar and click on Flows under "Process Automation"
Click on the "New Flow" button to create a flow
Select "Screen Flow" and click Create.

2. Create a Get Records collection

The very first step starts with creating our Get Records collection to ask Flow Builder to fetch all the Product records by following the below steps:

Add a Get Records element to fetch product records
Enter a collection Label > GetProducts
Select the Product Object
Select "None - Get all Task Records" in the condition requirements field
Select "All Records" regarding the number of records to display
Click "Done"

3. Add our first screen element

The very first step starts with creating our Get Records collection to ask Flow Builder to fetch all the Task records by following the below steps:

Add a screen element
Enter a Label: Screen 1
Click on the Configure Header section and uncheck "Show Header"
Click on the Configure Footer section and uncheck "Show Footer"

4. Add the Header component

Drag the Header component from the components list to your screen flow (the Header Component is located under the custom section)
Enter an API Name. For example, showcaseHeader.

5. Configure the Header

General settings

Click on the Open Component Builder button to access all the settings for the Header component
Enter a header title (e.g: Products catalog)
Enter a header caption (e.g: Showcase)
Toggle "Is Joined" and "Pull to Boundary" to make our header component more appealing.
Expand the Avatar Section
Select an icon (standard:products) to add an icon next to the title and caption text.
Set the size to Medium

Adding an action

Actions enable users to trigger an interaction. Here we will add a new button to let users create a new product.

Expand the Actions section
Click on the "Add Actions" button
Enter a label: "New"

Create the interaction on the New button action

Here we are going to create a button to let users create new product

Click on the Interactions tab.
Click on the "Add Action Click" to create our interaction
Select a target name: "New"
Select Navigate as Type
Select Object Page as Page Reference Type
Select the Product object as the Object API Name
Select New as Action Name.
Click on Save.

Configure Header component styling settings

Click on the Style tab.
Open the Background Section to set the Header Background color to: #032d60
Open the Title and Caption section to set the color to white: #ffffff
Click on Done.

6. Add the Carousel component

Under the Header component, we will drag the Carousel component, the second part of our product showcase component.

Drag the Carousel component from the components list to our screen flow (the Carousel component is located under the custom section)
Enter an API Name. For example, carouselProducts.

7. Configure the Carousel

General settings

Click on the Open Component Builder button to access all the settings for the Carousel component
Set the Items per panel to 2 (same for Small, Medium and Large)
Expand the Data Source section and select Variable

Configure Data Mapping

First, let's select our source collection, the one created in Step 2 > GetProducts

Now we can link fields from our source collection to attributes from the Carousel element. The following fields can be associated to the following attributes:

Title => Product Name
Description => Product Description
Image Source => Display URL
Name => Product ID

Create an interaction on Item Click

We just completed the data mapping to map fields with carousel attributes. Now, we can create an interaction to define the action when users click on a Carousel item.

Click on the Interactions tab
Type => Flow Navigation
Type => Next Screen

8. Create a second Get Records collection

To display only the information about the product that was clicked, we need to create a new collection called "Get Records" and use it to filter the products. This will ensure that only the information about the selected product is displayed to the user, making it easier for them to find the information they need.

Add a Get Records element to fetch Product data
Enter a collection Label
Add the Product Object
Select "All conditions are met" in the condition requirements field
Add Id equals carousel > Clicked Item name
For the "How Many Records to Store" > Select Only the first record
Click "Done"

9. Add the second screen element

Now we are going to add a second screen element after our previous Get Record collection created by following the steps:

Add a screen element
Enter a Label: Screen 2
Click on the Configure Header section and uncheck "Show Header"
Click on the Configure Footer section and uncheck "Show Footer"

10. Add screen components on our Screen 2 element

Add a back button

Drag an Avonni button element
Add a button label "<< Back"
Set the variant to Neutral
Click on the Interactions tab
Select the Flow Navigation type and Previous Screen.

Add product information description.

You can add a Display text element or an image to display information about the selected product.
In the Insert a resource field, select the variable created in Step 8 and add the field information that needs to be displayed.

Troubleshooting

The click on a product item is not working > When mapping your data source, make sure to fill in the "Name" attribute. This is an important step to ensure that your data is correctly mapped and can be easily accessed and used.
My product image is not displayed > make sure to have a product image (or URL) in the corresponding field.

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