1.
Build Admin Friendly
Custom User
Interfaces Using
Salesforce UI API
- Rahul Malhotra

2.
About Me
• Software Engineer Trainee and a part of Center Of
Excellence team at SaaSfocus
• Independent Salesforce Consultant
• Blogger and YouTuber at SFDC Stop

3.
Today’s Agenda
• Introduction to User Interface API
• UI API - Features
• Elements of UI API
• Live Demo – User Interface API Implementation
• Considerations for UI API
• Available Resources to learn UI API
• Q & A

4.
User Interface API – An Introduction
• Salesforce Developers needed a new API to build Lightning
Experience
• It came up with UI API which consists of the layout, metadata
and record data altogether to build custom and dynamic UI
• With UI API - you don’t have to take care about field level
security, sharing rules, layouts and even picklists.

5.
Features of UI API
• UI API provides you the record information along with the
layout information
• It also provides you the data and metadata about the actions
implemented in the UI like:- Standard and Custom Buttons,
Quick Actions etc.
• You can perform CRUD operation on records with UI API
• It also gives you the information about list views as well as
makes it easier to render dependent and independent picklists

6.
Elements of UI API
• Records
• Layouts
• List Views
• Actions
• Favorites
• Lookups
• Active Theme

7.
It’s Time To Code

8.
Considerations for UI API
• List of Supported Objects:-
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-
us.uiapi.meta/uiapi/ui_api_get_started_supported_objects.htm
• UI API uses the Salesforce API Limits. If the limit is exceeded, you’ll
receive 503 Service Unavailable Error
• To access salesforce resources, we have to add our custom host to
CORS in Salesforce so that the requests are permitted
• If you are building lightning components don’t use UI API, use
Lightning Data Service instead

9.
Resources
• Salesforce Official Documentation:-
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-
us.uiapi.meta/uiapi/ui_api_get_started.htm
• Trailhead:- https://trailhead.salesforce.com/modules/user-
interface-api
• SFDC Stop:-
https://sfdcstop.blogspot.com/2018/05/salesforceuiapi.html

10.
Q & A

11.
Thank You
• GitHub Repository Link:-
https://github.com/rahulmalhotra/SalesforceUIApi
• My Twitter Handle:- @rahulcoder
• Blog:- https://sfdcstop.blogspot.com
• YouTube Channel:- https://www.youtube.com/c/SFDCStop
• Salesforce Chatter:- http://bit.ly/rahulforce