Getting Started with Salesforce Quick Action APIs – Part 2 (Automatically populate fields with custom data values)

This is the 2nd post on Salesforce Quick Action APIs - Part 2. For Part 1 Please refer to this link Getting Started with Quick Action APIs – Part 1

This Quick Action APIs – Part 2 where we will focus on how to set default values while calling a quick action so that some fields where data should come from the current custom screen will be auto-populated upon execution. 

Note: For Quick Action APIs to work the requested component should be present on the record current screen from where this action will invoke else system will through error ☹️

Below is simple Lightning Aura Component - Screen and ControllerJS

	<aura:component controller="QuickActionAPIScreenController" implements="force:appHostable,flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes,flexipage:availableForRecordHome,force:hasRecordId,forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes,force:lightningQuickAction" access="global" >
	<!-- Attribute defination -->
	<lightning:quickActionAPI aura:id="quickActionAPI" />
	<!-- Screen defination -->
	<div>
	<!- Add required screen components here..... -->
	</div>
	<br/>
	<div>
	<lightning:button label="Submit Quote" onclick="{!c.callCaseCloseAction}"/>
	</div>
	</aura:component>

view raw Part 1.1 - QuickActionAPIScreen.html hosted with ❤ by GitHub

	({
	callCaseCloseAction : function( component, event, helper ) {
	var actionAPI = component.find("quickActionAPI");
	var fields = {
	Status : {value : 'Closed'},
	Subject : { value : 'Case Ticket Resolved and Closed' },
	};
	var args = {actionName : "CloseCase",
	entityName : "Case",
	targetFields : fields };
	actionAPI.setActionFieldValues(args).then(function() {
	// Call this if you donot want any other User interaction. This will automatically Submit the action.
	actionAPI.invokeAction(args);
	}).catch(function(e) {
	console.log('Error upon calling Email Action: ', JSON.stringify(e));
	});
	},
	})

view raw Part 1.2 - QuickActionAPIController.js hosted with ❤ by GitHub

The key items are: 

• lightning:quickActionAPI - Used for including Quick Action API in a component
• setActionFieldValues - Promise function used for calling and setting default values. Here for setting values the syntax will be in this formate- field API name with a JSON object with the key will be "Value" and value will be either String or Array separated by a colon ":"