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Search Box for Picklist Value Selection

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🔎Salesforce - Search Box for Picklist Value Selection If you've ever worked with long picklists in Salesforce—think 100+ country names, product types, or status codes—you’ve probably heard your users grumble: "Why can’t I just search this thing?" Good news: with this LWC trick, you can add search functionality to those clunky picklists and make your UX sparkle. 🧭 The Problem with Native Picklists Salesforce’s standard picklists are... functional. But once the list gets long, scrolling becomes tedious. Users waste time hunting for the right value—and heaven help them if the list isn't alphabetized. Native picklists in Lightning don’t come with a search box out of the box, leaving many admins wondering how to bridge the gap between form and function. 💡 Use these Lightning Web Components (LWC)! I developed these two LWC that solve the problem: myPicklist : the picklist with the searchbox. myPicklistForm : the LWC to add to the Lightning Layout, you can add severa...

Salesforce - A simple Help system using Lightning Web Components LWC

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 A simple Help system using Lightning Web Components LWC There are ways to offer custom help to your users in the standar, like, for instance, Help & Training (where you can add links to documents). See  Customize the Help Menu in Lightning Experience . Or the In-App Guidance , where you can create Prompts and Walkthroughs that will show help, but very limited and only a few times (you can have only a few by default, unless you pay to have more). Or you can pay for your own Trailhead with myTrailhead . For the first two, you are already paying with your licenses, but most of the time are not enough to keep the documentation of your system.  A "help system" should have an index (table of content), and open the specific section/document from it (see the Salesforce Help system, for example, clicking on the previous links). This is the main objetive of my solution here. myTrailhead is the best standard option, but it cost. Then ...  How can we have a simple and low c...