Evm Simple Toast Message

On this tutorial we will show how to add a Salesforce Toast Message into a Salesforce Record Page. We will also talk about how the component works and its limits.

Evm Simple Toast Message is a salesforce lightning component that uses VueJS and JavaScript and Salesforce function to show a Toast message.

You can install EvoluteMessage App from the Salesforce AppExchange. All of Our Price Plans include this message for Free and with no limits. So we recommend you install and use the Freemium Plan, which is free and you will have access to this message and more.

Here is an example on how the Salesforce Evm Simple Toast Message looks:

Permissions and Security:

Evm Simple Toast Message like and Evm Simple Modal Message, doesn't require you to add any Permission Set to each end-user. This is not required because the message that you configured stays in the component itself, which you have dragged in your Lightning Page, and nothing is saved in any object.

All the content of the Message is set by you and all the information stays in your org, nothing goes outside and we don't collect any information from your page.

How it works

Evm Toast Simple Message uses Salesforce "e.force:showToast" to display the message into your Lightning Page, which doesn't accept any HTML Code into the text. So you will need to add only text into the message.

If you need to use any HTML Tag like bold, Italic or links, you can use the Evm Advanced Message.

The steps to add a message into your lightning Page is very simple:

1. Download the EvoluteMessage App into your Org from the Salesforce AppExchange.

2. Once installed, go to your Lightning Page where you want to add the message and search for Evm in the list of Components.

3. Drag and Drop the Evm Simple Toast Message into your page.

4. Click on the component that you dropped, which will open some configuration.

5. Configure the text that you want to show and other options.

6. Save your Lightning Page and load your page. The Evm Simple Message loads only outside of the Lightning Builder Page. Salesforce does not render the message on Lightning Builder Page, which is different behavior than Advanced Message. If you are using that into Digital Experience, than Salesforce loads the message right away.

Below is a video on how to add a Salesforce Toast Message into a Lightning Record Page.

Limits

Here are some limits that the Evm Simple Toast Message has:

Limit #1 - It doesn't load HTML Tag into the text as links, bold, italic, images, etc...

Workaround: You can use the Evm Advanced Message, which has a Toast Message Style.

Limit #2 - If you need more advanced filters to show or hide your message, the only available filter is the Salesforce out of the box "Set Component Visibility".

Workaround: If you need more criteria or advanced filters, you will need to use the Evm Advanced Message, or use a custom field and use flow to set that field, so you can use that new field into the Component Visibility.

Limit #3 - You cannot Prefill data from the Page or any record into your message.

Workaround: This feature is available only in Evm Advanced Message, which you can get records from the current page or from any objects.

Limit #4 - The Evm Simple Toast message does not load in Lightning Builder Pages. When you add the message into a Lightning Page, we will not show the message on the Builder of that Page, but on live page we do show the message. This happens because we use Salesforce Engine to render the message and that doesn't work in the Builder.

Workaround: This option is available in the Evm Advanced Message.

Ideal Scenarios

Here are some scenarios that we see our customers using this a lot.

- Simple text notification to show for end-user all the time

- Simple rule to show the message using Salesforce out of the box Visibility

- Show toast message when a field value on the same record page has changed

- Show toast message all the time if the user access a home page

- Show toast message with formula field to show when a specific value is changed