Introducing Lightning Record Picker: A New Era of Record Selection
Have you ever struggled to build your own custom component for finding and selecting Salesforce records? The Winter '24 release of Salesforce introduced the lightning-record-picker component, a much-anticipated addition to the Lightning Web Components (LWC) toolkit. This new component addresses a longstanding challenge faced by LWC developers: the lack of a straightforward and user-friendly way to incorporate record selection functionality into their components. The lightning-record-picker component allows you to search for a list of Salesforce Records that match search input. It uses the GraphQL wire adapter to search for records, displays the records, and allows the user to select a record. The lightning-record-picker will be Generally Available (GA) in Spring ’24. In this post, let’s see how to use lightning-record-picker in your custom LWC components. Implementing Lightning Record Picker lightningRecordPicker.html <template> <lightning-card title="Lightni