An investigation into seeing if I can access the cool Navigator.share() API from within Salesforce Lightning.
We look at using Lightning Web Components, Aura Lightning Components, and Lightning Container Components... all in the name of trying to bring a nice "share" experience to mobile users.
Looked at creating a lightning component that could have gone onto a record page, and if this worked then we could have turned it into a quick action (could not be a LWC in this case).
sfdx force:project:create -n lwcWebShare --template standard
cd lwcWebShare
sfdx force:org:create -s -f config/project-scratch-def.json -a lwcWebShare --setdefaultusername
Enable the New Salesforce Mobile App (from setup)
Create new perm set with “New Mobile Salesforce App”, and assign to my user
sfdx force:user:password:generate -u lwcWebShare
.xml to expose for mobile form factor only
<targets>
<target>lightning__RecordPage</target>
</targets>
<targetConfigs>
<targetConfig targets="lightning__RecordPage">
<supportedFormFactors>
<supportedFormFactor type="Small" />
</supportedFormFactors>
</targetConfig>
</targetConfigs>
Otherwise “Unsupported form Factor”
Don’t think LWC can be a quick action - maybe wrap in Aura
For aura -need to set formfactor too…
<design:component >
<design:supportedFormFactors>
<design:supportedFormFactor type="Small"/>
</design:supportedFormFactors>
</design:component>
Even after setting this I had an error, but the component palette showed up as “mobile”
I have also set this to API 39 (API 47 blocks this, so confirms locker stops navigator access)
Boo!, I get this error; “DOMException: Must be handling a user gesture to perform a share request” → This is a restriction of webshare.
Can I call a .click on a button?
Weird, this error now goes away… running in the browser it works… running in app it now fails with “no navigator.share”.
navigator.vendor is there, just not navigator.share.
Maybe need to use a LCC?
Using LCC...
Could not use <input type="button" onclick="handleClick()" value="Click me" /> due to inline event handler
Now using document.getElementById("btnWebShare").onclick = handleClick;
Works in SF1 browser
Still does not work in App.
Used LCC.onlineSupport.sendMessage("containerUserMessage", {payload: m}); and lightning aura toast to see what was going on.
Still no navigator.share :/