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Overview of the Designer project types

Overview

Avonni Designer is a powerful tool that enables users to prototype Salesforce Lightning User Interface easily and efficiently. With Avonni Designer, users can create a range of projects that help them design, build, and test their Salesforce applications, including:

  1. Lightning Application - a project type that allows developers and designers to prototype Salesforce Lightning Applications quickly and easily.
  2. Lightning Dashboard - a project type that helps users prototype realistic Lightning Dashboards, allowing them to visualize their data and make better-informed decisions.
  3. Digital Experience website - a project type that enables users to prototype a Digital Experience website for their Salesforce platform, including access to Digital Experience components, creating multiple pages, adding global navigation, and customizing components styling.
  4. Import existing page from Salesforce - a project type that allows users to import an existing Salesforce page and customize it as per their needs.
  5. Creator prototype - a project type that enables users to create prototypes for their custom Salesforce objects and processes.

Please find more information about each project type below.

Designer projects types

Lightning Application project

Lightning Application project in Avonni Designer is a project type that allows you to create and prototype Salesforce Lightning Applications. It provides a set of pre-built components and templates that can be customized to suit the needs of the application being built. With Avonni Designer, you can easily prototype custom Lightning Components and Lightning Pages, and also test and preview your work in real-time.

The Lightning Application project type is a great choice for prototyping and developing complex Salesforce applications quickly and efficiently. It provides a powerful and flexible toolset that can help you build rich, interactive user interfaces, and also supports the creation of Lightning Web Components, allowing developers to easily leverage the latest web technologies in their Salesforce applications.

Choose this design type if you want to prototype an entire Lightning Application with access to the following features:

  1. Prototyping Lightning Pages
  2. Prototyping Actions and Global Actions
  3. Prototyping Utility Bar Items
  4. Prototyping List view pages
  5. Customizing a page layout
  6. Set Component visibility
  7. Prototyping Dashboards

Lightning Dashboard project

Creating a Lightning Dashboard project using Avonni Designer is an easy and intuitive process that helps users prototype realistic Lightning Dashboards for their Salesforce applications. The project type provides a set of pre-built components, including charts and graphs, that users can add to their dashboard to visualize their data. Users can add as many components as they want and easily resize, move, or delete them.

In addition, the Lightning Dashboard project type provides a real-time preview feature that allows users to see their dashboard in action as they build it. This helps users to quickly iterate on their designs and make changes as needed.

A Lightning Dashboard project using Avonni Designer is a powerful and efficient way to prototype realistic and interactive dashboards for Salesforce applications. It offers a range of features and customization options that help users bring their data to life and make better-informed decisions.

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Digital Experience project

Avonni Designer Digital Experience project is a project type designed for users who want to prototype a Digital Experience website. This project type provides access to a wide range of Digital Experience components that users can use to create multiple pages with different layouts and designs.

With Avonni Designer Digital Experience project, users can add global navigation to their website, making it easy for visitors to navigate from one page to another. Additionally, users can customize the styling of the components to match their brand's visual identity, including colors, fonts, and styles.

This project type in Avonni Designer also provides a real-time preview feature that allows users to see their website in action as they build it. This helps users to quickly iterate on their designs and make changes as needed, ensuring that the website looks and performs the way they want it to.

Select this project if you want to prototype a Digital Experience website with the following features:

  1. Access to the Digital Experience components
  2. Create multiple pages
  3. Add global navigation
  4. Customize components styling

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Import Lightning Pages

Select this project type if you want to start a Salesforce prototype by importing your existing Lightning Pages.

Creator project

Our legacy version of the Avonni prototyping tool. There is absolutely no constraint. It's a freestyle prototyping tool.

Importing Salesforce metadata is not available with Creator projects.

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